Simon Wood
Author of The One That Got Away
About the Author
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Series
Works by Simon Wood
Will Marry for Food, Sex, and Laundry: How to Get Him - and How to Keep Him (2009) 6 copies, 3 reviews
Making Ends Meet 2 copies
American Horror 2 copies
The Sunseeker 2 copies
The 99% 1 copy
Warning signs 1 copy
Parental Guidance 1 copy
Bus People 1 copy
The Cyclist 1 copy
A Measure of Time 1 copy
Road Rash 1 copy
Associated Works
Piercing the Darkness Anthology: A Charity Anthology for the Children’s Literacy Initiative (2014) — Contributor — 7 copies
Thriller Thirteen: 13 Bestselling Thriller Novellas Packed With Mystery, Action, & Adventure! (2016) — Contributor — 3 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Wood, Simon
- Other names
- Oaks, Simon
Janus, Simon - Birthdate
- 1968-04-14
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Taplow, England, UK
- Places of residence
- California, USA
Members
Reviews
Paying The Piper (Fleetwood and Sheils Book 1) by Simon Wood
I registered a book at BookCrossing.com!
http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/13410063
I bought this as an escape while driving a long distance. It fulfilled my need.
That doesn't mean I loved it or even particularly liked it. Just that it was good enough to keep listening and that I didn't swear at it too often.
This is a "thriller" or maybe "suspense". We know who the main characters are early on, including the identity of the killer. We know that eventually the killer and protagonist will meet up and there will be a dramatic ending. It may be that our knowing this is good. We don't want too much to be unknown.
Zoe and Holli, good friends, let off some steam in Vegas. On the drive home they are abducted and Zoe finds herself watching in horror as her friend is beaten, hung from the ceiling of a remote shack. She escapes, knowing she does not have the ability to save her friend. Over a year later she is still haunted by what she can remember, which is unfortunately not very much. She had been drugged and there are large holes in her memory.
During that 15 months Zoe, driven by guilt, vowed that nothing like this would ever happen again. She advanced quickly in self-defense classes. She took a job as security guard in a mall and was gratified by quick results. But then she sees a news item on television. Another woman has been beaten in the same way as Holli had, and was left dead right there in San Francisco. Wherever the abductor had been before, he was now in her town.
Drawing on her anger rather than her common sense, Zoe plunges into the case. She makes rash decisions and attacks people with little provocation. I found her actions irritating. I understand that a person who escaped from a horrifying abduction might well feel a lot of anger, but does she have to leave all sense behind?
The story proceeds pretty much as you might expect, which has to be satisfying to thriller-seekers. I didn't love the narrator, with her wavery voice and tendency to make one-syllable words into two. But she was competent and probably appropriate for the material.… (more)
http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/13410063
I bought this as an escape while driving a long distance. It fulfilled my need.
That doesn't mean I loved it or even particularly liked it. Just that it was good enough to keep listening and that I didn't swear at it too often.
This is a "thriller" or maybe "suspense". We know who the main characters are early on, including the identity of the killer. We know that eventually the killer and protagonist will meet up and there will be a dramatic ending. It may be that our knowing this is good. We don't want too much to be unknown.
Zoe and Holli, good friends, let off some steam in Vegas. On the drive home they are abducted and Zoe finds herself watching in horror as her friend is beaten, hung from the ceiling of a remote shack. She escapes, knowing she does not have the ability to save her friend. Over a year later she is still haunted by what she can remember, which is unfortunately not very much. She had been drugged and there are large holes in her memory.
During that 15 months Zoe, driven by guilt, vowed that nothing like this would ever happen again. She advanced quickly in self-defense classes. She took a job as security guard in a mall and was gratified by quick results. But then she sees a news item on television. Another woman has been beaten in the same way as Holli had, and was left dead right there in San Francisco. Wherever the abductor had been before, he was now in her town.
Drawing on her anger rather than her common sense, Zoe plunges into the case. She makes rash decisions and attacks people with little provocation. I found her actions irritating. I understand that a person who escaped from a horrifying abduction might well feel a lot of anger, but does she have to leave all sense behind?
The story proceeds pretty much as you might expect, which has to be satisfying to thriller-seekers. I didn't love the narrator, with her wavery voice and tendency to make one-syllable words into two. But she was competent and probably appropriate for the material.… (more)
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