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Cold cold heart / Tami Hoag.
"Dana Nolan was a promising young TV reporter until she was kidnapped by a notorious serial killer. A year has passed since she defeated her attacker, but Dana is still physically, emotionally, and psychologically scarred by her ordeal, with after-effects including PTSD and memory loss. In an attempt to put herself back together, Dana returns to her hometown. But it doesn't provide the comfort she expects: She struggles to recognize family and childhood friends and begins experiencing dark flashbacks - but she's not sure if they're truly memories or side effects of her brain injury." -- Provided by the Publisher.
Dana Nolan was a promising young TV reporter until a notorious serial killer tried to add her to his list of victims. Nearly a year has passed since surviving her ordeal, but the physical, emotional, and psychological scars run deep. Struggling with the torment of post-traumatic stress syndrome, plagued by flashbacks and nightmares as dark as the heart of a killer, Dana returns to her hometown in an attempt to begin to put her life back together. But home doesn’t provide the comfort she expects. Dana’s harrowing story and her return to small town life has rekindled police and media interest in the unsolved case of her childhood best friend, Casey Grant, who disappeared without a trace the summer after their graduation from high school. Terrified of truths long-buried, Dana reluctantly begins to look back at her past. Viewed through the dark filter of PTSD, old friends and loved ones become suspects and enemies. Questioning everything she knows, refusing to be defined by the traumas of her past and struggling against excruciating odds, Dana seeks out a truth that may prove too terrible to be believed…
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525954545 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780451470065 (paperback)
- ISBN: 0451470060 (mass market paperback)
- Physical Description: 388 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Dutton ; 2015.
- Copyright: ©2015.
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| Subject: | Missing persons > Investigation > Fiction. Cold cases (Criminal investigation) > Fiction. Post-traumatic stress disorder > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Suspense fiction. Mystery fiction. |
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- 33 of 36 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Sechelt Public Library | F HOAG (Text) | 3326000337911 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Gibsons Public Library | FIC HOAG (Text) | 30886000582193 | Adult Fiction Hardcover | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Gibsons Public Library | PB H (Text) | 30886000635173 | Adult Fiction paperback | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2014 December #1
*Starred Review* Hoag has been writing nail-biting thrillers for years, but this time she ups the ante. The suspense remains high, but the stakes are even higher as Hoag delves into traumatic brain injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder. Dana Nolan is a TV reporter who is kidnapped and tortured by a serial killer called Doc Hollidayâuntil she kills him. She suffers a traumatic brain injury in the process, as well as psychological damage that will take much longer to heal. The news reporter is now the news story, and she considers herself as Before Dana and After Dana, as if she were two different people. Dana soon realizes that she needs goals in order to move ahead. She starts by trying to relearn her own life, reading her old high-school journal, and slowly her memories start coming back. The summer before college, her best friend, Casey, disappeared, and as Dana looks at her own life, she also looks at Casey's. Casey's old boyfriend, who was always under a cloud of suspicion surrounding Casey's disappearance, is back in town, now a veteran and suffering from PTSD and a brain injury himself. Seven years have passed, and as these two damaged people try to find ways to live a normal life under the most difficult of circumstances, solving the old mystery gives them focus. This unusual take on a serial-killer novel offers a most welcome exploration of traumatic brain injury and what it is like to be a survivor. Copyright 2014 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2014 November #1
In Hoag's (The 9th Girl, 2013, etc.) latest, talented young newscaster Dana Nolan is left to navigate a psychological maze after escaping a serial killer.While recuperating at home in Shelby Mills, Indiana, Dana meets her former high school classmates John Villante and Tim Carver. Football hero Tim is ashamed of flunking out of West Point, and now he's a sheriff's deputy. After Iraq and Afghanistan tours, John's home with PTSD, "angry and bitter and dark." Dana survived abduction by serial killer Doc Holiday, but she still suffers from the gruesome attack by "the man who ruined her life, destroyed her career, shattered her sense of self, damaged her brain and her face." What binds the trio is their friend Casey Grant, who's been missing five years, perhaps also a Holiday victim, even if "[t]he odds against that kind of coincidence had to be astronomical." Hoag's first 100 pages are a gut-wrenching dissection of the aftereffects of traumatic brain injury: Dana is plagued by "[ f]ear, panic, grief, and anger" and haunted by fractured memories and nightmares. "Before Dana had believed in the inherent good in people. After Dana knew firsthand their capacity for evil." Impulsive and paranoid, Dana obsesses over linking Casey's disappearance to Holiday, with her misfiring brain convincing her that "finding the truth about what had happened to Casey [was] her chance of redemption." But then Hoag tosses suspects into the narrative faster than Dana can count: Roger Mercer, Dana's self-absorbed state senator stepfather; Mack Villante, who left son John with "no memories of his father that didn't include drunkenness and cruelty"; even Hardy, the hard-bitten, cancer-stricken detective who investigated Casey's disappearance. Tense, tightly woven, with every minor character, from Dana's fiercely protective aunt to Mercer's pudgy campaign chief, ratcheting up the tension, Hoag's narrative explodes with an unexpected but believable conclusion. A top-notch psycho l ogical thriller. Copyright Kirkus 2014 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2014 March #1
TV news reporter Dana Nolan, who escaped from a serial killer, still suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Is that why everyone looks suspect when she reopens the investigation of her best friend's disappearance after high school graduation?
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There was "Before Dana" and now there is only "After Dana." Hoag's (The 9th Girl) new stand-alone starts off with a life hanging in the balance. TV reporter Dana Nolan, for days raped, tortured, and disfigured, is on the floor of a van driven by a serial killer. In one last, desperate attempt to survive, Dana buries a screwdriver in her tormentor's head, killing him. Now the beautiful, confident "Before Dana" is gone, replaced by a new Dana, suffering from post-traumatic stress and memory gaps. When she is finally discharged from the hospital, she comes back to her hometown to continue the healing process. The media frenzy turns the spotlight on the disappearance of Dana's best friend from high school, Casey, who vanished without a trace the summer after their graduation. Are the two incidents related? What happened to Casey? Dana is determined to find out, but the truth may lead her down a path of no return. Verdict This roller coaster of a thriller offers plenty of plot twists and edge-of-your-seat moments that will satisfy fans of the genre and those who love riveting cold case mysteries. [See Prepub Alert, 2/10/14.]âSusan Moritz, Silver Spring, MD (c) Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2014 November #3
Dana Nolan, the heroine of this chilling psychological thriller from bestseller Hoag (The 9th Girl), used to be a Minneapolis TV reporter, until she was captured by the serial killer known as Doc Holiday, who tortured and raped her. Dana managed to escape her tormentor, but she suffers from PTSD as well as a traumatic brain injury that causes her difficulty performing everyday tasks and retrieving words and memories. When Dana returns to her hometown in Indiana to live with her mother and stepfather, reporters ask her about Casey Grant, her best friend since grade school, who mysteriously disappeared the summer after their high school graduation seven years before, never to be found. Dana gets reacquainted with Casey's old boyfriend, John Villante, whom many locals suspect killed Casey. As her memories of Casey re-emerge, Dana determines to discover what happened to her friend. Hoag fans will appreciate the cameo appearances of detectives Nikki Liska and Sam Kovac from earlier books. Agent: Andrea Cirillo, Jane Rotrosen Agency. (Jan.)
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