Helpful Score: 3
Wow! This book has so many layers, it's hard to know where to start. The killer is not trully revealed until the last 20 pages. Everytime i thought i had it, i was tripped up. And even though we don't really find out why the killer is the way they are, it really is a page-turning thriller. I was unable to put it down once i hit the home stretch. Not all questions are answered in Steven's books, but she gives you enough to keep you on the edge of your seat. Maybe not knowing everything makes the story better. I know that i am hooked and will keep reading her books.
Helpful Score: 1
What a twisted book. I needed a few chapters to get into the story but then I literally flew through the pages.
Sean Kelton needs the help of his ex-girlfriend Sarah DeLaune as an tattoo artists. Two women have been killed in the most gruesome ways imaginable. The killer left a precise tattoo on both victims and Sean hopes Sarah might be able to offer some information about the tattoos. As soon as Sarah enters the first crime scene she's baffled. Something doesn't seem to be right
here.
Fragments of her past and her sister's killing have always haunted her and made her and mde her a nervous wreck. She can't remember what happened on this disastrous day but the ritual signs she sees at this scene bring out a painful resemblance to those at her sister's crime scene over a decade ago.
Things get tight when she has to leave town to look after her dying father and Sean's jealous wife and her friend vanish.
Back in her hometown she's confronted with her past, struggling to remember what happened. Where did Ashe Cain go and did he really exist or was he just her imagination ? Is it possible that she killed her sister and her brain doesn't allow her to remember that ? Is she the crazy one or is everything that happens, including her father found murdered in his hospital bed, a masquerade to set her up.
When everything seems to point to her as being the suspect for the past and current killings there is only one way for her to find out who killed Rachel and who's responsible for the current killings. She needs to convince her psychiatrist to finally agree to hypnotize her fragile mind.
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This plot is tight until the end. The reader doesn't know who's the killer until the last chapters open the door to a darkness that creates chills and goosebumps. Although the end came quick I enjoyed the book very much and couldn't put it down.
Sean Kelton needs the help of his ex-girlfriend Sarah DeLaune as an tattoo artists. Two women have been killed in the most gruesome ways imaginable. The killer left a precise tattoo on both victims and Sean hopes Sarah might be able to offer some information about the tattoos. As soon as Sarah enters the first crime scene she's baffled. Something doesn't seem to be right
here.
Fragments of her past and her sister's killing have always haunted her and made her and mde her a nervous wreck. She can't remember what happened on this disastrous day but the ritual signs she sees at this scene bring out a painful resemblance to those at her sister's crime scene over a decade ago.
Things get tight when she has to leave town to look after her dying father and Sean's jealous wife and her friend vanish.
Back in her hometown she's confronted with her past, struggling to remember what happened. Where did Ashe Cain go and did he really exist or was he just her imagination ? Is it possible that she killed her sister and her brain doesn't allow her to remember that ? Is she the crazy one or is everything that happens, including her father found murdered in his hospital bed, a masquerade to set her up.
When everything seems to point to her as being the suspect for the past and current killings there is only one way for her to find out who killed Rachel and who's responsible for the current killings. She needs to convince her psychiatrist to finally agree to hypnotize her fragile mind.
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This plot is tight until the end. The reader doesn't know who's the killer until the last chapters open the door to a darkness that creates chills and goosebumps. Although the end came quick I enjoyed the book very much and couldn't put it down.
I really loved this book! It had me glued to it from the very start to the very end. I read this book in 2 days....and that never happens!
A real page turner that keeps you guessing till the end!
The footprints were etched in the snow for miles, passing through walls and crossing riversappearing on the other side as though no barrier could stop them.
In 1922 a farmer in Adamant, Arkansas, awakes to a noise on his roof and finds his snow-blanketed yard marked with thousands of cloven footprints. The prints vanish with the melting snowonly to reappear seventy years later near the gruesome killing of Rachel DeLaune.
Years after her sister's unsolved murder, New Orleans tattoo artist Sarah DeLaune is haunted by the mysteries of her past. Sarah has always believed that her sister was killed by a man named Ashe Cain. But no one else had ever seen Ashe.
He had "appeared" to Sarah when she needed a friend the most, only to vanish on the night of her sister's murder. The past bleeds into the present when two mutilated bodies are found near Sarah's home, the crime scene desecrated by cloven footprints.
This book was not what I expected. I didn't really care for the ending but the story leading up to that was good and kept me reading, so good I read it in 2 days. I gave it 4 stars because it is a very good mystery and well written story.
In 1922 a farmer in Adamant, Arkansas, awakes to a noise on his roof and finds his snow-blanketed yard marked with thousands of cloven footprints. The prints vanish with the melting snowonly to reappear seventy years later near the gruesome killing of Rachel DeLaune.
Years after her sister's unsolved murder, New Orleans tattoo artist Sarah DeLaune is haunted by the mysteries of her past. Sarah has always believed that her sister was killed by a man named Ashe Cain. But no one else had ever seen Ashe.
He had "appeared" to Sarah when she needed a friend the most, only to vanish on the night of her sister's murder. The past bleeds into the present when two mutilated bodies are found near Sarah's home, the crime scene desecrated by cloven footprints.
This book was not what I expected. I didn't really care for the ending but the story leading up to that was good and kept me reading, so good I read it in 2 days. I gave it 4 stars because it is a very good mystery and well written story.
Great book! This was the first book I read by this author but it won't be my last. It kept my interest until the end. I read it in one day.
WOW TERRIFIC read edge of your seat thrilling mysterious who done it a great book and wonderful page turner. Blending multiple persona disorder and personal mystery death and mayhem into a well scripted read for the thrill seekers.
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Sarah DeLaune was always an outcast, even in her own family. Rachel was Judge James DeLaune's pride and joy. There was nothing that Sarah could say or do to make her father love her. The only person who understood her was Ashe Cain, the mysterious stranger she met one day while out walking her dog, and never saw again after her sister's murder. Sarah begins to question whether he was real or not, and if he wasn't, does that make her the killer?
Sarah's past comes back, in more ways than one, when her former lover - and homicide detective - Lieutenant Sean Kelton asks for help on his new case. The victim has tattoos, and Sarah knows the handiwork of all the local artists. Sean and Sarah had been in in relationship for two years before Sean walked out. Sean had looked into Rachel's murder, but things weren't adding up and Sarah wouldn't confide in him. Sean also has his own troubled past that played a part in his leaving. He still cares about Sarah very much, and neither has really gotten over the other. If they both can overcome their pasts, they might have a second chance at a life together.
Sean and Sarah aren't the only characters with troubled pasts. Nearly everyone we meet has some trauma in their past that helped conceal the identity of murderer. There were several times where I feared for Sarah's safety because the author kept me guessing. I was shocked when I learned the identity. I never would have guessed, and that's rare. Very creepy book, but I enjoyed it very much.
Sarah DeLaune was always an outcast, even in her own family. Rachel was Judge James DeLaune's pride and joy. There was nothing that Sarah could say or do to make her father love her. The only person who understood her was Ashe Cain, the mysterious stranger she met one day while out walking her dog, and never saw again after her sister's murder. Sarah begins to question whether he was real or not, and if he wasn't, does that make her the killer?
Sarah's past comes back, in more ways than one, when her former lover - and homicide detective - Lieutenant Sean Kelton asks for help on his new case. The victim has tattoos, and Sarah knows the handiwork of all the local artists. Sean and Sarah had been in in relationship for two years before Sean walked out. Sean had looked into Rachel's murder, but things weren't adding up and Sarah wouldn't confide in him. Sean also has his own troubled past that played a part in his leaving. He still cares about Sarah very much, and neither has really gotten over the other. If they both can overcome their pasts, they might have a second chance at a life together.
Sean and Sarah aren't the only characters with troubled pasts. Nearly everyone we meet has some trauma in their past that helped conceal the identity of murderer. There were several times where I feared for Sarah's safety because the author kept me guessing. I was shocked when I learned the identity. I never would have guessed, and that's rare. Very creepy book, but I enjoyed it very much.
I liked this story. Small town folklore. It started out great, then toward the middle it seemed to slow down. Then the end just blasted everything out in the open. Nice little pyscho-thriller.
Is the old wives tale of the Devil's footprints true? Who is murdering the women and marking them with an odd tattoo?
