Good Intentions

by Patricia O'Brien

Book Overview

Newly-divorced radio talk show host Rachel Snow buys the Chicago house she was raised in hoping to buy a sense of security in the process. Then she receives an on-air call from the "Truthseeker", who... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575663112
• ISBN13: 9781575663111
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

A rattling good yarn

This is a rattling good yarn, crisply written and neatly plotted, with three-dimensional characters you'll care about. It transcends its thriller genre to offer a compelling portrait of three generations of women: the heroine, her daughter, and her widowed mother. To use the handy cliche, the women come alive off the page. The hard-pressed widow has returned to the workplace as a department store clerk, and, for me, the book's most suspenseful passage portrays her confrontation with a bitchy customer and a hi-tech cash register. For good measure, there's a love triangle. And the book nicely captures the flavor and texture of its Chicago setting. (The author was once a topflight newspaper reporter in Chicago.) The book has but one flaw; the heroine in the end clearly winds up with the wrong man.

Good Story of Family Relationships w/ a little suspense

This book is about female family relationships between three generations of women. Each feels that they can't do anything right for the generation that follows them. Then slowly they begin to understand each other and each others needs, but with the threat of a stalker hovering over them. They work through old problems and old hurts, but the threat is still there. I enjoyed reading this book a lot and would recommend it to anyone who wanted to spend some time thinking about their own relationship with their mother. Not a book for a quick read. I really thought about when my mother and I were going through this particular stage, when I was reading this book. I can't give the book away, but I was very surprised who the "stalker" turned out to be. Enjoy this book, it is suspensful, but without all of the gross, really scarry things like in a King novel.