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Stone’s Throw |
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| Stone’s Throw by Linda Opdyke Hard Shell Word Factory 449 pages - 1999 Order from publisher: ISBN 1582005370 Reviewed by PJ Nunn - Nominated for the Eppie Award in the thriller category, awarded by EPIC in August 2000. - Nominated for the Frankfurt E-book Award initiated by the International eBook Award Foundation to be awarded in October 2000, with a Grand Prize of $ 100,000. Read our author interview Every woman makes a bad choice sometime, but it doesn't often cost her a child. Stacy Weston planned to distance herself from ex-husband Jake and start a new life with baby Jeremy, but Jake had other plans. As usual, those plans were illegal, but he promised if Stacy would just help him one last time, he'd let them go. The promise of freedom was too much to resist and Stacy did as he asked. She should have known Jake never kept a promise. Jake gave her freedom, all right. But he also kidnapped Jeremy and sold him, then disappeared. Now Stacy was lost, alone, and afraid to call on the police for help. After all, she'd been an unwitting accomplice and Jake had proof. With the single driving force of finding her missing baby, Stacy tracks him to a tiny Appalachian community populated with good ole boys that drink moonshine and beat their women into submission. But what Stacy lacks in support, she makes up for in determination. She'll go wherever and do whatever to hold her baby in her arms again. Stone's Throw definitely lives up to its "thriller" billing. Opdyke's descriptive powers make the mountains come alive and create characters so real they're almost visible. Stacy's single-minded purpose, complicated by a relationship she desperately wants and needs, but at the same time fears, is a tightrope walk through a nightmare no mother wants to face. It starts fast and ends faster. Stone's Throw is one of the best books I've read in a long time and lays to rest the rumor that e-books lack the quality of print books - at least in this case. |
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