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  • The Dollmaker

  • This book has a wonderfully imaginative premise and well crafted characters. Not as strong on either suspense or chills as I would have expected from reading the cover blurbs, but a story worth reading nonetheless.

    

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• ― Readingrat said on May 11, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  • Amanda Stevens led a group discussion about her book, THE DOLLMAKER, for the Suspense & Thrillers group at Shelfari.com and what a book it was. The story is centered in New Orleans, one of my most favorite cities in the world. Her love for the Big Easy shines through in her book.

    For me, it w ... Continue

    Amanda Stevens led a group discussion about her book, THE DOLLMAKER, for the Suspense & Thrillers group at Shelfari.com and what a book it was. The story is centered in New Orleans, one of my most favorite cities in the world. Her love for the Big Easy shines through in her book.

    For me, it was hard to put this book down and I couldn’t read it fast enough. Some members felt the book ended too abruptly. I can see it. I thought the whole thing was perfect. Hands down, this book gets a five star rating.

    For more about my reviews, go to http://j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com/

    

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• ― judithkaye said on May 2, 2008 | Add your feedback

And now a new clue has surfaced...a doll that is the spitting image of Claire Doucett's missing child, right down to the tiny birthmark on the girl's left arm. A chance sighting of the eerily lifelike doll in a French Quarter collectibles shop leaves Claire shaken to her core...and more determined than ever to find out what happened to her beloved Ruby.

When the doll is snatched and the store's owner turns up dead, Claire knows the only person she can turn to is ex-husband Dave Creasy, a former cop who has spent the past seven years imprisoned by his own guilt and despair. He let Claire down once when she needed him the most. Can she make him believe the doll really exists? She'll have to if they're to survive an encounter with a brutal psychopath— the dollmaker—who stole their future to feed an obsession that will never die.

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