The Cove
The hard-charging thriller that launched Catherine Coulter's bestselling FBI series-now in hardcover for the first time. Sally St. John Brainerd is on the run from the authorities, who want to question her about her possible involvement in her father's murder. FBI Special Agent James Quinlan...
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The hard-charging thriller that launched Catherine Coulter's bestselling FBI series-now in hardcover for the first time. Sally St. John Brainerd is on the run from the authorities, who want to question her about her possible involvement in her father's murder. FBI Special Agent James Quinlan goes undercover in the picturesque town of The Cove-home of the World's Greatest Ice Cream-where Sally seeks sanctuary. But The Cove and its elderly residents harbor sinister secrets of their own. After Quinlan and Sally discover two dead bodies, Sally vanishes, and Quinlan turns to his partner Dillon Savich to rescue her from a place where no one should be held. Quinlan discovers she is indeed the key to a murder-but whose murder?
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780399150869 (0399150862)
Publish date: November 10th 2003
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Series: FBI Thriller (#1)
Coulter is a romance writer that has broken out into the mainstream; this book was found in the mystery section. Blessedly, the book lacked the romance genre's purple prose descriptions of the protagonists, but it did have a bad habit of head-hopping that by Chapter Four was seriously getting on my ...
This is the first Coulter I have read in this series, and I loved it. It was quirky, funny, scary, and a few other adjectives I can't bring to mind right now. It is quirky in that the storyline is 'out there', but that is what makes it enjoyable.There are two story lines running in tandem in the boo...
The Cove by Catherine Coulter is a wild ride. I really enjoyed it! This book has so much going on in it that it is hard to talk about it without giving away major plot points. Not only is there more than one murder, there is more than one killer. Any book that keeps you on your toes is a great b...
Probably 2.5 stars but a Lifetime movie woman-in-danger plot and some really over the top villains knock it down for me. Still the mystery itself hooked me and the second half of this book worked much better than the first. I did like some of the other FBI characters introduced at the end so I may...
This first book in the series is interesting but there are a few challenges. Most of the characters were fleshed out pretty well and there were quite a few plot twists to keep you turning the page. The pace was near perfect. What kept it from being rated a 4 was a somewhat stilted dialogue at times...
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