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Author French's Book Reviews

Beneath the Skin
There are three women with no apparent connections. One man is emotionally tormenting them all, bringing them together. And though each disregards the threats initially, the continuing increase in the number and maliciousness of the threats has them looking at everyone they know as the potential stalker....
Killing Me Softly (Romance)
Alice is content with her life. She is living with Jake, an old friend turned lover, and working for a big pharmaceutical company. Then she unexpectedly meets a mesmerizing stranger on the street near her office. They begin an intense affair in which neither wants to be without the other. Alice then leaves not only Jake, but their group of friends with whom she grew up, to move in with Adam. Now Adam is her whole life, except for her not-so-great ...
Killing Me Softly (Literature)
KILLING ME SOFTLY was published in 1999. Alice and Adam experience the love at first sight syndrome. Alice, a scientist working for a pharmaceutical firm, abandons her boyfriend Jake, her friends and her previous life in order to live with Adam. She will little by little learn to understand Adam, an climber who took part in the Chungawat dramatic expedition, two years before. Their sex life is violent, Adam being a S&M addict, but Alice is too obs...
Killing Me Softly (Thriller/Action)
The story of how a young city woman leaves the norms of life after a chance encounter with a young mysterious stranger with a dangerous background who she later marries....

French booklist

Land of the Living
Abbie woke up in darkness. She had a hood over her head and was tied up. After days of little food and water she began to lose her memory. There was a man that would come to torment her by telling her she was going to die soon. She managed to get away. Now in the hospital she has to convince people she is not crazy. They don't believe her. Abbie goes on her own hunt to remember what her life was like. In the process she finds her kidnapper and the person...
Secret Smile
Warner, June 2004, 24.00, 308 pp. ISBN 0446533475 Miranda is the pretty self-confident one that most people envy because she has her life together dating whom she wants and working at a job she loves. At a party she meets Brendan Brock and they go out together eight times before she decides to end it because there is something about him that makes her uneasy. One night she comes home to find him in her room reading her diary; she ends their rel...
The Memory Game
A skeleton is found in an unusal place in the garden at the Martellos' house. It is presumed to be Natalie, the missing daughter, who disappeared 25 years ago during a summer party. Jane, who was Natalie's best friend at the time of the disappearance, is in the middle of divorcing a member of the Martello family, while still trying to remain a solid member of this entertaining busybody family. She finds herself seeking out the help of Alex-Dermott Bro...