Linda mather

Linda mather

About

I am a therapist. clinical supervisor, trainer and behavioural family therapist and author. I have three children and eight grandchildren.I love holidays, amateur dramatics and reading.

Dead Burn

Dead Burn

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Description

<p>Terrified California residents face the shocking dilemma of yet another serial killer roaming freely in their neighborhoods. However, this time it is an evolving serial killer anomaly that relentlessly searches for, hunts down, and ingeniously traps his victims before unleashing his fiery rage. Always two steps ahead of the cops and fire investigators, the killer hones in on the next sinful target leaving a trail of bones and ashes behind as evidence. It rocks the criminal justice system to the core as a string of arson murders hits inside their turf.</p><p>Vigilante detective Emily Stone hunts serial killers and child abductors, covertly and under the law enforcement radar, with her intrinsic skills of criminal profiling and forensic investigation. With Stone’s toughest case yet, the arson serial killer immediately crosses her radar and sends her into the dark territory of a lethal pyromaniac’s mind – to the point of no return.</p><p>While following the clues of the relentless firebomber, Stone grabs the attention of a government anti-terrorist organization called GATE that oversees all law enforcement cases across the U.S., which now focuses their sights on her proven abilities. They have very specific plans for her, whether she likes it or not.</p><p>Everything teeters on the edge of reality, as Stone must battle for her life between a hired assassin and an arson serial killer. Lines are drawn on both sides of the law. Friendships and lovers are tested.</p>

Story Behind The Book

“I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio” I’ve never forgotten that quote, I’d read it in one of my mothers magazines, it was Joan Rivers and I had spent hours admiring her photograph believing that this was what I should look like, be like. I was about thirteen at the time. She, Joan Rivers, had the same kind of mother as I had. I no longer felt so alone in the world, knowing there were others just like me. One day I will be famous I had thought, and I will say things like that, let them know exactly what my mother was – a whore, a child abuser and a nonentity, at least she was now. I’d had dreams, dreams that never came true, my life, and my waking hours had been one long nightmare and my sleep had been my respite where I could wish for happier times, when I could dream about blissful times, about becoming someone like Joan Rivers. My dreams are what kept me sane, kept me from wanting to die, when I awoke from the dream I would want to sleep again to go back into the dream that helped me to escape my miserable life. Being born is like a lottery, you don’t know which mother you are going to get. I was number 326 lining up waiting to be embedded in some woman’s womb; ironically 325 didn’t feel well on the day of my consummation so was made to sit out. If he had been well then my life might have been so very different, I would have got a nice mother then. Instead I got ‘her’; instead I drew the short straw. Did your child get the short straw? Hey you! I’m talking to you! Put the book down, YES YOU! Did your child get the short straw or was he lucky and won the lottery! “We are not makers of history. We are made by history” – Martin Luther King Junior This means that I have been made by my history, my life has made me who I am and also my mother, she has made me who I am today. Or would I have been like this anyway, was it in my DNA, was it nature or nurture? Perhaps you will be able to answer my question after reading my story, after living in my world even if just for the time it takes to read this book, or after stepping into the shoes that I was forced to wear either by my upbringing or by my DNA. So please don’t judge me as you read my story as this could have been you, if you had drawn the short straw like I did.

Reviews

<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Brilliant!!!</span></strong><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">, November 16, 2012 </span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">By </span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A2ISCS4DX247OL/ref=cm_cr_pr_pdp"><strong><span style="color:#004b91;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Mrs. H. Mcconnell &quot;brodie&quot;</span></strong></a><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"> (UK) - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A2ISCS4DX247OL/ref=cm_cr_pr_auth_rev?ie=UTF8&amp;sort_by=MostRecentReview"><span style="color:#004b91;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">See all my reviews</span></a><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=cm_rn_bdg_help?ie=UTF8&amp;nodeId=14279681&amp;pop-up=1#RN"><span style="color:#004b91;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">(REAL NAME)</span></a><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"></span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color:#e47911;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">This review is from: </span></strong><strong><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:7.5pt;">Gut Instinct (Kindle Edition)</span></strong><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:7.5pt;"></span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">I was engrossed right from the start. Excellent piece of writing, keeps you hanging on the whole way through! I love psychological thrillers, this is one of the best I have read in a long time! What an ending, well done, the author fantastic read!!!!</span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"></span></p><p> </p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Twisted tale!</span></strong><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">, November 24, 2012 </span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">By </span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A15KOCJOI95B3O/ref=cm_cr_pr_pdp"><strong><span style="color:#004b91;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">RoJo</span></strong></a><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"> - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A15KOCJOI95B3O/ref=cm_cr_pr_auth_rev?ie=UTF8&amp;sort_by=MostRecentReview"><span style="color:#004b91;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">See all my reviews</span></a><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"></span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color:#e47911;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">This review is from: </span></strong><strong><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:7.5pt;">Gut Instinct (Kindle Edition)</span></strong><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:7.5pt;"></span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">I was sucked into the story early on and spent the rest of the day reading. Easy to read, amusing, puzzling, sad, savage, insightful AND with a twist in the tale. I am looking forward to the next book.</span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"></span></p><p> </p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Brillant</span></strong><span style="font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">, 15 Nov 2012 </span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">By </span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/pdp/profile/A3Q72M1L2IGV9Q/ref=cm_cr_pr_pdp"><strong><span style="color:#004b91;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">claire</span></strong></a><span style="font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"> - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A3Q72M1L2IGV9Q/ref=cm_cr_pr_auth_rev?ie=UTF8&amp;sort_by=MostRecentReview"><span style="color:#004b91;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">See all my reviews</span></a><span style="font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"></span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color:#e47911;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">This review is from: </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:7.5pt;">Gut Instinct (Paperback)</span></strong><span style="font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:7.5pt;"></span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Well I didn’t expect that at the end. i couldn't put this book down and read 30 chapters in one night. Well done on a brilliant book.</span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"></span></p><p> </p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font>