In All the Wrong Places

by Donna Anders

Hailed by Ann Rule as "one of the masters of the kind of suspense that goes beyond stark terror," Donna Anders returns with an electrifying thriller about a woman whose fame attracts a fan's murderous attention.... Home-shopping fans everywhere adore Carolyn she's the beautiful, outgoing hostess of the Atlanta-based National Neighborhood Network. Gifted with a perfect look and a vivacious on-air personality, her phenomenal success is owed to one simple her fans love the way she shares her life stories, and how she makes them feel like her friends. But Carolyn may have shared too much. She's receiving strange phone calls at home, and has the feeling that she is being watched wherever she goes. After a series of unsettling and frightening coincidences push her to the edge of paranoia, Carolyn realizes that someone out there wants much more of her than she's willing to give. And if she cannot be had, she most certainly can be killed....

Genres: Mystery

432 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 26, 2002

About the author

Donna Anders was in her early twenties when she made her first sale, a poem she sold to a children's magazine for $1.00. From those early years of writing juvenile poems and stories, to historical novels that balanced her life through some hard times, to suspense thrillers when she wrote about terror from her own experiences, Donna became a writer for life.

Reviews

[Betty Stoneking · Rating 5 out of 5]

it was very good book.

[Marci · Rating 1 out of 5]

I only read this book because of the Ann Rule review. I was disappointed. There was too much of nothing for about the first 200 pages. I forced myself to finish the book.

[Michelle for Dona McLaughlin · Rating 2 out of 5]

just okay

[Lori · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is a good filler - - a good book for a plane trip or to pass the time. There is nothing standout wrong with the book, the basic storyline is good, if it is a bit unbelievable when all is revealed at the end. The premise is that a single career woman is being watched and stalked by an "admirer" who sees her on t.v. Sure, that story has been done before and it certainly could have been an edge of your seat thriller. The biggest problems with the book? Two things - - first, as the stalker/watcher was immediately evident from the time the character was introduced, the "whodunit" element of the book was lacking and therefore, it wasn't as suspenseful and/or scary as it could have been. Secondly, the heroine. As much as I wanted to like Carolyn, and did at points in the book, I also found it aggravating that a professional career woman as she was could be as ignorant and foolish. I don't think that a single career woman who lived alone and was receiving threatening phone calls, correspondences, etc. would do something as cliche as walk into her house at night, alone, after an intruder has been there, or walk into a dark parking lot at night, alone, after months of this stalking.
That aside, the book was a quick read and although the ending was neat and tidy and predictable, it gives the reader the ending you want.

[Tiina · Rating 2 out of 5]

The cover of the book promised terror, and I expected heavy suspense at least. No such thing though. Most suspense went to waiting for the main character to realise that she was being stalked. I did not find her long-lasting denial of this fact believable.

But I finished and did not stop in the middle, so that made the book earn its two stars. I would not read this again though.

[Sheree · Rating 4 out of 5]

Suspence, was high kept me intriged and jumpy for a while after I read it.

[Vivian · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5-star read

[SUE · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good story that kept you wondering who!!!! My intuition had the culprit pegged but couldn't figure out how the person was doing the actions. Very tense ending that was well written. This is a new author for me and will be looking for more of Donna's books.