After Me (The Kate Sawyer Medical Thriller Series)
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After Me (The Kate Sawyer Medical Thriller Series)

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Price
$16.99
Format
Paperback
Pages
318
Publisher
Deborah B. Coonts
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1944831813
Dimensions
5.5 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches
Weight
14.4 ounces

Description

"Fantastic! Coonts combines her trademark strong characters and clever plotting with one of the freshest concepts in suspense--a heroine with early onset Alzheimer's who literally can't remember why everyone wants her dead. Buckle your seatbelt for a wild ride!" - Lisa Gardner, NYT #1 crime novelist and author of Find Her "A firecracker of a thriller--with an ingenious premise, non-stop suspense and terrific writing. But it's the heroine who makes this such a winner--a heart-breakingly damaged loner who's got 'soon-to-be-a-major-motion-picture' written all over her." - Hank Phillippi Ryan, Anthony, Agatha, and Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author of Say No More"Everyone who loves Deborah Coonts's Lucky series knows that she is a master of the humorous mystery; now everyone will watch Coonts make her mark in the darker world of suspense. After Me hooked me from page one. After Me is the hallmark of a great thriller: strong voice, twisting mystery, and a compelling heroine." - Allison Brennan, NYT bestselling author of The Lost Girls"Relentlessly paced, After Me is the compelling quest of a woman's inspiring quest to survive...and a haunting reminder of the great truth: we are what we remember. It's Coonts's most gripping book yet." - Vicki Pettersson, NYT and USA Today Bestselling author of Swerve"Deborah Coonts' After Me is the perfect thriller: a protagonist is being chased by those driven to make her pay with her life for a deed she may or may not have done, and truly cannot remember. Coonts's masterly use of memory flashback gives her heroine, Kate Sawyer, just enough revelatory insights into her own private hell to draw her readers into this purgatory with her. The premise is harrowing. The reveal is explosive. And the ending is redemptive. In other words, this is not just a satisfying novel; you'll find it a memorable read." - Josie Brown, author of The Candidate and The Housewife Assassin series Deborah Coonts swears she was switched at birth. Coming from a family of homebodies, Deborah is the odd women out, happiest with a passport, a high-limit credit card, her computer, and changing scenery outside her window. Goaded by an insatiable curiosity, she flies airplanes, rides motorcycles, travels the world, and pretends to be more of a badass than she probably is. Deborah is the author of the Lucky O'Toole Vegas Adventure series, a romantic mystery romp through Sin City. Wanna Get Lucky? , the first in the series, was a New York Times Notable Crime Novel and a double RITA ™ Award Finalist. Her contemporary romance inclinations found wing in The Heart of Napa series, set amid the bucolic vineyards of Napa. For thrills and dark mystery, she penned, After Me , an iBooks Best Of and a Nook First choice. And to further flex her writing abilities, Deborah penned the Sam Donovan series, a romance suspense series highlighting her love of flight. Right now, Deborah calls San Francisco home, but, since it's her we're talking about, this too can change.xa0But, for sure you can find Deborah atxa0deborahcoonts.com.

Features & Highlights

  • Twenty million in diamonds missing.Kate Sawyer, a cop in witness protection, holds the key.
  • If she could only remember.
  • Early-onset Alzheimer's clouds the past. Stem cell therapy is working to clear it.But time is running out for Kate.One night she finds a dead man in her bathtub with a note stuck in his pocket.
  • I know what you've done.
  • Her cover blown, Kate runs, the clock is ticking. People close to her are being killed. Shadowy memories tease her. Some she recognizes. Others don't seem familiar at all.Running from people she can't remember, dogged by a past lost in the haze, Kate discovers no one is who they appear to be, perhaps not even herself.
  • After Me
  • is a dark psychological thriller on the cutting edge of medical science, perfect for those who like scientific what-ifs...with a ray of hope.
  • AN INTERVIEW WITH DEBORAH COONTS
  • After making a name for yourself in another genre, why switch genres now?
  • My first series featuring Lucky O'Toole is a light, romantic mystery series. At the time, my life was pretty dark, so I enjoyed the laugh-out-loud snark of Lucky and her pals.But, now life is a bit brighter and I find the darker side, my love of thrillers calling to me. I've always loved thrillers, especially psychological thrillers, medical thrillers, women in jeopardy chase books, that sort of thing. Fast-paced storylines with deep, well-rounded characters--I wanted to add my name to the list of writers who have delved deep into these waters.
  • You're a lawyer, so why the medical tie-in?
  • I've always been a science geek. When I first went to college, medical school was my target. Alas, life got in the way, but it didn't dim my interest in the field. And today, technology is honing a sharp edge in the medical field raising lots of possibilities for cures. But where there is a good use there is also a bad use--the yin and the yang. Nothing ever comes without a price. Great for storytelling.
  • PRAISE FOR
  • After Me
  • "
  • Fantastic!
  • Coonts combines her trademark strong characters and clever plotting with one of the freshest concepts in suspense--a heroine with early onset Alzheimer's who literally can't remember why everyone wants her dead.
  • Buckle your seatbelt for a wild ride!
  • " -
  • Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author
  • "
  • A firecracker of a thriller
  • --with an ingenious premise, non-stop suspense and terrific writing. But it's the heroine who makes this such a winner--
  • a heart-breakingly damaged loner who's got 'soon-to-be-a-major-motion-picture' written all over her
  • ." -
  • Hank Phillippi Ryan, Anthony, Agatha, and Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author
  • "Everyone who loves Deborah Coonts's Lucky series knows that she is a master of the humorous mystery; now everyone will watch Coonts make her mark in the darker world of suspense.
  • After Me
  • hooked me from page one.
  • After Me
  • is the hallmark of a great thriller
  • : strong voice, twisting mystery, and a compelling heroine." -
  • Allison Brennan, New York Times bestselling author
  • "Relentlessly paced,
  • After Me
  • is the compelling quest of a woman's inspiring quest to survive...and a haunting reminder of the great truth: we are what we remember.
  • It's Coonts's most gripping book yet
  • ." -
  • Vicki Pettersson, New York Times & USA Today bestselling author

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Improbable but interesting read..

This story has some interesting, unpredictable and crazy twists. It moves pretty fast and keeps you wondering. Enough said? Well...I like the idea of the main character trying to out smart her Alzheimer's while solving a mystery (with some help from some far out stem cell cure) but, it was kind of monotonous to be constantly catching up and reading the same things over and over because of it. On the other hand... she would conveniently remember plenty of things as needed. I love the twists and turns but some of them were a little 'out there' for my tastes. Overall though, After Me is a unique and imaginative read.
6 people found this helpful
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I was a bit sad that my reading of the book had to come ...

AFTER ME is novelist Deborah Coonts's first thriller, and she is an imaginative and gifted storyteller. Kate Sawyer, a woman in the Witness Protection Program who is battling an early onset of Alzheimer's disease, faces the daunting challenge of trying to figure out why people are after her at seemingly every turn. The brilliance of Coonts's exceptional mind quickly becomes evident to the reader. I was a bit sad that my reading of the book had to come to an end, so I read it again!
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Great read! Never a dull moment!

Glad I took a chance on a new to me author! Never know where the next sentence is coming from or going. So many moving parts and interesting possibilities. Very well written. Already recommended to a friend!
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Fun read

This is the first book of hers I've read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The character is well developed and the author researched the signs of Alzheimer's and showed how it affected the mind of Kate and how she struggles to remember things from her past by using her smart phone to help her remember day to day events, appointments, etc.

This was a great suspenseful read and I will read more from her in the future.

This book has wry humor, raw emotions, and Kate's struggle with a disease that has no cure.
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this is a perfect murder mystery and this book would keep you guessing ...

this is a perfect murder mystery and this book would keep you guessing all the time.
This book was fast paced but its still the perfect book from this author. This is my first book
from her and she pulled me right into her book.
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Great book!

Deborah Coonts is my new favorite author! This book was suspenseful, unpredictable, and kept me turning pages even after I should have gone to bed!
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World class.

A fascinating premise leads to a masterful story. The author's treatment of characters keeps them just out of reach of predictable, and the end arrives unexpectedly. A WOW! read.
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Unreliable narrator, masterful story

Most of us routinely comment that we wouldn’t know what to do without our phones. In the case of Kate Sawyer that comment is more truth than the claims of an over-technologized society. The victim of early onset Alzheimer’s, Kate is the first person, truly unreliable narrator of Deborah Coonts’s new thriller, After Me. Her phone is her lifeline, how she remembers things, how she tries to piece together who she was to determine who she is now. Coonts takes readers on a wild ride as the events of Kate’s past collide with the events of her present. The pieces are masterfully woven and revealed, the reader experiences them as Kate does and sees them through her eyes.

After Me is a masterful thriller. The reader is kept guessing right along with our heroine. Though she is an unreliable narrator because she can’t remember, she is trustworthy because she relays what is happening in her head to the reader as she understands it. I was hooked from the very beginning. Coonts crafts a story you both don’t want to end and can’t wait to see what happens next.

I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this novel.
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loved it! suspenseful, intriguing - an excellent read

I loved this book! It was intriguing from page one - what happened to Kate? It was intense and suspenseful - there are bad guys after her and I found my heart pounding as I was reading! It was also confusing, particularly at the beginning, so you need to read very carefully - for a fast reader like me, I had to make a concentrated effort to do that - this book has a very intricate plot. Everyone is keeping secrets, playing an angle...and Kate doesn't know who to trust. The conclusion was spectacular - the betrayal so unexpected and yet so perfect - excellent!
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Fantastic Thriller

After me was a fantastic thriller. It kept me engaged from the first page and I didn't want to put it down. The twists and turns were unbelievable. I really had to pay attention. The plot was well developed and the ending very interesting. I highly recommend it to everyone.

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