Mean Streak

by Sandra Brown

Overview

Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Literally. Fog and ice encapsulate the mountainous wilderness and paralyze the search for her. While police suspect Jeff of 'instant divorce', Emory, suffering from an unexplained head injury, regains consciousness and finds herself the captive of a man whose violent past is so dark that he won't even tell her his name. She's determined to escape him, and willing to take any risks necessary to survive"--

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781455581153
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	07/28/2015
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 6.70(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Sandra Brown is the author of seventy-seven New York Times bestsellers, including Blood Moon, Out of Nowhere, Overkill, Blind Tiger, Thick As Thieves, Seeing Red, Outfox, Tailspin, Sting and Mean Streak. Writing professionally since 1981, Brown has published over eighty novels and has upwards of eighty million copies of her books in print worldwide. Her work has been translated into thirty-four languages. Brown holds an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Texas Christian University, where she instituted the Excellence in Literary Fiction, or ELF, a scholarship awarded annually to a creative writing student. She has served as president of Mystery Writers of America, and in 2008 she was named Thriller Master, the top award given by the International Thriller Writer’s Association. Other honors include the Texas Medal of Arts Award for Literature and the Romance Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Hometown:

Arlington, TX

Date of Birth:

March 12, 1948

Place of Birth:

Waco, Texas

Education:

Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Texas Christian University, 2008

Website:

http://www.sandrabrown.net/

Editorial Reviews

"DEADLINE is both a breathtaking and heartbreaking story; one that will stay with the reader long after the book is finished."
—freshfiction.com

"Deft characterizations and eye for detail make this a winner...Satisfying, vintage Brown storytelling."
—Kirkus on DEADLINE

"Sandra Brown meticulously develops a stellar cast of characters, weaving them into a tense, gritty thriller that offers numerous plot twists leading to stunning revelations and a nail-biting conclusion....I'm now wondering why I waited so long to enjoy this talented author's work. I highly recommend Brown's Low Pressure. Its multilayered, intricate and suspenseful storyline is enriched with vivid descriptions and crisp dialogue. If you enjoy romantic suspense, Low Pressure is a book you'll want to read in one sitting."—USA Today on LOW PRESSURE

"A good old-fashioned thriller, and a winner..."—Kirkus on LOW PRESSURE

"Sexual tension fueled by mistrust between brash Denton and shy Bellamy smolders and sparks in teasing fashion throughout."—Publishers Weekly on LOW PRESSURE

"Hair-raising . . . a perfect mix of thriller and romantic suspense."—USA Today on LETHAL

"Pulse-pounding . . . a relentless pace and clever plot."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) on LETHAL

From the Publisher

DEADLINE is both a breathtaking and heartbreaking story; one that will stay with the reader long after the book is finished.

freshfiction.com

A marathon runner on a lonely mountain trail in North Carolina gets more than she bargained for in this excellent new suspense. Megastar Brown is at the top of her game, delivering a story that drops mysterious hints of past events. Just when readers think they’ve got things figured out, Brown pulls a clever twist. Settle back and enjoy!”

Top Pick) RT Book Reviews (4½ stars

Hair-raising . . . a perfect mix of thriller and romantic suspense.

USA Today on LETHAL

[A] solid novel of romantic suspense…Brown ends her gone-girl narrative with a surprising denouement that hits the reader like a well-aimed blow to the back of the head.”

Publishers Weekly

Pulse-pounding . . . a relentless pace and clever plot.

Publishers Weekly (starred review) on LETHAL

A good old-fashioned thriller, and a winner...

Kirkus on LOW PRESSURE

Sandra Brown meticulously develops a stellar cast of characters, weaving them into a tense, gritty thriller that offers numerous plot twists leading to stunning revelations and a nail-biting conclusion....I'm now wondering why I waited so long to enjoy this talented author's work. I highly recommend Brown's Low Pressure. Its multilayered, intricate and suspenseful storyline is enriched with vivid descriptions and crisp dialogue. If you enjoy romantic suspense, Low Pressure is a book you'll want to read in one sitting.

USA Today on LOW PRESSURE

The no-nonsense dialog and intense, twisty narrative will keep romantic suspense fans on edge until the final page.”

Library Journal (starred review)

Deft characterizations and eye for detail make this a winner...Satisfying, vintage Brown storytelling.

Kirkus on DEADLINE

Sexual tension fueled by mistrust between brash Denton and shy Bellamy smolders and sparks in teasing fashion throughout.

Publishers Weekly on LOW PRESSURE

2014-06-29
The perennially best-selling Brown checks in with another “woman-in-peril–hunky-guy-to-the-rescue” romantic thriller.Emory, a wealthy Atlanta-based pediatrician who runs marathons, is training for an upcoming race in a remote mountainous region of North Carolina. She's left behind her self-centered husband, Jeff, with whom she’s had one of their frequent arguments; that’s fine with Jeff, who plans to spend Emory’s absence with his mistress. But then Emory’s plans go very wrong. She wakes up injured and disoriented in a strange cabin with a tall, gorgeous man who refuses to divulge his identity. The mystery man tells her she had an accident on the trail and he brought her back there to recover. Emory suffered a head wound and is both woozy and mistrustful of the stranger, but after a day or so, when she feels well enough to leave, she discovers the mountain road is covered with ice, socked in with a pea-soup fog and not at all navigable, so she heads back to the cabin without even trying to get home. As Emory falls in love with the tall stranger, her petulant husband comes under scrutiny by two small-town police detectives who believe he might not be telling them everything about his missing wife. Brown throws in some steamy sex, a mysterious mistress and an FBI agent who's searching for the mystery man. Brown knows how to pace her stories so fans will keep turning the pages, but while her prose is clean and efficient, readers searching for characters who rise above the stereotypical will be sorely disappointed in this plot-driven entry.Brown’s novels share several qualities: They’re entertaining, competently written, full of twists and turns, but ultimately forgettable.

Kirkus Reviews