Don't Look Now: A Novel

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Defense attorney Clare Westbrook functions very well in crisis mode -- whether taking the media rap for an explosive case or bargaining with her teenaged niece, whom Clare is raising. But a shocking crime -- the murder of her notoriously unethical boss -- is about to test her heart and soul: heading the homicide investigation is irresistibly sexy detective Tony Sonterra. Now, a passion that is as risky as it is addictive pulls Clare into the crosshairs of a deadly mystery from the past. As the truth closes in and it becomes clear someone's targeting her, Clare and Tony embark on a twisting chase in the Arizona heat, where their dangerous desire sparks a determined hunt for a killer.

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"New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller turns up the heat in this sizzling tale of suspense and re-kindled passions set against the blazing skies of Arizona's lush desert landscape -- where a killer is determined to exact his revenge. When hard-working attorney Clare Westbrook learns that her ambulance-chasing boss has been murdered, she's shocked -- but not exactly surprised. Harvey Kredd was known for his less-than-ethical business dealings, and even his acts of generosity were tinged with greed; Clare, working at Kredd and Associates to pay off the law school loan Harvey had granted her several years before, knows she's got no choice: indentured servitude, twenty-first-century style. But Harvey's death doesn't let Clare out of her contract with the firm; instead it brings her a new, odious multimillionaire client, and Tony Sonterra, homicide detective and local heartthrob, who's not above using a murder investigation to get back into Clare's life. Jump-starting her affair with Tony is the last thing Clare needs -- she's got enough on her plate raising her niece, Emma, without throwing a bull-headed cop into the mix. Then Clare gets the news that may convince her Tony is exactly what she needs: Emma's father has been released from prison, and he's intent on seeing his daughter. Though she could never persuade the police to believe her, Clare is convinced that James Arren murdered her sister. With the same rich storytelling style that has captivated readers worldwide, Linda Lael Miller delivers a page-turning blend of heated passion and captivating suspense. "

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First in the "Look" trilogy.......2007-02-15

Don't Look Now is the first book in the "Look" trilogy, but definitely not the best. It is however, a good example of how this author formulates her novels. There are always more than one story line going on which isn't bad when done properly, but it can also confuse the reader if they are not familiar with her style of writing.

Clare Westbrook is a good lawyer working for a sleezeball, who is suddenly found murdered. She has an on again/off again relationship with a sexy cop, but neither one seem to be able to stand one another more than to jump into bed together. On top of that, someone is trying to kill Clare. The only problem is that the killer is a bit stupid and doesn't seem to know the difference between what Clare looks like and the women ending up dead in her place.

There is definitely a great deal going on in this novel, and an avid reader can tell that Linda Lael Miller must be a Janet Evanovich fan. Not only does she write in first person as JE, but tends to create the same carry over with the characters romance. She just isn't as funny and the characters aren't as colorful.

The author is however, good with most of her facts. I picked up this book out of curiosity because it takes place in the Carefree/Cave Creek area of Arizona, where I grew up most of my life. I wanted to know how well the author really did know the area. Other than a few minor details, she was fairly accurate on most accounts. It was obvious though that she is new to the area, because someone living in Carefree would never admit to living in Cave Creek. The two social areas are on completely different scales. A few other misconceptions made it a little comical to me knowing the difference, but to the average reader they would never know the difference.

Is it worth buying?

I'm up in the air on this one. I actually like the second one better "Never Look Back", but you kind of have to read the first book to get a feel for the characters, and definitely before you read the conclusion "One Last Look." Alone, this book is not worth it, and honestly as a series it is only mediocre. The suspense is good though and as long as you can keep up with the plots, it is okay. Checking it out from the library or getting it on sale or at a yard sale is better than spending full price though. At least then, you won't be disappointed if you hate it.

Don't Look Back.......2005-11-27

I absolutely loved this book. I read it in 3 days. They way Linda Lael Miller is so descriptive without going overboard is great. This is the first of the 3 book series and I have already bought the second one "Never Look Back." And the 3rd one "One Last Look." I highly reccommend this series. I also like how hot Tony Sonterra is in the book.

MOVE OVER JANET EVANOVICH!.......2005-08-31

Picked this up in the mystery section of my local library. I though LLM was a mushy romance novelist = well, she broke out here! Tension, delicious sarcasm, repartee, hunk of a hero and Clare is an angst ridden heroine.

Several different side stories kind of keep you on your toes. Set in Arizona, this was not a boring book. Emma and Beatrice are great! Tony is awesome. It has a few laughs and a pretty darn good mystery - diverting enuf that I almost didnt catch the killer until the end.

Several lawyers (Clare for one) in this book. I work with a lot like them and can recognize that "innocent until proven guilty" is so hard a concept to accept sometimes.

Am looking forward to LLM's Never Look Back, if I can find it.

loved it !! for adult readers that can handle more than one plot.......2005-08-10

I thought it was a great entertaining read and look forward to future books. The book was not full of the same cliches as the other romance books with only one plot. I was reminded of the stephanie plum series by Janet Evanovich.

Somebody is Trying to Kill Her .......2005-07-31

Attorney Clare Westbrook got a loan from Harvey Kredd to go to law school, however, now that she's finished, she has to work it off with his firm at slave's wages. Then somebody puts a bullet through Harvey's eyes and Janet Baylen, Harvey's second in command, takes over running the firm. She hands Clare the Dr. Netherton Case. The Doctor is a non-caring, butchering plastic surgeon who is being sued by a number of woman who are less than happy with his work. Netherton, it seems, has a crush on Clare or at the very least, thinks she'll be easy as the firm is dependent on his money for its survival.

So, the professional side of her life has her down. How about the personal side? Years ago her sister vanished and Clare was convinced her husband James Arren killed her. She testified against him, he went to jail and now he's getting out. He's always clamed he was innocent and now he wants to get custody of his thirteen-year-old daughter Emma, who Clare has been raising. Clare doesn't want Arren to even see the girl, but Emma apparently doesn't believe he killed her mother.

Yes, it seems like Clare's life is pretty much not going the way she'd like, she's got the horrid doc to defend, any day she has to face the man she knows killed her sister and her niece is being difficult. Add to the mix ex-lover, cop Tony Sonterra, who is investigating the murder of Kredd, a man the cops all called Krudd, because he got so many crooks off. She'd thought Tony was out of her life and now he's very much in it and she's not happy about it at all.

But things can only get better, right? Wrong. Clare goes grocery shopping and finds a woman with a bullet between her eyes behind the wheel of her car when she leaves the store. Then boss Janet is killed when she's sitting at Clare's desk. Next she sees a photo of her vanished sister on her computer screen. She's obviously dead. So now Clare knows for sure, but who sent the picture?

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Empty stories filled with senseless plots.
Twists & Turns at each Stop
4 stars because I did enjoy reading it even though...
a mixed bag of goodies from the great Daphne Du Maurier
Classic thrillers

Don't Look Now.
Daphne du Maurier
Manufacturer: DoubleDay
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Binding: Hardcover

ASIN: 0385087330

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Empty stories filled with senseless plots. .......2005-06-03

"Don't Look Now" is just one of many pointless, non-thriller, lackluster, poorly written short stories by Daphne du Maurier. I could not find a point in any of the five stories, and they all left me feeling empty. "Don't Look Now" was completely dim-witted and anti-climatic (as were all the stories). "The Breakthrough" did make me question science and at how much we want to live, but the characters were flat and lifeless. "Not After Midnight" felt like it was going on a downward spiral to nowhere land, without a point to be found. "A Border-Line Case" left me feeling repulsed and wondering what du Maurier was trying to say. "The Way of the Cross" made me wonder if du Maurier's way of thinking is that God gives people their comeuppance; I found the shifting narrator to be irksome and it showed how little the author gave her characters varying personalities. I closed this book realizing, that after these stories, along with "Rebecca," that du Maurier has a very monotone and bland style of writing; she often goes of on pointless tangents. "Pointless" is the ever returning word when speaking of du Maurier's writing. I do not recommend.

Twists & Turns at each Stop.......2004-03-27

Daphne du Maurier's "Don't Look Now" is an exceptional collection of short stories. My favorite is "A Border-Line Case." The sense of place of the small island on which Ballyfane Castle in Ireland is located is exquisitely described. Also, the plot unfolds at a boiler pace and doesn't let down until the final reversal. Shelagh starts the story with her father's odd death. Obviously closer to her dad than her mom, she seeks to uncover a bit about his past before beginning her role with the theatre company. This leads her to seek out Commander Nicolas Barry. She is taken almost forcefully in the dead of night in a boat over to the island, her belongings are fetched from the Kilmore Arms hotel, and she finds herself a guest of the unusual Commander Nicolas Barry almost against her will. Add to this the strangeness of seeing her parents' wedding picture in his living room with Barry's head superimposed over where her father's head should be. From there she tries to figure out what is going on here as this woman-less band of 12 men populate the island. Thinking they might possibly be homosexuals, she finds herself as they are digging at an excavation on the island. Finally, the novel speeds to its climax as we suddenly find ourselves square in the middle of Irish Republican Army bombings. The final reversal at the end caps off an incredible short story.

It was "Don't Look Now" that was made into the great 70s film with Donald Sutherland & Julie Christie. This is also a marvelous tale of intrigue as a couple tries to adjust to the loss of a child. Add to this the flare of Venice with its canals and travel by boat, two strange sisters with psychic ability who claim the dead child is trying to communicate, and we come up with another tremendously satisfying story.

"The Breakthrough" with its emphasis on science and trying to have a computer capture a living essence at the moment of death is rather like H.G. Wells' science fiction. "Not After Midnight" also has a tremendous sense of place as an English tutor holidays in Greece. I was a bit confused at the end as to why the story began with him resigning his post, but the story is populated with great characters. The final story "The Way of the Cross" works somewhat less well with quite a huge cast of characters to shuffle through 70 pages, which kept me trying to figure out who went with whom.

All in all, this is an excellent collection of short stories by a great writer. Enjoy!

4 stars because I did enjoy reading it even though..........2003-12-05

... I was really expecting a lot more from this book. I purchased it for the story "Don't Look Now", which is often said is a mere shadow of what I think is a great film(even though the book came first). I felt that all of the stories pulled you in to begin with, but the endings were just flat? "Not after Midnight" was pretty good but again the ending did no justice. "The Way of the Cross" was also interesting, great character development from the little boy "Robin" way too wise for his age and "Rev. Babcock" talk about conflicted! But again the ending just left you empty? Not that I wanted blood and ghastliness, but just a bit more force or painful irony,
à la "The Twilight Zone"

This is a good book to read to and from work (if you take the train or bus of course!)

a mixed bag of goodies from the great Daphne Du Maurier.......2003-11-25

Daphne Du Maurier is one of my favorite authors. Her prose is always elegant. Unfortunately her shorter novels have a tendency to clash with her style; characterizations are not well-developed, the outcome somewhat forced. This is generally true also with this collection of short novels written by Du Maurier late in her career. "Don't Look Now" and "Not After Midnight" are the better of the bunch, but none are enthralling ... certainly not when compared to her best short novel "The Birds" (yes, the story from which the film is loosely based on).

Bottom line: go for the author's novels (eg, "The Scapegoat" or "Rebecca") instead of these stories. Still, this book is overall a satisfactory read.

Classic thrillers.......2003-10-30

Du Maurier has a clear talent for writing intelligent, engaging prose in a very accessible, clear style. Her characters are real, and their conversations are completely believable. My favorite of the five tales featured here was the title story; like du Maurier's classic novel Rebecca, this is a taunt psychological thriller with a surprise ending. In the second story, "The Breakthrough," the standard search for life after death is presented in a unique light. My least-favorite story of the book was the third, "Not After Midnight," as it had a disappointing ending which I still don't fully understand. In the fourth story, "A Border-line Case," the characters are less believable than is typical for du Maurier, yet the story is still worthwhile. Finally, for the last tale, "The Way of the Cross," du Maurier takes a different tact by telling the story from the perspectives of several main characters rather than just one, and the positive result is less thriller, more human interest. du Maurier is an excellent storyteller, and most readers are likely to find something to praise in at least one of this book's well-written stories.

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A valued book for my favorite film
A Haunting Film...A Fascinating Book

Don't Look Now (BFI Modern Classics)
Mark Sanderson
Manufacturer: British Film Institute
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ASIN: 0851705723

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Don't Look Now, released in 1973, confirmed director Nicolas Roeg as one of the most stylish and innovative British directors of the postwar period. Adapted from a short story by Daphne du Maurier, it is both a complex study of how people come to terms with grief and a chilling tale of murder set among the canals and churches of Venice. Tellingly performed by Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland as the couple whose daughter has tragically died, Don't Look Now depicts the way in which the macabre and the everyday are intertwined.
In his lucid, detailed, and subtle account of the film, Mark Sanderson describes the collaboration between director and actors that sustained the emotional richness of Don't Look Now. He returns to du Maurier's original text and to the traditions of Gothic writing that underpin the film's combination of horror, melodrama, and black comedy. Sanderson examines the intricate visual style of Don't Look Now, uncovering the way in which particular motifs are used to amplify the film's depiction of two terrible deaths. He finds compensation for the film's grimly fatalistic view of life in its celebration of sexual relationships and the power of recollection.
The book includes an exclusive and in-depth interview with Roeg as well as rare and unpublished comments from Christie.

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A valued book for my favorite film.......2000-01-21

After 20 odd years of studying this film over and over (at least 25 viewings), I was glad to find Sanderson's book filled with pictures and interesting commentary, although he seems to skirt over the film's considerable suggestion of Jungian concepts about synchronicity, etc. He does make a firm case for DON'T LOOK NOW being one of the best films about grief and grieving ever made, and,moreover, uncovers its gothic text intelligently. Not highbrow in any sense, just thorough and smart, and good reading to boot! It's also great to have a list of the opening and ending sequences in this shot by shot format, since there's never been a montage anything like Roeg's jewel created since 1973.

A Haunting Film...A Fascinating Book.......1999-07-03

This is a great book for anyone who loves the film, "Don't Look Now," by Nicolas Roeg. The film itself is an extraordinary and powerful thriller and love story--anyone who has seen it can never forget its beginning and ending scenes, or its beautiful sex scene between Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland. The movie is filled with hidden secrets and little details which this book does a good job of pointing out. It also goes through, shot-by-shot, the opening and climactic scenes. A very interesting book. It also helps that the author writes on a personal, intimate level without being stuffy or confusing.

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Don't Look Now
Daphne Du Maurier
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ASIN: 0763635367
Release Date: 2007-08-14

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Don’t look now, but Lauren Child has outdone herself with a Clarice Bean novel that is the funniest and most poignant yet.

It’s the worry you hadn’t even thought to worry about that should worry you the most. At least that’s how it looks to Clarice Bean, who has been writing her worries in a notebook — things like Worry no. 1: infinity, or Worry no. 3: change. And now that her worst never-imagined worry has happened — her utterly best friend is moving away forever — Clarice doesn’t even care about her tickets to the Ruby Redfort, girl detective, movie premiere. That is, unless something happens to change things again. . . . Lauren Child’s trademark wit combines with spot-on insight in this hugely engaging story about childhood worries, unwanted changes, and finding friendships in the most surprising places.

Do You Live the Way You Drive?: Don't Look Now, But Your Spirituality Is Showing!

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Do You Live the Way You Drive?: Don't Look Now, But Your Spirituality Is Showing!
Mary Ann Fackelman
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
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ASIN: 0595444784

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Who's in Your Driver's Seat?

What's Driving You?

Have you ever caught yourself saying, "Where did that thought come from?" Or "Why did I do that?" Often the simplest, seemingly ordinary reactions come from a deeper place and impact our decisions and actions.

This book looks at common driving features (allows you to poke fun at your own or others' driving) and then invites you to notice if your driving habits are just a routine, or actually expressions of deeply held values or principles.

Delve into the six sections of each chapter: Driving; Living/Working; Reflection; Check the Engine, Source of Power; Questions; On Your Way. Enjoy the book yourself or with a book club or discussion, study or support group.

This book is about integrating the various dimensions of our lives. If I were to ask you what your spirituality is, would I get a blank stare? The truth is we all have a spirituality (an inner life) and it affects us whether we notice or not. It can show up anywhere, even in your driving! I am hopeful that paying attention to it might encourage you to be more aware and reflective so that you might drive, work and live more intentionally, more freely and more fully.

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Don't Look Now
Ethel Barrett
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DON'T LOOK NOW
Daphne du Maurier
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Don't Look Now
Daphne du Maurier
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Don't Look Now

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This volume looks at the creative work of the great avant-gardist John Cage from an exciting interdisciplinary perspective, exploring his activities as a composer, performer, thinker, and artist.

The essays in this collection grew out of a pivotal gathering during which a spectrum of participants including composers, music scholars, and visual artists, literary critics, poets, and filmmakers convened to examine Cage's extraordinary artistic legacy. Beginning with David Bernstein's introductory essay on the reception of Cage's music, the volume addresses topics ranging from Cage's reluctance to discuss his homosexuality, to his work as a performer and musician, and his forward-looking, provocative experimentation with electronic and other media. Several of the essays draw upon previously unseen sketches and other source materials. Also included are transcripts of lively panel discussions among some of Cage's former colleagues. Taken together, this collection is a much-needed contribution to the study of one of the most significant American artists of the twentieth century.

Writings Through John Cage's Music, Poetry, and Art. (Book Reviews: Composers).(Book Review): An article from: Notes

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Writings Through John Cage's Music, Poetry, and Art. (Book Reviews: Composers).(Book Review): An article from: Notes
Amy C. Beal
Manufacturer: Music Library Association, Inc.
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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1527 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Writings Through John Cage's Music, Poetry, and Art. (Book Reviews: Composers).(Book Review)
Author: Amy C. Beal
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2002
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Volume: 59 Issue: 2 Page: 337(3)

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Writings Through John Cage's Music, Poetry and Art

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Writings Through John Cage's Music, Poetry and Art
D Bernstein
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Writings through John Cage's Music, Poetry, and Art
David W. Bernstein Christopher Hatch
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