White Lies

May 10, 2012 Lou rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery-thriller, arc

The story starts off with an atmospheric scenario. I was immersed throughout, the pace moved up notches right up to the ending where a highly tense situation takes place. He's created a suspenseful murder tale of what could happen to a young woman when she moves to a closed knitted town to teach and starts a lie. Then another person lies and then another and before you know it, you find yourself in a whole heap of trouble.

"Hell, this was all because of a lie gone wrong."

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Dec 29, 2012 Ashley rated it 1 of 5 stars

So far, this is one of the worst books I've ever read. Very poorly written ("nip this in the butt" ... was this book run past an editor before publication?) with characters who act in completely unbelievable ways. I'm going to keep reading because other reviews are so good, I feel like maybe I'm missing something? Maybe there is some redemption? There is promise of suspense (1/4 of the way in and no hint of it yet) and twists. The only suspense up to this point is wondering how long before this...more

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Nov 03, 2012 Robert Carraher rated it 3 of 5 stars

White Lies by Jeremy Bates tells the timeless story that all mothers impart to their children; “you tell one lie and you’ll end up telling another lie to support it.” That it is always better to tell the truth because you’ll remember the truth but eventually find yourself over your head when you tell a lie. The story starts when thirty-ish English teacher Katrina Burton driving to a small and charming village tucked away deep in the Mountains of eastern Washington, where she is to begin a new jo...more White Lies by Jeremy Bates tells the timeless story that all mothers impart to their children; “you tell one lie and you’ll end up telling another lie to support it.” That it is always better to tell the truth because you’ll remember the truth but eventually find yourself over your head when you tell a lie. The story starts when thirty-ish English teacher Katrina Burton driving to a small and charming village tucked away deep in the Mountains of eastern Washington, where she is to begin a new job and a new life. Kat has recently experienced a number of life-shaking events; her fiancée has died of a rare medical condition, her mother has died and left her financially comfortable, if feeling a profound loss and her only sibling has had some bad reactions to the loss of her mother and has been exhibiting some anti-social tendencies in reaction.

Katrina, driving through a ‘dark and stormy night’ picks up a young hitchhiker who turns out to be drunk and proves to be the epitome of the reason young women shouldn’t pick up hitchhikers. He acts predatory, makes lewd remarks, seems to be paying inappropriate attention to her and displays misogynistic tendencies. Fearful for her safety, she lies about her destination in order to get him out of the car. Continuing on her journey, she arrives at her destination and begins the process of settling in.

Then to her surprise and dismay she discovers on the first day on the new job that the hitchhiker is a new coworker, the somewhat brilliant philosophy teacher, who, though respected for his knowledge and ability to teach, is a well known drunkard, even on the job.

“White Lies” by Jeremy Bates Official TrailerWith its Hitchcock like over tones, White Lies falls into the psychological thriller genre. When the hitch hiker/fellow teacher suspects she was lying about living at the lake, she tells him its her vacation house. After all, she doesn’t have to rely on just her meager teachers salary to live on, her mother left her well off. But when he continues to challenge her, she spouts off that she is going to have a party at the lake house and invite all the teachers.

Soon she meets a tall, dark, handsome man who is just passing through town and they develop a romance. He encourages her to go ahead with the party, that she can rent a cabin easily. But soon, Katrina finds herself caught up in the net of having to tell more lies and it gets easier. Then it catches up with her with a vengeance. When the ever expanding web of lies lands Katrina as a witness to a murder, she must decide to come clean or to abet the cover up.

The story is fast paced and will appeal to readers of both sexes. The plot is somewhat familiar but the deeper it gets into the story it begs the reader to suspend belief as some of the situations and the protagonists reaction to them go against that characters development within the story. To complicate matters, a number of supporting characters are more caricature and seem to exist only to color the scenery. A bevy of drunken teachers cavorting n the dark around the lake as they are ignorant of a fight, a murder, and violent arguments going on around them seem like scenes lifted from a ‘B’ movie. And Katrina’s love interest seems totally out of character as she learns more and more about her lovers dark past, which is somewhat fantastical in itself.

Still, the scenery and sense of place make for a darkly drawn story and the action moves right along. The climax finally gives pause to answer the question of when a “white lie” turns bad, what do good people do?

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Sep 20, 2012 Barbara Jean Byrem rated it 5 of 5 stars

While I'm not normally a fan of Suspense/Thriller novels, White Lies by Jeremy Bates was an exceptional read. Not sure how to avoid a cliche here, because I literally could not put it down.

A dark stormy night, alone on a mountain highway, Katrina Burton does something that she normally never does. She picks up a hitchhiker. Filled with regret the minute the passenger door slams shut, Katrina goes on to do something totally against her character, she tells a 'little white lie' to get rid of her t...more

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Sep 17, 2012 Mallory Anne-Marie Forbes rated it 5 of 5 stars

Recommended to Mallory Anne-Marie by: Jeremy Bates

Shelves: september-2012-reads, september-reading-challenge-ntoyab

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“White Lies” is an amazing novel. I literally locked my door and did not stir away from my Kindle Fire until I had finished it-and then wished I could reread it immediately. I can’t rave enough about this book, except to say that it ought to be read by every aficionado of mystery, thriller, suspense-and by every student of writing. How could this novel be improved? I don’t believe it could be-I found it perfect as it is. The tension escalates to unbearable lev...more

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Sep 03, 2012 Nicola rated it 4 of 5 stars

Reason for Reading: The hitchhiker angle always intrigues me and the author's Canadian background interested me as well. Sounded like it would be a good read.

Right from the beginning we are placed with Katrina in a creepy situation as she picks up a hitchhiker only to find herself frightened and intimidated into throwing the man out of the car in the middle of a storm. Katrina is a likable main character right from the start, though she has a penchant for making decisions the reader may not alwa...more Reason for Reading: The hitchhiker angle always intrigues me and the author's Canadian background interested me as well. Sounded like it would be a good read.

Right from the beginning we are placed with Katrina in a creepy situation as she picks up a hitchhiker only to find herself frightened and intimidated into throwing the man out of the car in the middle of a storm. Katrina is a likable main character right from the start, though she has a penchant for making decisions the reader may not always agree with. She is in a vulnerable situation in her personal life and when a strong charismatic man comes along it is only too easy for her to fall under his spell. I found the situation plausible. Statistically many women find themselves in trouble because of the persuasions of their boyfriends but in this situation I thought Katrina started following the man's lead too soon. This was my only beef with the book; a longer, more controlling relationship needed to be established to have been more believable for Katrina to behave the way she did. The situation was plausible but just didn't quite feel totally believable because of this.

Putting that one aspect aside, I had a marvelous read with this book. I did not expect it to go in the direction it did. The write up on the back of my book is much more vague than the publisher's summary and I was surprised at who the "bad guy" turned out to be. The story deals with the moral issue of telling a lie. Katrina is hit with an almost Biblical vengeance when she tells one small white lie, because this one fib leads to another, leads to another, and so on, until the lies are no longer white, no longer, small. They become cover-ups for misdeeds that are not only ethically wrong but illegal and Katrina is driven knowing that it all started with her one little white lie. I enjoyed the fact that lapsed Catholic Katrina was pulled back to her faith during this time of turmoil and ended up in the confessional. From the theme of the moral consequences of lying to the positive portrayal of a priest and penitent in a confessional, (though penance was somewhat unrealistic) I would not be surprised to hear that the author has a Catholic background himself as he has done a fair and accurate portrayal of the Faith.

A thriller that is fast-paced with one crisis after another hitting the main characters until they hit desperation and a stand-off against the law at the end that will keep the reader on their toes unsure of how it will all play out in the end. Jeremy Bates is an exciting new voice on the thriller/suspense scene.(less)

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Aug 31, 2012 Deb rated it 5 of 5 stars

White Lies is a story of chaos, emotion, and suspense. The book is about choices and what-if’s. The main character, Katrina Burton, faces a series of choices in her life. One small lie leads to more small lies, resulting in a catastrophic series of events that spiral out of her control. As she is driving to her new job as a teacher, she picks up a hitchhiker who gives her the creeps. She has every right to be fearful so she tells a false truth to get him out of her car, never expecting to meet h...more

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Aug 31, 2012 Faye Heath rated it 3 of 5 stars

Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive. This is the moral of this story and it is pounded into your head again and again.

I debated between 2 and 3 stars, 2 1/2 being my actual choice, but since I couldn't do that I rounded up. The story was interesting enough to keep me reading but I found the characters to be two-dimensional at best.

The book opens with a young woman driving alone through the Cascades. It was a dark and stormy night. Really. She comes across a hitchhik...more

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Aug 20, 2012 Michelle/ The True Book Addict rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: ebook, horror-speculativefic-thriller-read, read-in-2012

There's an important lesson learned from this book. Telling white lies can come back and bite you in the ass...in a huge way.

At first, I didn't know what to think when I started reading. I thought it was going to just be a book about a woman being stalked by a guy she told a little fib too, which enraged him and turned him into a stalking psychopath. Man, was I ever wrong. Instead, the plot became a miasma of white lies snowballing one right after another. I can't go into much detail because I...more

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Aug 18, 2012 Christina rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, northwest

This book is a "thriller," a genre I usually avoid but here I made an exception because this was the Amazon kindle daily deal and was set in Leavenworth, WA. I can't resist books set in Washington, and was especially curious to see how accurately Leavenworth was portrayed since we spent a summer living there when I was a kid.

What I liked: the plot and pacing grabbed me and I read this book in one day. Points for that! It's about a woman who moves to Leavenworth to start a teaching job, but on he...more

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Aug 08, 2012 Book Him Danno rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, books-sent-by-author-publisher-for

White Lies is about the little lies that can destroy our lives when we are unwilling to tell the truth to impress others. Katrina Burton is starting a new job teaching English in the small town of Leavenworth, Washington. As she is driving into town she comes across a hitchhiker and decides to be a Good Samaritan. She soon finds out that sometimes being nice isn't always good. Katrina decides to throw the hitchhiker out of her car but does it with a little white lie which comes to haunt her the...more

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Aug 07, 2012 Misty Rayburn rated it 5 of 5 stars

Katrina Burton has a new job teaching high school English in a small town. On her way to her new home, she picks up a young hitchhiker and things get a little creepy when she finds he’s not only drunk but he’s looking at her with hungry eyes. Freaked out, Katrina lies about her destination in order to get him out of the car and one lie leads to another when she finds out he’s a teacher at the same school. Not knowing what else to do, she confides in a mysterious, handsome and charismatic man she...more

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Jul 27, 2012 Peri rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Ages 16+ (PG 16, sexual situations, language)

Recommended to Peri by: Literacy Word of the Day on Facebook

Shelves: exceptional

White Lies is, quite possibly, one of the top fifty books I've read in this genre. Top fifty sounds like a large grouping, but its less years than my unrevealed age, and I am a compulsive reader of the genre. Put that together, and Jeremy Bates' White Lies has rocketed to the top over thousands of others.

There are enough reviewers here who have given you snippets of the book in their own word's or Bates', so I'll just go straight to it: You need to buy this book. The tension builds from an entir...more

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May 06, 2012 Patricia rated it 5 of 5 stars

Katrina Burton is traveling to a new job teaching high school English at Cascade High School in Leavenworth, Washington. The last thing that ever occurred to Katrina was that this new life would start out with a white lie leading to another lie and another lie up to the point where Katrina finds herself lying to protect a murderer.

It all starts innocently enough when Katrina picks up a strange man on her way to Leavenworth. Katrina was well aware of the dangers of picking up strangers but the we...more Katrina Burton is traveling to a new job teaching high school English at Cascade High School in Leavenworth, Washington. The last thing that ever occurred to Katrina was that this new life would start out with a white lie leading to another lie and another lie up to the point where Katrina finds herself lying to protect a murderer.

It all starts innocently enough when Katrina picks up a strange man on her way to Leavenworth. Katrina was well aware of the dangers of picking up strangers but the weather was bad and there wasn't any traffic and Katrina felt guilty passing up the man. Once he got in the car with her and her dog, Bandit, Katrina began to have second thoughts. When she spotted a sign leading to a turnoff to Lake Wenatchee she told her first lie and said she had a place at the lake and dropped the man off at the turn. Katrina was relieved to be rid of the hitchhiker named Zach and felt sure she had seen the end of him.

Katrina and Bandit settled in the place that Katrina had rented and Katrina prepared for the first day of school. It turns out Zach Marshall not only lives in town but teaches in the high school where Katrina is going to begin her new career. To Katrina's horror, Zach announces to the other teachers that Katrina owns a cottage at the Lake and suggest she host a party for her new coworkers. Katrina is beside herself trying to figure out how to get out of the one little lie she told.

Jack Reeves is a man Katrina met at the local hardware store and she confides in Jack the problem about the party and the lake house. Jack comes up with a solution for Katrina to save face with her fellow workers. Though Katrina realizes it is not the best solution, she goes along with his suggestion.

Zach is a strange character. I disliked Zach at times but other times felt sympathy for him. Jack Reeves also has many sides to his personality. Katrina soon begins to realize that Jack may not be the person that originally caught her eye.

As the pages turn the reader soon realizes that with Reeves influence Katrina is digging herself a hole with half-truths and new lies. The characters in White Lies are strong and the suspense builds and builds. This is a book that leaves the reader wanting more. I will be looking for future books by this author.

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May 02, 2012 cupcake rated it 4 of 5 stars

One teeny little fib. It's no big deal, right? You pick up a hitchhiker during a torrential downpour, and even though he doesn't say anything threatening and even though he doesn't do anything threatening, you still just want to get him out of your car. So you lie. You say you're getting off at the next exit, 30 miles from your true destination.

No big deal, right?

Oh, it most certainly is a big deal in Jeremy Bates' White Lies, in which Katrina Burton's little white lie snowballs into a web of di...more

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Feb 09, 2012 Beadyjan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: psychological-chillers

A real page turner - one of those fast paced thrillers where you keep thinking "Nooo don't DO that" as the main character makes yet another bad decision you just know is going to impact by making things get worse - and worse.

I chose this from the books available to review at Netgalley and yet again was really pleased with my choice. I read this in just 2 days which is pretty good going for me - it doesn't mean it was a light, inconsequential read - just that I felt the need to keep reading ... j...more A real page turner - one of those fast paced thrillers where you keep thinking "Nooo don't DO that" as the main character makes yet another bad decision you just know is going to impact by making things get worse - and worse.

I chose this from the books available to review at Netgalley and yet again was really pleased with my choice. I read this in just 2 days which is pretty good going for me - it doesn't mean it was a light, inconsequential read - just that I felt the need to keep reading ... just a few more pages .... and ended up reading into the early hours.

OK so about the storyline. It begins with our heroine Katrina driving to a rural village in America to begin a new post as English teacher at the local school. She's ready to begin a new life as she is finally picking up the pieces after a tragedy left her reeling. Her renewed confidence leads her to feel generous enough to stop for a young guy stranded at the rainy roadside but soon begins to regret her decision when she questions his sobriety and his motives. Panicked and keen to get him out of the car she lies about where shes headed for and breathes a sigh of relief as she manages to get him out of her car.

Her horror when she arrives at her new job to find the same guy is one of her new colleagues now bearing a grudge against her and to cover up her little white lie, she tells another and then it becomes almost too difficult to tell the truth and silly white lies become falsehoods that haunt her every move.

Meanwhile she meets another man to whom her reaction and instincts are completely different - she is bowled over by the enigmatic and charismatic Jack and responds to him by falling for him - big time!

But events are beginning to spiral out of control, like ripples in a lake her white lie leads her to become involved in covering up a brutal murder, no longer sure who to trust she must reply on her instincts - instincts we are beginning to realise are no more reliable than her ability to tell the truth.

A cracking good suspense novel, easy and undemanding but a jolly exciting read, to curl up on a cold winters day in front of the fire with.

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Jan 11, 2013 Thomas Rose-Masters rated it 4 of 5 stars

What a roller-coaster. 'White Lies' by Jeremy Bates catches you off-guard with its very title - who amongst us has not told a white lie or three? We understand it, condone it, excuse it. But deep down we know that even white lies are just that - lies. So when the main character in this novel, Katrina, utters the first one, one knows things are just going to spiral out of control. Sounds familiar?

This is any person's worst nightmare - our selective reasoning catching up with us, and involving oth...more

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Aug 07, 2012 Heather rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012

This book had me from the beginning. Katrina lets a hitchhiker into her car and it turns out to be a disaster. She later finds out he's a teacher at the same school where she is teaching. Things get pretty tense between them and conflict ensues.

Then Katrina meets mystery man Jack. He's seems too good to be true. He's sweet, caring, and becomes her rock. He even gets her out of her little white lie. When they decide to host a party everything that was going so well suddenly collapses around th...more

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Jul 15, 2012 Carol MacInnis rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: crime-mystery

Thirty-two year old Katrina Burton and her six year old Boxer is on their way to a little town in Leavensworth where she has been offered a job teaching high school English. This is a new chapter in her life as two years ago the love of her life was taken away from her by a tragic fatal disease. On her way, she sees a hitchhiker ahead walking through this terrible rainstorm and decides to pick him up. But as the journey continues things begin to turn sour as the smell of alcohol on this young ma...more

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Aug 24, 2012 Tea Time with Marce rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: netgalley, read-on-kindle, review-request

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A simple innocent lie meets professional lies ending with murder. This was a thrilling novel, fast paced edge of your seat build up, pace is a strong point of Jeremy Bates. For those that enjoy Adult Fiction but want to try a Thriller go for this.

My main issue is the hitchhiking, who the hell still picks up hitchhikers this day in age. I am sorry, completely unbelievable which made me have the oh whatever feel while reading. And then it is Katrina's first day on the job and she reali...more From my blog

A simple innocent lie meets professional lies ending with murder. This was a thrilling novel, fast paced edge of your seat build up, pace is a strong point of Jeremy Bates. For those that enjoy Adult Fiction but want to try a Thriller go for this.

My main issue is the hitchhiking, who the hell still picks up hitchhikers this day in age. I am sorry, completely unbelievable which made me have the oh whatever feel while reading. And then it is Katrina's first day on the job and she realises Zach, the man she picked up will be her colleague. I was able to suspend belief and enjoy the circumstances that became thrilling and mysterious. Why the hitchhiker issue is big, seriously, it is a dark and stormy night........ really. Ok I am done with my vent but that took away a whole star rating. I cannot handle complete utter foolishness.

I wanted to like Katrina, but with every lie on top of another it just became this silly game of cat and mouse. I got the feeling Zach and her would end up together because they took to much time being concerned with each other and trying to have one up over the other. I'm not complaining this was entertaining to say the least.

Katrina then meets dark and handsome Jack and she is smitten, never using her head correctly and gets caught up. I then begin to realise they are both compulsive liars, she is remorseful but he totally gets the thrill of living on the edge.

We are compounded with lies and then murder. Instead of getting cops involved there are more lies to cover it up which of course leads to more murders and everyone is at risk and also scared to death of Jack.

You will not like any characters, you will think they are all fools and to think majority are suppose to be professionals, teachers, omg, what a scary thought but seriously you can only laugh at this.

After reading my review it may seem I didn't enjoy it but I did, after suspending my belief of course. The fast pace, thrill sold me, I was engaged. If your in the mood for a smoking hot book full of lies, give it a try. I can see White Lies on the big screen and be enjoyed by many.(less)

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Aug 22, 2012 Ruth Hill rated it 4 of 5 stars

What began as a light-hearted book quickly turned into an action-packed story of murder and deception. And I am still recovering from the ride! This is a book that took so many twists and turns, and it was crafted extremely well.

I was instantly drawn in since Katrina is a schoolteacher, and the story takes place in Leavenworth, Washington. It was nice to read about familiar environment and workplace. I actually got a good chuckle as Katrina's expense as her web of lies began to entrap her. In m...more

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Aug 30, 2012 Cathy Speight rated it 5 of 5 stars

Have you ever told a white lie…you know, to your mum when you’ve lied about where you’ve been, or to your husband about how much you spent on that divine pair of shoes, or to your employers about that cold that you—ahem—suddenly developed that Friday you wanted off work? Just a little white lie to get out of a sticky situation? Harmless? Perhaps, but it doesn’t quite work out that way for Katrina Burton…

In this an outstanding novel by Jeremy Bates, in which a seemingly harmless lie has unimagin...more

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Jul 25, 2012 Bj Gaskill rated it 5 of 5 stars

OMG!!!
You tell one lie...you can always correct yourself if you want, but if you keep telling lies well....
This story grabs you from the get go. You have to keep reading, the characters that Mr. Bates has created just scream "Guess what I'm going to do next!".
Katrina is a bit of a push over and it's understandable being that she hasn't really lived life for the past two years, but man oh man (LOL)!
Zach, even though he is brash, an BUTT, I really wanted to smack him ( a lot of the time), he does...more

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Jun 07, 2012 Kim (Wistfulskimmies Book Reviews) rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is the story of Katrina. She picks up a hitch-hiker on the way to moving to a new town. He is drunk and belligerent and to get him out of the car she tells a little white lie about where she lives. This is just the start of her problems. When she begins her new job as a teacher, she notices to her horror that her hitch-hiker is a fellow teacher at the same school. A chance meeting with a man, Jack, in a hardware store leads to Katrina falling in love with him. But Jack is not all he seems a...more

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Aug 11, 2012 Heidi rated it 3 of 5 stars

White lies is about the little lies that can destroy our lives when we are unwilling to tell the truth to impress others. Katrina Burton is starting a new job teaching English in the small town of Leavenworth, Washington. As she is driving into town she comes across a hitchhiker and decides to be a good Samaritan. She soon finds out that sometimes being nice isn't always good. Katrina decides to throw the hitchhiker out of her car but does it with a little white lie which comes to haunt her the...more

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Jul 04, 2012 Sue rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: suspense-thriller-mystery

I received a copy of White Lies" by Jeremy Bates through the Goodreads Giveaway Contest.

I loved this book . I was gripped right from the get go, and I couldn't put it down.The chapters were short, and I found I was nervously flipping the page to see what was going to happen next.

Katrina Burton was driving from Seattle along the Cascade Mountain Range in Northern Washington in a heavy downpour. She was heading to Leavenworth, where she had been offered a job teaching high school English.Her trave...more

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Aug 17, 2012 Pmcdnld2 rated it 3 of 5 stars

This had a great original premise-but I had trouble understanding some of the decisions made by the main character, a supposedly responsible high school teacher. Katrina is moving to a small town 2 hours from Seattle for a new start. She has buried her fiancee and mourned for some time. On her drive in a storm, she picks up a hitchhiker; he's drunk and she lies to him about where she lives to get him out of the car--but he is a teacher at her new high school! One little lie leads to some funny m...more

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Jun 26, 2012 Kayla rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: first-reads

In need of a fresh start Katrina Burton, also known as Kat by her friends; takes a step in a new direction & moves to Eastern Washington, after taking a teaching job. Along the way Katrina picks up a hitchhiker whom she soon fears is drunk and dangerous. Becoming fearful for her safety, the first white lie slips from her lips unaware of the consequences to come... Who would have thought in a million years that hitchhiker would turn out to be a fellow teacher at her new school? Caught between...more

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Aug 21, 2012 Rebekah rated it 2 of 5 stars

In order to enjoy this book at all you have to suspend your disbelief that 1) one lie told merely to get a Creepy McCreeperton out of her car would end up creating this much of a hullabaloo and 2) when given a chance to correct the 1st lie with little to no consequences the protagonist would choose to just tell another lie. If you can get beyond that, and the idea that the protagonist is totally fine with leaving her dog alone in the house for 24 hours just so she can party with a dude she just...more

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Sep 03, 2012 Sharlene rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: first-reads, thriller

This book was recieved as the result of a Goodreads giveaway.

Before I start, I have to say this has been a summer like no other...I received this book in early August and as soon as I could I was digging into this book...I had a feeling it was going to be right up my alley and had pretty high hopes for it. A few chapters into it and realized that I going to love it. I'm wondering if King and Koontz were inspirations to Bates, as the first chapter gave me chills! Suddenly, life seemed to get in t...more This book was recieved as the result of a Goodreads giveaway.

Before I start, I have to say this has been a summer like no other...I received this book in early August and as soon as I could I was digging into this book...I had a feeling it was going to be right up my alley and had pretty high hopes for it. A few chapters into it and realized that I going to love it. I'm wondering if King and Koontz were inspirations to Bates, as the first chapter gave me chills! Suddenly, life seemed to get in the way for me and this book...I had one of the worse feelings in my life when I left on a ten day holiday. I did the unthinkable, I left this book on the table by the door. A head slap and tears proceeded as I hate, hate, hate trying to pick up a book and figure out where I left off. Especially one that had reeled me in so quickly.

I returned home and after plowing through all the work on my desk, preparing for school and family projects I was finally able to pick up this book again...Cringing and worrying I may be lost...I am about to give out an ultimate compliment now, so pay attention, fellow readers...I was able to pick up exactly where I left off and felt like I was reunited with an old friend and was able to pick up EXACTLY where I left off. Fantastic writing, at its best coupled with a memorable story! It will keep you so engrossed that I must also warn that when someone stops to talk to you....put down the book for a second and make sure you hear what the kids or your spouse are asking...I said yes to things that I would never say yes to...I have loads to explain and a lot of honey do jobs that I would normally never have agreed to.

The characters are believable and have realistic flaws and weaknesses. The plot was exciting and kept me wondering,"What next!?" Future movie deal here perhaps? Let's hope so!

I look forward to reading more from this author and would recommend this book for those who enjoy a book that keeps you guessing over and over again. And if anything, it may make you think twice about picking up a hitch hiker....or will it?(less)

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