What Lies Beneath (1) (Rutland Crime)

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Anyhow, the book was enjoyable and entertaining, if not slow for my taste and unsettling. It talks about some of the unfortunate things that can happen to a woman and her body, which made me squirm in my seat. Get your gear ready for a fight. Head to Surok Magis (who is now wearing Dagon'hai robes), and talk to him. He will cast his mind-control spell on King Roald (level 47), who you will have to fight. When the King has low health, your character will say that "Now would be a good time to summon Zaff!". Now you can operate the Beacon ring to summon Zaff. You got the most evilest characters, a couple of cops who are the usual basic crooked, sexist, racist 🥱🥱. So original 🤥. Anyhoo, they date, they fall in love, and less than a year later, they're engaged. So, best case scenario, Cassie get's engaged at age 19, to a detective she barely knows, who hit on her while she was the witness in a murder case. I'm sorry but am I the only one who is severely bothered by this?

Hillsborough, North Carolina is a town with a dark history that is bubbling to the surface. Twenty years ago, Laura’s friend’s family was slaughtered in their beds, and the sole survivor, Laura’s eight-year-old friend, was whisked away to distant relatives. That was the last time Laura ever saw her best friend. Wow, I was blown away by this book. Right at the start we learn that Nina has had her 68 year old mother, Maggie, chained up in the attic for the last two years 😮. We don’t know what she has done to deserve this. The story, told from the perspective of both women in both the present and the past slowly peels away the layers until we get to the truth. And it’s not pretty! A chapter that takes her to the dark side before hitting her real goal in life might have added a bit more to this story. In other words, open with that horrific scene with the fire, then uncover the past while she learns to deal with the horror of her situation. This would have grabbed your readers by the throat and they’d have refused to put that book down until finished! A good content edit could have realigned the text into a killer thriller, but in the end, it did turn into an interesting read. J.G Hetherton deserves ALLLL the flowers for his beautiful writing. WOW. He is a true writer; an artist with words. He could take the mundane and describe it in ways I've never considered. I can't say enough good things about the writing quality of this novel. Hetherton is truly talented. Things get darker as the story goes and I was on the edge of seat anticipating how this one was going to wrap up, but really I had no idea. Well, I have to say it wrapped up brilliantly and I loved everything about this one! I highly recommend it!

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You don't know anything about the first victim apart from he ran a construction company and he was anti-religion. That's it. No attempts are made by the police to establish his last known whereabouts, there's no fleshing out of the character, nothing. You can't feel any sympathy for him as he basically exists as an empty corpse. That’s not to say that there were no glimpses of her ‘goodness’. They were just so rare that she’s just an unlikeable person. And having a main character you can’t root for makes it that much more difficult to be invested in the book.

The letter to Surok obtained from Rat Burgiss, if deciphered from the coded font, foreshadows Surok's plan before it is fully revealed.

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Turan, Kenneth (July 21, 2000). "What Lies Beneath – MOVIE REVIEW". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on July 27, 2010 . Retrieved July 27, 2010. I could deal with some of the stereotypes no surprise stuff for a possible second read, but guys who grieve over a loved one and blame themself, but 'shags' just about any breathing female, Nah! I am leaving a list of things I loved about this book if you found anything relatable you should read it:-

You can punish, and punishing is costly, but if you do, then hopefully things will return to normal,” Yoeli says. “The other choice is that you can not punish, but if you don’t, then what the subgame perfection concept tells you is that cooperation is going to collapse, and you are going to be in an uncooperative environment thereafter. That second piece is not always obvious.” Merely hoping people will behave themselves, in this case, is not a plan. There are other moments that say a lot more about the author than the plot, such as the 2 main characters passing a (paraphrasing as I am unsure of the precise phraseology) doddery old Gardener. This is mentioned twice, with not a spot more detail about the gardener, but with a character finding it amusing: I mean, what was funny, someone gardening or an older person gardening? News flash: Renee Zellweger’s Big Picture Co/ MGM TV production company bought the movie rights of the book! OMG I cannot wait to watch this batshit crazy train ride on big screen!🥳🥳🥳Full disclosure: I did not read the first book in this series. I've jumped in mid-series in different series (how many times can I use this word in two sentences???) and didn't feel like I was missing much, but in this case, reading the first book definitely would've helped. There's clearly some recurring characters with little context, and mention of past events, again without much context. However, you can definitely read it as a standalone, but expect to be a little confused in some regards. Let me start by saying I was so torn of how to rate this and what to write! So here goes a very messy review of what is going on in my head right now after finishing it last night.

It is found that the farmer of Howlingdales Farm, Simon Wardle, is a former soldier with the IFOR forces in Bosnia. Additionally there are several other nasty characters that served in Bosnia including a doctor Clive Butler who is leading the transplant part of the criminal activity. This is the clinic where Stella was being treated. Janko Vatovec travels from Eastern Europe to get a handle of the branch of their dealings that he finds out the "Snow Woman", Dacic had gone to solve. Martin Hill one of the soldiers in Bosnia, who faked his death is now the assassin that is killing. They are all extremely dangerous criminals, and when their names come up the military is sent in under the guise of the Bomb Disposal Unit, because the men are known to use explosives to get away. The rest of the book just plods along. I remember thinking, at one point, “This is moving really slowly. Maybe I should stop.” And then I saw that I was 56% in. At which point I realized that it was not moving slowly, but that was its actual pace – a lot of nothing happening. The point of this book is to uncover what lies between Maggie and Nina. Once you reach the part where the who is revealed (@70%), the rest just kinda unfolds like an exposition of the 5W1H—which was underwhelming since it basically meant the book was confirming my theory. The story follows Cassie as she embarks on a new chapter of her life: entering college as a psych major. The book also jumped straight in to the conversation of domestic abuse, a recurring topic althroughout. Cassie immediately makes friends with her roommates and gets to know their story. Everything plays out well until something horrible happens and Cassie crosses path with a police officer who she eventually develops a relationship with. Unfortunately, an incredibly unfortunate string of events lead to Cassie becoming a domestic abuse victim herself, showing how anyone could be a victim. With the help of her friend, Cassie was able to come to her senses but at a tragic cost that changes the course of her life.Thank you Crooked Lane Books and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book before publication. I have to deviate significantly from the blurb on Goodreads because that one almost seems like it’s for a different book. The 'Aphro-Dizzy-Yak' Surok mentions refers to "aphrodisiac", something which causes sexual arousal. Fast forward a few months and their relationship changes to becoming an abusive relationship. My issue here is that there is not enough of a case that is building up. In most domestic violence cases, the victim was not only physically abused. But the aggressor usually makes the victim completely dependent on them and also mentally manipulates the victim, so that when they become physically abusive, it is the victim's fault and they truly cannot leave. They are so bound to their abuser, that leaving is impossible. In the case of Mike and Cassie there was no such manipulation. Mike becomes distant and stressed. Cassie plays housewife. One night they argue and then he hits her. That's it. Cassie holds no grudge, doesn't protest and brushes it off like it's no big deal. This goes on for some time, and while I really did try to feel sympathy for Cassie, I could only be annoyed at her stupidity!