Harlan norton - patience abbott

An unlikely but intense romance blooms between the Valley girl and the cowboy, despite protests from Tobe's single father the always effective David Morse , who, though being tough, cold and aggressively masculine, turns out to be right. Like Norton's debut role in 's "Primal Fear," in which he played an altar boy with an alter ego, Harlan is a myth. I would say Harlan is a lie, except that in the way Jacobson writes him and Norton plays him, Harlan isn't so much lying about who he is and what he's capable of as he is believing that he stands for something greater.

He can't be evil if he's a hero, railing against the fathers and builders of the world, who threaten his code of honor and the wide open spaces of his dreams. Harlan is, in fact, the anti-hero, and even when he's clearly disturbed, Jacobson's got a soft spot for his cause. Sometimes it's too soft, as in a heavy-handed shoot-out scene, set in a cookie-cutter housing development with Harlan and his horse hiding behind the walls of a half-built McMansion, Harlan's view of the mountains obscured by cranes and tacky architecture.

With lies piling up and guns drawn, and even with the film spiraling into the surreal, Harlan remains deeply human. Jacobson, whose earlier film is a docudrama about Jeffrey Dahmer, is clearly fascinated with men who would be monsters. Have a card? Add it now to start borrowing from the collection. The library card you previously added can't be used to complete this action.

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Search Search Search Browse menu. Sign in. EBRPL home. Description Details Reviews From "one of the best thriller writers in the business" Associated Press comes a novel praised by Harlan Coben as "mesmerizing, gripping Turns out to be someone you never really knew at all.

An accomplished photographer and the devoted mom of an adorable little boy, Allie Ross has just moved to an upscale DC suburb, the kind of place where parenting feels like a competitive sport. It all starts at a neighborhood party when a local dad corners Allie and calls her by an old, forgotten nickname from her dark past.

The next day, he is found dead. By: Aggie Blum Thompson. Beach-bum-turned-judge Whit Mosley is summoned to a yacht where the black-sheep son of a senator lies dead. Was it suicide, fueled by a family tragedy? Or did an obsessed killer use the dead man as a pawn in a twisted game? When Whit defies political pressure and conducts an inquest, he and Detective Claudia Salazar expose a nest of drug lords, con artists, and power-hungry sharks - all out for blood.

With their careers - and their lives - at stake, Whit and Claudia must unearth a lethal trail of passion and deceit. Sam Capra is living the life of his dreams. He's a brilliant young CIA agent, stationed in London. His wife Lucy is seven months pregnant with their first child. They have a wonderful home, and are deeply in love. They have everything they could hope for A woman stumbles onto a dark road in rural Oregon - tortured, battered, and bound.

She tells a horrific story about being kidnapped, then tortured, until she finally managed to escape. She was the lucky one - two other women, with similar burns and bruises, were found dead. The surviving victim identifies the house where she was held captive, and the owner, Alex Mason - a prominent local attorney - is arrested.

By: Phillip Margolin. Leslie Flores has the perfect life - a loving husband, a happy newborn, and a New Mexico home straight out of a magazine. By: Tanen Jones. Each of us has a question we dread.

When the simple community of Lakehaven is shaken by a violent crime, doubts begin to arise among the locals about whom they can trust. In a quiet neighborhood in the wealthy Austin suburb of Lakehaven, the body of Danielle Roberts is discovered on a park bench. Danielle was a beloved member of the community, an adoption consultant who delivered the joy of parenthood to a number of local families. Her murder shocks Lakehaven. Perhaps no other family is as crushed as the Pollitts, who lived two houses down from Danielle and thought of her almost like family.

Her death becomes the catalyst for a maelstrom of suspicion and intrigue. You have been told a huge lie , an anonymous email charges the son, Grant. No one can learn the truth now , thinks the father, Kyle. Never ask me what I'd do to protect my family , resolves the wife, Iris. I'll do whatever it takes to save him , vows the daughter, Julia, of Danielle's grieving teenage son. The Pollitts always thought they'd always be there for each other.

When each begins to suspect the others of the unimaginable, the strength of their bonds will be tested in extraordinary new ways. The latest from New York Times best-selling author Jeff Abbott is his most suspenseful thriller yet: a riveting tale of the dangerous secrets one family has concealed - and what happens when the question each Pollitt hoped they'd never be asked threatens to expose their darkest truths. It was my first book by this author and now I have got to discover his other books!

This novel was so fascinating and kept me on edge the whole entire time! After the initial finding of a dead body in this close knit neighborhood, all of the questions start.

I could not guess all of the ups and downs and surprises that would be unveiled throughout the novel. I loved the different narrators and thought they all did such a good job to make the story so real and intense. This book had me on the edge of my seat to the very end!!! Never ask a mother how far she will go to protect her family! Damn this was such a good book and he shouted out another good author in here too!

Great job author! Great job narrators! This one is a keeper! Well written. Superbly performed. Some parts of the plot were implausible but it was definitely entertaining. I look forward to listen to another novel by this author. Good book, keeps you guessing Just a darned good book if you like mysteries and thrillers! A lot of twist and turns, and all tied together seamlessly at the end.

Check this one out! Characters are ill-defined and the plot is convoluted and messy. Seemed very much like an inexperienced group got together and did some stream of consciousness writing? Perhaps fun for the writers but not so much for the reader. I bought this on sale-Thank goodness! I listened to the end because I really wanted to find out how all of the characters and events were tied together only to be smacked with a protracted exposition in the final chapter.

The construction of the audio version with different readers reading different parts was clever and kept things interesting but not enough to mitigate the flaws in the plot construction. I really wanted to like this mystery. A small-town murder with many secrets should be engaging.

I also like multi-generational stories. I like novels that move between adult and teen worlds. The problem is that none of the characters were developed or came alive at all.