Given to me by my grandmother that has highly recommended the book:)

Pre~numbered label used for registration.

Happy Reading!

I have lent the book to a friend that really enjoys Tami Hoag's titles.

(Update: 9-30-03)
She has returned the book to me. Since, it is not really my type of story, I have decided to turn the book into a BookRay, so that other BC members may enjoy the title:)

From the Publisher:
The newspapers have dubbed him the Cremator. He has already claimed three lives. And he won't stop there. He has a plan for greatness. Only this time there is a witness. A teenage runaway with a dubious identity and a murky past, Angie DiMarco has seen the face of the killer in the flickering light of the funeral pyre. Now the police have Angie, but Angie isn't talking. Enter Kate Conlan. She knows all too well the dark side of the human heart. Once an up-and-coming FBI agent, she left the Bureau under a cloud of scandal. Now, instead of catching criminals, she helps their victims and protects witnesses. The job of advocate suits her just fine - until she's assigned to Angie. Not even Kate can tell if the troubled youth is a reluctant witness, a potential victim, or something more troubling still. Her superiors are interested only in badgering Angie for a lead, because the Cremator's latest victim may be the daughter of Peter Bondurant - an enigmatic billionaire businessman with power to influence the way the case is handled. Bondurant pulls strings and gets Special Agent John Quinn brought to the case. The FBI's ace profiler of serial killers, Quinn shares a painful past with Kate and hides a secret that is driving him toward madness. Amid a frenzy of public hysteria, politics, and media attention, Kate is confronted with the most difficult role of her career - and her life. For she is the one woman who has what it takes to stop the Cremator...and the one woman he wants next.

Happy Reading!

BOOKRAY!!!

OPEN BOOKRAY! I am planning on sending the book on it's journey on December 8th! After I have sent the book to the first person on the list, new participants will be added to the end of the list and must be open to ship anywhere. When the last person on the list receives the books it will be theirs to do as they wish:)

Thank you for participating and Happy Reading:)


Here is the order for this book so far:

ShyAnn (Me) ~ (California)+++
Tyressia ~ (Canada)+++
MoJeDenUK ~ (England)+++
eilantha ~ (Portugal)+++Rec'd 2/25/04
katayoun ~ (Iran)+++
Kislany ~ (Cyprus)+++
mortenak ~ (Denmark)+++
ppagano ~ (Florida)
tootshelling ~ (Arizona)+++
tchrding ~ (Tennessee)


***Wishes only to ship within the US
^^^Wishes only to ship within the US and Canada
+++Will ship Internationally
---Wishes only to ship within Europe


Here are the rules:

1. When you receive the book, make a journal entry so we all get the thrill of knowing where it's at.

2. Send a private message (PM) to the next person in line for their address. If they do not respond within three days, PM them again. If they do not respond within a week of your first message, PM the person after them and contact me.

3. Read the book, within 30 days, and make a journal entry to tell us what you have thought about the book. You can be as brief or as lengthy as you wish with your thoughts about the book.
Please remember, that there are many anxious readers patiently waiting to read the book after you. Please bear this in mind! If you tend to be a slow reader, like myself, and need the month to finish the book, please make a periodic journal entry indicating how far you are into the story, or thoughts about what you have read so far. This way we know that the book has not been forgotten in your ‘to-be-read’ garden:)

4. When you are ready to send the book to the next person in line, make release notes/a journal entry to say when the book is leaving your hands and who'll be catching it next, and pop it into the post!

5. To the last person on the list: The book is yours! It will be yours to decide it's next destination:)

Thank you for participating!

***When you receive a PM from the person before you, letting you know that you are next in line, and you find yourself overwhelmed with book commitments,(or just life in general) Please PM me and I may be able to move you farther down the list.

Released on Monday, December 08, 2003 at USPS-Mailing to Fellow BookCrosser in Oakdale, California USA.

This book is on it's way to the first person on the BookRay list, Tyressia in Canada!

Thank you for participating:)

Enjoy!

Book arrived safely today! :) I'll journal again once I've read it, then it'll be on its way to MoJeDenUK.

Kate Conlan is a former FBI agent turned victim/witness advocate. She treats her clients like family, always eager to be there for them, to support them and give them the encouragement they need. She has only one rule: she doesn't work with kids.

When a murderer strikes again, leaving his signature mark of a charred corpse in the middle of a very public park, the cops know they're dealing with a serial killer. His first two victims didn't garner too much attention – after all, they were only prostitutes. Surely, government money could be put to better use than finding their killers? But the third victim is different. She's thought to be the daughter of a billionaire. Too bad the killer decapitated her before burning her, which leaves the cops very little options for identification. Except, this time, there's a witness. She's young, perhaps fifteen or sixteen, and living on the streets has made her stubborn, uncooperative and unreliable.

When Kate is assigned to work with this witness, she's appalled. There's a reason she doesn't work with kids. They take too much emotional involvement, and Kate has already lost her daughter – she's not sure she can deal with having any more children taken away from her. Then things get even more complicated as the best FBI profiler, John Quinn, is brought in on the case. Unfortunately for Kate, he's also her ex-lover, and the only man she's ever really loved.

This was my first introduction to Tami Hoag's writing, and I have to admit, I'm speechless. Her talent is extraordinary, as she's able to craft an intensely suspenseful story that kept me turning pages well into the night. In fact, I finished this book at 5:00 AM, unwilling to put it down through the last four hundred pages. I needed to know what would happen next. Every twist and turn of this fabulous mystery thriller brought me to the edge of my seat… and just when I thought I had it figured out, another twist in the story would develop, nullifying everything I thought I knew.

I truly felt connected to the main characters. Both John and Kate were endearing; both having had to suffer through so much and deal with an inordinate amount of stress. I was rooting for them to find the happiness and peace they so richly deserved. Of course, with a psychopath on the loose, it's a little hard to find time for romance.

A word of warning: some scenes are extremely graphic, and quite disturbing. In particular, the autopsy scenes, and those written from the killer's point of view are especially chilling. So settle in with a blanket, a cup of hot chocolate, and this exquisite thriller – and make sure to lock those doors!

Released on Thursday, January 22, 2004 at Fellow BookCrosser in Postal release, Postal Release Controlled Releases.

I'm sorry it took me a week to get this one in the mail after finishing it (yikes!), but it's finally on its way to MoJeDenUK. Enjoy! :)

Gratefully received in the post today from Tyressia in Canada. Will make a start on it within the next couple of days. I'm looking forward to reading this after such great reviews.

Just finished the last 100 pages today. I enjoyed the book, but I found it was one of those books that I could put down without too much regret! It was fast paced, but not particularly a page turner for me. It didn't quite grab me as other books have done, but having said that it was well written and there was a real twist at the end which certainly had me fooled! Half way through the book I thought I had it all sussed, only to be proved wrong...completely! So thumbs up to the author for such a clever ending!!!

Posted today to Eilantha (19/2)

Sent to me by mail:)
Thanks