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Where There's Smoke
by
Sandra Brown (Goodreads Author)
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown stuns readers with the breathtaking tale of a powerful oil company and the incredible lengths they'll go to keep their secrets hidden . . . No one knows why Dr. Lara Mallory came back home to Eden Pass, Texas to open up her medical practice after all these years. But everyone remembers her role in the well-publicized scanda...more
Paperback, 512 pages
Published
May 1st 1994
by Grand Central Publishing (Formerly Warner Books)
(first published 1993)
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Dr. Lara Mallory is a fallen woman since a tabloid incident involving her and Senator Clark Tackett. She had been married at the time, and found anything but a forgiving attitude following the scandal. Finally, after Clark Tackett dies and leaves her a medical practice in his home town of Eden Pass, Texas, she decides to start over there. Besides, she believes the Tackett family owes her, and she’s in town to collect a favor from Clark’s younger brother, notorious playboy Key. Things are even to...more
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Goodreads Puanı 5/3,77 Ben 5 üzerinden 5 veriyorum bu romana..Şimdiki günümüz de okuduğumz romanların çoğundan çok daha iyi idi hikaye..
Bence 1994 yılinda Altin Kitaplardan çıkmış bu romani bulabilen sakın kaçırmasın.
Yazarın kalem gücüne hayran kaldim.Kurgulamadaki üstünlügüne. Yok yok bu romanda ask,tutku,macera,intikam ne ararsan var.
Uzun zaman önce bulmuş ama okumamıstim. Bu kadar geçe bıraktigıma çok pişman oldum.
Hikayenin karakterleri ise bol hepsinin bir hi...more
Goodreads Puanı 5/3,77 Ben 5 üzerinden 5 veriyorum bu romana..Şimdiki günümüz de okuduğumz romanların çoğundan çok daha iyi idi hikaye..
Bence 1994 yılinda Altin Kitaplardan çıkmış bu romani bulabilen sakın kaçırmasın.
Yazarın kalem gücüne hayran kaldim.Kurgulamadaki üstünlügüne. Yok yok bu romanda ask,tutku,macera,intikam ne ararsan var.
Uzun zaman önce bulmuş ama okumamıstim. Bu kadar geçe bıraktigıma çok pişman oldum.
Hikayenin karakterleri ise bol hepsinin bir hi...more
Nov 07, 2011
Liz Collins
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3.5 stars rounded down for Amazon. I was hoping for a romance novel, but this was more of a mystery. I was annoyed with parts of the story.
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I was mad at Lara toward the end. Key deserved to be told all truths, but Lara chose to keep secrets from him. She didn't tell him that Clark was gay because she didn't want him to be hurt. Her logic was wrong because Key thought she didn't want him when she really did. Another problem: on the night of explosion, Jody left home to stop Janell...more
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I was mad at Lara toward the end. Key deserved to be told all truths, but Lara chose to keep secrets from him. She didn't tell him that Clark was gay because she didn't want him to be hurt. Her logic was wrong because Key thought she didn't want him when she really did. Another problem: on the night of explosion, Jody left home to stop Janell...more
3.5* Where There's Smoke is a romantic suspense in that it places the relationship of the two main characters in the forefront of the readers mind, if not the forefront of the action. The reader is constantly aware that Key and Lara will end up together, as in any romance book. But after establishing that fact, Brown seems fairly unconcerned with the romance and more with the layered suspense and mystery plot lines. The more satisfying relationship development takes place between two secondary c...more
Alright, so I bought this book because I had remembered liking another book by Sandra Brown (the title escapes me now.) I don't recall even reading the cover to see what the main gist of the book would be. I briefly read a sentence or two of the back cover before actually reading it, but assumed it would have all the romance that I desired. I was let down. This is not a erotic romance sort of book. It has some graphic language yes, but any scenes that could even be considered "sexy" were pretty...more
This book was one of the slower sandra brown reads for me in a while. Usually within the first few chapters im sucked in and flipping pages as fast as i can read. This book started gettting exciting and speeding up somewhere between 1/2 and 3/4 the way in. However, having said that i have spent some late nights up reading on and on and enjoyed the story/ plot thicken when it picked up. Im about 20 pages from the end. So its starting to wrap up and i want to give it a review again at the end. Im...more
This is an intriguing read and difficult to put down. I have read several of Sandra's romantic/suspense novels and this is one of her best. The story line is complex and the characters well developed. I really liked Lara, the heroine. She is a strong, intelligent, kind hearted woman. There are several evil characters in this book to contrast with Lara's goodness. It is amazing all the challenges she faces and still remains sane! There were several occasions that she could have been vindictive, b...more
tidak menyangkah...
Sandra Brown memang keren, tidak menyangka akhirnya akan seperti itu. bahwa seseorang bisa di hujat habis-habisan mengalami banyak penderitaan yang terkesan merupakan buntut dari kesalahaannya. tapi ternyata pada akhirnya dia tidak melakukan apapun sama sekali, huft....
hebat sekali intriknya, rumit, dan menengangkan, bikin emosi up and down persis saat sedang senam, hhahaa... tapi akhirnya selalu manis. aku selalu percaya pada Sandra Brown untuk tidak merasa desperate setelah...more
Sandra Brown memang keren, tidak menyangka akhirnya akan seperti itu. bahwa seseorang bisa di hujat habis-habisan mengalami banyak penderitaan yang terkesan merupakan buntut dari kesalahaannya. tapi ternyata pada akhirnya dia tidak melakukan apapun sama sekali, huft....
hebat sekali intriknya, rumit, dan menengangkan, bikin emosi up and down persis saat sedang senam, hhahaa... tapi akhirnya selalu manis. aku selalu percaya pada Sandra Brown untuk tidak merasa desperate setelah...more
I was one of the lucky winners of the goodreads first reads program. I've enjoyed a lot of books by Sandra Brown so far, but this one is currently my favorite.
Feuer in Eden (Where There's Smoke) is a really complex story about Dr. Lara Mallory and Key Tackett, the son of a texan oil-dynasty.
Lara Mallory is said to have been involved with Key's brother,Clay , a senator, while being married. When the affair became public, Lara and her ambassador husband are forced to accept a position in a war co...more
Feuer in Eden (Where There's Smoke) is a really complex story about Dr. Lara Mallory and Key Tackett, the son of a texan oil-dynasty.
Lara Mallory is said to have been involved with Key's brother,Clay , a senator, while being married. When the affair became public, Lara and her ambassador husband are forced to accept a position in a war co...more
I had read this book a long time ago and didn't recognize it until I was into it again. Lara shows up in Eden Pass, Texas. She was given a medical practice by Clark Tackett, a former Senator, now deceased. Lara and Clark had a scandal erupt around them 5 years ago. Lara and her husband were exiled to a Central American hellhole where Lara's baby daughter and husband were killed. She comes to Eden Pass to try and make her medical practice work, but Jody, Clark's mother, wants her gone. She owns a...more
Where There's Smoke by Sandra Brown is a book about a Dr. that goes back to a small town in Texas to start an new practice where she is definatlely not wanted !She has to see about making a life for herself. She was invalved with a man whoes relatives more or less controll the town. They are trying to stop her and make her leave any way they can.There is a reason why she went there and I'm waiting to see what it is. The story has a lot of twists and turns and will keep you guessing whats going t...more
Hmmm...I didn't seem to enjoy this particular Brown novel as much as I have some her other's. Ca la vie!
"No one knows why Lara Mallory opens up her medical practice in the rowdy Texas town where Tackett Oil owns everything. But everyone remembers her role in the well-publicized scandal that caused the downfall of White House hopeful Senator Clark Tackett. Now the iron-fisted matriarch of Tackett Oil intends to use her money and power to drive Lara out of town...especially when Lara meets Key, th...more
"No one knows why Lara Mallory opens up her medical practice in the rowdy Texas town where Tackett Oil owns everything. But everyone remembers her role in the well-publicized scandal that caused the downfall of White House hopeful Senator Clark Tackett. Now the iron-fisted matriarch of Tackett Oil intends to use her money and power to drive Lara out of town...especially when Lara meets Key, th...more
May 09, 2013
ஐ Canan ஐ `·.¸¸.·´´¯`··._
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Offf Offf Offff!
Nasıl bir kitaptı bu...
Bir bakmışsınız Teksas'ta bir bakmışsınız medeniyetten uzakta bir ülkedesiniz.
Özellikle son 30-35 sayfası yok muydu? Olaylar adeta uçarcasına sürükleyici bir hızla oldu bitti.
Kitabın konusuna değineyim az biraz...
Kadın karakterimiz Lara Malory.Doktordur kendileri.
Erkek karakterimiz Key Tackett.Serbest pilot.
Olaylar Eden Geçidinde yaşanmakta.Lara Bu kasabaya doktor olarak çalışmaya gelmiş ve bir muayane açmıştır.
Key ise kız kardeşi Janellen'in çağrısı üzerin...more
Nasıl bir kitaptı bu...
Bir bakmışsınız Teksas'ta bir bakmışsınız medeniyetten uzakta bir ülkedesiniz.
Özellikle son 30-35 sayfası yok muydu? Olaylar adeta uçarcasına sürükleyici bir hızla oldu bitti.
Kitabın konusuna değineyim az biraz...
Kadın karakterimiz Lara Malory.Doktordur kendileri.
Erkek karakterimiz Key Tackett.Serbest pilot.
Olaylar Eden Geçidinde yaşanmakta.Lara Bu kasabaya doktor olarak çalışmaya gelmiş ve bir muayane açmıştır.
Key ise kız kardeşi Janellen'in çağrısı üzerin...more
First off: I got this book as a goodreads giveaway.
I always wanted to read something by Sandra Brown and I’m grateful for the signed copy of her book. But, sadly, after reading close to a hundred pages of the novel I have to say that it isn’t mine.
There’s certain romance tropes that I can’t stand much, and one of them is to start out with a as irredeemable appearing male main character as possible, and Key, the books male hero, is a role model in that department. Lead character Key hates Lara, o...more
I always wanted to read something by Sandra Brown and I’m grateful for the signed copy of her book. But, sadly, after reading close to a hundred pages of the novel I have to say that it isn’t mine.
There’s certain romance tropes that I can’t stand much, and one of them is to start out with a as irredeemable appearing male main character as possible, and Key, the books male hero, is a role model in that department. Lead character Key hates Lara, o...more
Jul 20, 2008
Gramedia Pustaka Utama
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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Buku ini termasuk genre suspense SB. Melihat bukunya yang sangat tebal sepertinya agak malas untuk membacanya, namun begitu kita mulai membaca, ceritanya sangat seru sehingga dijamin kita tidak bisa berhenti membaca sampai di akhir cerita, untuk mengetahui akhir cerita ini.
Perseturuan antara keluarga Tackett dengan seorang dokter wanita bernama Lara Mallory. Lara yang sudah menikah, dituduh berselingkuh dengan Senator Clark Tackett, sehingga menimbulkan sebuah skandal yang akhirnya menjatuhkan k...more
Perseturuan antara keluarga Tackett dengan seorang dokter wanita bernama Lara Mallory. Lara yang sudah menikah, dituduh berselingkuh dengan Senator Clark Tackett, sehingga menimbulkan sebuah skandal yang akhirnya menjatuhkan k...more
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My husband and I listened to this one on a car trip to visit relatives. I didn't like it much because the characters hated each other and kept insulting and criticizing each other. It was just so negative! But it was a realistic fiction mystery about a lady doctor who supposedly had an affair with a congressman who kills himself after he purchased and then left her a family practice in his hometown after that local doctor had retired.
This novel, like the other ones I have read by Ms. Brown, was pretty good. She knows how to weave a tale.
This was a romance with thriller elements. The female characters are represented as strong willed women, who know how to get what they want, just not always in an above board fashion.
There were many incidences of "karmic retribution", and twisty redemptions. I have to admit here that I had already figured out one of the big reveals beforehand, but was more than satisfied with a number of surp...more
This was a romance with thriller elements. The female characters are represented as strong willed women, who know how to get what they want, just not always in an above board fashion.
There were many incidences of "karmic retribution", and twisty redemptions. I have to admit here that I had already figured out one of the big reveals beforehand, but was more than satisfied with a number of surp...more
Welch einen Grund hat die junge Ärztin Lara Mallory, sich ausgerechnet in Eden Pass, einem verkommenen Nest in der heißesten Hölle von Texas, niederzulassen? Seit Jahrzehnten hat dort der Tackett-Clan vom Öl über die Supermarktkette bis zum Sheriff alles in der Hand. Lara, inzwischen Witwe eines Washingtoner Diplomaten, war die zentrale Figur in einem Sexskandal um einen jungen, hoffnungsvollen Senator, an dessen Sturz und späterem Tod sie angeblich nicht ganz unschuldig war: Clark Tackett. Scho...more
Sandra Brown combines a story with a twist, drinking, brawling, small town manipulation and straight-forward sex scenes in a story set in small town Texas. What more could you want?
This author has a straight-forward manner about her storytelling which fits it perfectly for the oilfield environment she creates. She captures the native Texan attitude and small town politics perfectly!
Enjoy!
Received 6/24/11 from the Goodreads' Giveaway program.
This author has a straight-forward manner about her storytelling which fits it perfectly for the oilfield environment she creates. She captures the native Texan attitude and small town politics perfectly!
Enjoy!
Received 6/24/11 from the Goodreads' Giveaway program.
This Sandra Brown novel was a bit slow for me. I didn't warm to the main characters as much as others of her characters and the plot was a bit far fetched. The publishers blurb wasn't really accurate either now that I have gone back and read it but too late now. Still enjoyed it enough to read it in two days so that can't be all bad.
I must agree with my friends. Best Sandra Brown book I've read. She is an amazing author with unexpected twists and turns and I was most definitely NOT disappointed in this book. Shocking revelations in the last 40 pages or so. Wow. Might be one that I actually read again, in digital format of course, will be passing this on to my sister insisting she read it first!!
Dr. Laura Mallory is a fallen woman ever since the media found out about her affair with a Senator. It's a total surprise when she opens her practice in the tiny town that Senator Tackett was from. This book kept me interested, even when I figured things out early on. Sandra Brown sure knows how to write some steamy sex scenes:)
I absolutely love this book! I am a huge sandra brown fan. I.love her romance novels they always leave me happy. This one was suspense/romance. There were a bunch of twists I wouldnt have EVER expected. I def. Think this is one of my faves of her. Then again I havent really found a book of hers I didnt like.
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Sandra Brown is the author of sixty-one New York Times bestsellers, including LETHAL (2011), TOUGH CUSTOMER (2010), SMASH CUT (2009), SMOKE SCREEN (2008), PLAY DIRTY (2007), RICOCHET (2006), CHILL FACTOR (2005), WHITE HOT (2004), HELLO, DARKNESS (2003), THE CRUSH (2002), a...more
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Sandra Brown is the author of sixty-one New York Times bestsellers, including LETHAL (2011), TOUGH CUSTOMER (2010), SMASH CUT (2009), SMOKE SCREEN (2008), PLAY DIRTY (2007), RICOCHET (2006), CHILL FACTOR (2005), WHITE HOT (2004), HELLO, DARKNESS (2003), THE CRUSH (2002), a...more
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