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Hush
by
Kate White (Goodreads Author)
"New York Times" bestselling author and "Cosmopolitan"'s editor-in-chief returns with a sizzling, page-turning thriller in which an ordinary woman flees the scene of a murder--and realizes it's not just the law that's hunting her.
When Lake Warren learns that her husband, Jack, is suing for full custody of their two kids four months after their separation, she's pretty cert...more
When Lake Warren learns that her husband, Jack, is suing for full custody of their two kids four months after their separation, she's pretty cert...more
Hardcover, 352 pages
Published
March 2nd 2010
by Harper
(first published January 1st 2010)
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Lake Warren, a marketing consultant, is in the middle of a painful divorce. Depressed, she withdraws from all of her friends except for Molly, a casual friend whose persistence makes her a combination of confidant and coach. A divorcée herself, she likes to point out that she's been where Lake is now.
Four months into the divorce proceedings, just when Lake begins to accept that the divorce isn't necessarily a bad thing, her husband Jack decides he wants custody of their two young children. Her f...more
Four months into the divorce proceedings, just when Lake begins to accept that the divorce isn't necessarily a bad thing, her husband Jack decides he wants custody of their two young children. Her f...more
OK. Let me start by telling you that I absolutely COULD NOT put this book down. If you are a fan of the Law & Order shows.. this one is for you. This could easily have been an episode and it was a great thriller. Throughout the book I'm trying to read for clues and was trying to piece it together. Every time I thought that I had it figured out, something else got thrown in and it blew my theory on the crime.
I felt like the characters were easy to relate to- like if this were a real life thi...more
I felt like the characters were easy to relate to- like if this were a real life thi...more
SYNOPSIS -Four months after their separation, marketing consultant Lake Warren faces a tough legal battle with her husband, Jack, for custody of their two kids. Though the timing couldn't be worse, she finds herself responding to the flirtations of Dr. Mark Keaton, her handsome colleague at the Advanced Fertility Center. But the morning after their one-night stand, Lake discovers Keaton with his throat slashed.
Afraid of losing her children forever, Lake lies to the police—and begins searching f...more
Afraid of losing her children forever, Lake lies to the police—and begins searching f...more
Lake Warren is in the middle of a terrible custody battle with her ex. On her first outing with a charismatic fertility doctor (while her kids are away at camp), the date ends with is murder, and Lake is a wreck. She was in the apartment with the killer but she saw no one.
Would you remain silent? I think I might.
The fertility clinic, where Lake is working as a consultant, is a hotbed of gossip and speculation.
The police keep questioning her as she scrambles to solve the murder, and clear herself...more
Would you remain silent? I think I might.
The fertility clinic, where Lake is working as a consultant, is a hotbed of gossip and speculation.
The police keep questioning her as she scrambles to solve the murder, and clear herself...more
I don't read many mystery/thriller books, (mostly because I don't like the whole women-in-jeopardy-thing) but once I picked up Kate White's Hush, I found I couldn't put it down.
Lake Warren (why do they always have names like that?) is going through a bitter divorce, and now her soon-to-be ex is suing for full custody of their two children. She runs her own small marketing firm, and she is in the middle of working on a big presentation for a hot-shot fertility clinic.
She makes the mistake of slee...more
Lake Warren (why do they always have names like that?) is going through a bitter divorce, and now her soon-to-be ex is suing for full custody of their two children. She runs her own small marketing firm, and she is in the middle of working on a big presentation for a hot-shot fertility clinic.
She makes the mistake of slee...more
I caught up with the multi-talented Kate White, editor-in-chief of Cosmo and author of the enormously popular Bailey Weggins mystery series. She stopped by to talk about HUSH and how she juggles her complicated life, why she’s writing a book on time management, and where she finds her inspiration.
Q: HUSH is your first stand-alone thriller. I wondered, why a stand-alone thriller, and why now?
A: Well, as we know at Cosmo, sometimes even the best relationships need a break. I love writing the Bai...more
Q: HUSH is your first stand-alone thriller. I wondered, why a stand-alone thriller, and why now?
A: Well, as we know at Cosmo, sometimes even the best relationships need a break. I love writing the Bai...more
Lake Warren is going through a messy separation with her husband Jack. After settling for shared custody he is now suing for full custody of their two children. Things, however, are going well with her job at a fertility clinic as a marketing consultant. The fertility clinic specializes in helping the over-forty crowd conceive. When the new doctor on staff Dr. Keaton starts flirting with her Lake responds and finds herself in his bed. But the next morning finds him with his throat slashed and La...more
Lake Warren is going through a messy separation with her husband Jack. After settling for shared custody he is now suing for full custody of their two children. Things, however, are going well with her job at a fertility clinic as a marketing consultant. The fertility clinic specializes in helping the over-forty crowd conceive. When the new doctor on staff Dr. Keaton starts flirting with her Lake responds and finds herself in his bed. But the next morning finds him with his throat slashed and La...more
This book certainly has an interesting premise: woman sleeps with a colleague and wakes up to find him murdered. She can’t go to the police, not even when she feels someone is after her, because she’s in a bitter custody battle. What a way to raise the stakes right off the bat. Any parent would totally get that. There were times later in the book where I thought, “okay she really needs to go to the police now” but still I understood Lake’s reasons for keeping quiet.
That said, this book was hard...more
That said, this book was hard...more
Lake Warren is running a busy marketing firm and is hired by a Manhattan fertility clinic to devise a new marketing plan for the busy clinic. Her personal life is not going as well as her business though and she finds herself in the middle of a divorce battling for the custody of her children. Her lawyer’s best advice that he can give her is to not get involved in any relationships or engage in any behavior that can upset this custody battle.
Just days later following a company dinner, she is se...more
Just days later following a company dinner, she is se...more
Mar 01, 2011
Staci
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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"Lake opened her mouth to scream but nothing came out. her breath seemed dead-bolted in her chest. She knew she needed to get closer, to check if Keaton was alive. But she couldn't move." [p.37]
....With that kind of writing this book had me turning the pages and not wanting to stop reading until I had finished the story. I really needed to know who killed Keaton and why. At the beginning I liked Lake and could totally commiserate with her in regards to having a vindictive ex-spouse. But as the...more
I thought this was a really fun mystery/thriller - I read it easily in a weekend, and it had good characters and enough fun twists to keep me entertained. I had no idea what was going to happen/who the killer was and was nervous for the protagonist (Lake), her poor cat, and her kids.
One thing that can really irritate me in books with plots like this is how the protagonist will do something really stupid to get them into bad situations (i.e., the girl running upstairs instead of out the door in...more
One thing that can really irritate me in books with plots like this is how the protagonist will do something really stupid to get them into bad situations (i.e., the girl running upstairs instead of out the door in...more
Talk about a roller coaster - that is what I would sum this book up as. It's a thrill ride from beginning to end. Hush is the first book I have read from author Kate White, though I have been wanting to read her Bailey Weggins series. I was intrigued on how the Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan magazine would pull off a thriller and I have to say she does a great job with it.
I liked Lake from the beginning (though I kept wanting to read her name as Luke - Lake is just different). She is a woman wh...more
I liked Lake from the beginning (though I kept wanting to read her name as Luke - Lake is just different). She is a woman wh...more
Lake Warren is a marketing consultant. Her current client is an infertility clinic. Lake is currently going through a nasty divorce. Her ex-husband wants full custody of the children in order to try and get Lake to claim less in the settlement.
Lake goes home with one of the doctors at the infertility clinic and wakes to find him murdered in bed. Instead of calling the police, Lake leaves the house and pretends she was never there. This was Lake’s biggest mistake. The killer has targeted Lake. I...more
Lake goes home with one of the doctors at the infertility clinic and wakes to find him murdered in bed. Instead of calling the police, Lake leaves the house and pretends she was never there. This was Lake’s biggest mistake. The killer has targeted Lake. I...more
In Hush, Lake Warren, a marketing consultant for a fertility clinic, is fighting with her soon-to-be-ex husband over the custody of her two children. After a night of indiscretion with one of the doctor at the clinic, she awakens the next morning, to find him murdered. Since any impropriety on her part could be used against her in the custody case, she decides to tell no one about it and flees the scene. When the police start snooping around, she lies to them. After awhile they start zeroing in...more
I am a huge fan of Kate White's Bailey Weggins series, so I was excited to try something new from her. I thought the mystery was very good, one of those that really keep you guessing until the very end. The story was somewhat original with the mixture of the suspicious fertility clinic, waking up with the dead guy, and the problematic relationship with the soon-to-be ex husband. The main character was kinda likeable...I had a real problem with her absolute bold behavior and her constant running...more
New York Times bestselling author and Cosmopolitan's editor-in-chief returns with a sizzling, page-turning thriller in which an ordinary woman flees the scene of a murder—and realizes it's not just the law that's hunting her.
When Lake Warren learns that her husband, Jack, is suing for full custody of their two kids four months after their separation, she's pretty certain that things can't get any worse. The upside is that she's working with the Advanced Fertility Center as a marketing consultant...more
When Lake Warren learns that her husband, Jack, is suing for full custody of their two kids four months after their separation, she's pretty certain that things can't get any worse. The upside is that she's working with the Advanced Fertility Center as a marketing consultant...more
Wow, was I super-impressed with this book! This is my first time reading a novel by Kate White but I'll be looking into other works of hers after reading this. The opening scene is a real attention-grabber and actually got my heart racing as I read it. I was hooked. I loved the twists and turns the book took and was able to keep the different characters straight. Kate White has a way of inserting little "hints" or descriptions that made me think "wow, did the main character get that?!? Maybe thi...more
I would probably give this book 2.5 stars. The story was decent but the abundance of characters made it hard for me to keep them all straight in my head. I was surprised by the ending, but by that point I was really just reading to get it over. Not a real page turner in my opinion.
This was the first novel of Kate White's that I have read. I enjoyed reading this book, and finished it rather quickly. It was hard to put down and I found myself thinking about the story when I wasn't reading it. I picked it up thinking it would be more romance than thriller, but there was very little romance in this novel. I thought this book wouldn't fall into the category of what a friend and I refer to as "glossy pink, unrealistic fluff novel." These books tend to have glossy pink covers, a...more
Jun 14, 2010
Lyn M (readinghearts)
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Laurie, Donna, Marilyn,
Recommended to Lyn M (readinghearts) by:
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I definitely enjoyed this one and am giving it 4 stars. The thing is, I am not sure how to classify it. It was part murder mystery, part thriller, and part chick-lit. It wasn't as edge on your seat as some of the thrillers I've read, but the story did capture and hold my interest, and the ending was good.
The protagonist in this book is Lake Warren, a woman who is going through a messy divorce and custody battle, only to find her life threatened. Is it the husband trying to discredit her as a mo...more
The protagonist in this book is Lake Warren, a woman who is going through a messy divorce and custody battle, only to find her life threatened. Is it the husband trying to discredit her as a mo...more
I’m going to get straight to the point. I didn’t like this. Not only is Lake’s name ridiculous, most of her actions are ridiculous. She seems to be allergic to the police, no matter what sort of danger or harassment has befallen her, all with the weak excuse of "if anything bad is connected with me, my ex-husband will steal my kids!". It just didn’t hold together for me. I thought she was infuriatingly stupid. With infertility treatment being a burgeoning issue, this could have been an interesti...more
I enjoyed this story. The characters were interesting, the plot moved along well with many interesting twists. It would be hard to categorize. I suppose I'd call it mystery/suspense with a healthy dash of romance.
My only real criticism lies in the poor judgement of Lake Warren, the protagonist, who refuses to contact the police with what she knows about a murder for fear of jeopardizing custody of her two children in a divorce action with her husband. While if find that understandable to a degre...more
My only real criticism lies in the poor judgement of Lake Warren, the protagonist, who refuses to contact the police with what she knows about a murder for fear of jeopardizing custody of her two children in a divorce action with her husband. While if find that understandable to a degre...more
If you are in the mood for a light comtemporary mystery, this is the right book. I just happened to come across this book in the Library and it was a refreshing change of pace being in the "lighter" mystery genre. I sometimes get a little disgusted with all the blood and gore in most of the murder mysteries I read, and when I read to many of them in a row, I feel the need to take a break. This was the right break. I fully enjoyed this fast paced read, and it introduced me to this author and I th...more
I was disappointed in this book by Kate White. I've read some of her other mysteries and found them to be enjoyable. This one, however, left me unsatisfied. There were just too many things going on. It's as if the author was trying to give ten potential explanations for every thing that happened so that we wouldn't guess 'who done it'. In the end, it was basically all smoke and mirrors. I didn't especially care for or about the main character, either. She simply didn't ring true.
It's a good thi...more
It's a good thi...more
This was a juicy, fast-paced murder mystery with a medical background - my kind of book. Lake Warren is a divorcee mother undergoing a fierce custody battle for her 2 children, who doesnot want any black mark against her name, even an innocent date. She is tempted for a one night stand by a doctor working in an infertility centre, where she is currently employed as a marketing/publicity personnel and finds herself in the soup. Things start unravelling for her very soon and she finds that the inf...more
Lake Warren is a woman that has enough on her plate, when her husband Jack is suing for full custody for her two children, just merely four months after their separation. As a marketing consulting, she catches the eye of a handsome stranger with blue eyes that goes by the name Dr. Keaton. The attraction she feels for him is growing rapidly, soon she gives into temptation. After one blissful night with him, she wakes up, distraught to him murdered with his throat slashed. Fearing for her life, sh...more
I got this book from Barnes&Noble's bargain priced books, and I'm glad I didn't pay more than $6 for it. The plot was slow and seemed to drag on. I kept reading only so I could be finished with it. When there was only a few pages left, it seemed as if White realized that there were things she left unexplained, and just bs-ed the last five pages. I didn't care for the writing style either. It didn't capture my attention or engross me in the story at all. White included too many "what-if" stat...more
Lake Warren is going thru a very difficult divorce as her soon-to-be ex wants full custody of the children. Not only that, it seems that she's come across a perplexing mystery at the fertility clinic, where she's working, a mystery that could get her killed. However, she's determined to figure out what's going on.
Granted the two events going on her life would make any book interesting to read, this one leaves you feeling gypped. It does grab your attention at the start making you want to read o...more
Granted the two events going on her life would make any book interesting to read, this one leaves you feeling gypped. It does grab your attention at the start making you want to read o...more
When you think the worst has happened, how will you cope with something even more malevolent? These are questions for our heroine Lake Warren. Finding out that her estranged husband Jack is suing for custody of their children seemingly pales when, after a one-night stand with a colleague, Lake finds him murdered in the bed. And from there, things turn even more deadly.
She knows that her presence at the victim's apartment will arouse suspicion, so she doesn't turn to the police...Her custody case...more
She knows that her presence at the victim's apartment will arouse suspicion, so she doesn't turn to the police...Her custody case...more
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Kate White is recognized internationally as not only the former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, the bestselling young women’s magazine in the world, but also the critically acclaimed author of both fiction and nonfiction books. Few high-profile editors have successfully balanced the rigors of overseeing a major magazine with a thriving and independent writing career.
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