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    By Edna Buchanan

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    With the perfect wife, two beautiful daughters and a successful business, Frank Douglas had everything to live for. But someone else had to die first.

    If Daniel Alexander had not committed suicide, Frank Douglas would never have lived to see his forty-fifth birthday. Alexander's heart now beats strong and sure in Douglas's chest. The donated organ has given the successful Miami businessman a second chance but it gives him no peace.

    Disturbed by nagging feelings of guilt and uncertainty, Frank sets out to discover all he can about the benefactor whose death gave him life. His search leads him to Rory Alexander--Daniel's beautiful, enigmatic wife-and to troubling questions and shocking revelations about the late man's affairs. Why, for example, have the profits from Alexander's seemingly successful business ventures mysteriously vanished? And why is Rory so unshakably certain that her husband was murdered?

    A numbers man, Frank Douglas needs to have the figures add up--and that need is drawing him and a seductive, distraught widow across the length of a nation, and deep into something corrupt and twisted and deadly. And suddenly the new life he was granted is in serious peril, threatened by secrets, lies, human savagery and greed. . .and by the true dark nature of the heart that is now pumping the lifeblood through his body.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 23, 2010
    ISBN9780061957710
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    Edna Buchanan

    Edna Buchanan worked The Miami Herald police beat for eighteen years, during which she won scores of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the George Polk Award for Career Achievement in Journalism. Edna attracted international acclaim for her classic true-crime memoirs, The Corpse Has a Familiar Face and Never Let Them See You Cry. Her first novel of suspense, Nobody Lives Forever, was nominated for an Edgar Award.

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    • 3/5
      This is the first Edna Buchanan book I've read, and I have a soft spot for writers/novelists who are journalists, and characters who are involved in the media, being a journalism graduate myself although that was 2 years ago. I got a hardbound bargain in a bookstore and when I saw the cover, I felt compelled to pick it up and buy it, like it wanted to be bought, flipped open, and read. As an avid reader of mystery/suspense/thriller novels, this I couldn't put down. It has unexpected twists and turns and seriously made me palpitate. The writer's imagination is a breath of fresh air, and I found myself involved with the characters - feel sorry for them, hate them, question them, and try to imagine myself in their shoes. This book is too good to put down, no side stories, no unnecessary flashbacks, and I read it in one sitting, maybe you will too. The characters aren't really complex, they're just your day-to-day John/Jane Does, which is why it's easy to place your self with them. Nothing supernatural here, and there's sex, lies, and family values. I know, not a good combination, especially in a sentence. The writer illustrates scenes and they are pieces to a puzzle, which the characters put together to make a big picture out of them. In a nutshell, this book contains the formula of an effective suspense/mystery novel: deception. You think you know it, but you don't unless it's right in front of you.
    • 3/5
      Buchanan is a talented storyteller and she knows how to build suspense. This is a stand-alone work. Frank Douglas receives a donor heart and is regaining his health when he starts to have odd dreams. When he acts on his compulsion to find and meet the donor's family, his own family life suffers.