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SEE HOW THEY RUN + Giveaway!
SEE HOW THEY RUN and the Owl in the Attic (Bethany Campbell)
For me, stories evolve in different ways. Sometimes one arrives complete, as if the Muse special-ordered it, monogrammed and gift-wrapped. Other stories start with one idea that just won’t go away. The trouble is, it won’t go anywhere else either. It may just hang around and hang around, inhabiting the head like a reclusive owl brooding in the attic rafters.
The basis for SEE HOW THEY RUN crouched in the rafters a long, long time. The idea came from a piece written by neurologist Oliver Sacks. He described adult twins diagnosed as possibly autistic and institutionalized since childhood. Although they could not grasp much of what most of us call reality, they had two unusual gifts: astonishing powers of personal recollection and a genius with numbers.
I couldn’t get the story out of my mind. What fascinated me was their twinship. Maybe nobody else could grasp the world as they saw it, but they understood each other perfectly. This paired aloneness made them seem both cursed and charmed, almost mystical creatures.
A few years later I read an unrelated book, THE UNDERGROUND EMPIRE, a chilling description of international drug trafficking and its power to insinuate its influence almost any place it wished. It described a world of incredible corruption and violence. This was scary stuff with scary people–so scary, it made the owl’s eyes open wide as saucers.
I suddenly imagined Sacks’s institutionalized twins as boys of eight. One day on the playground, they see the driveby shooting of an elderly man. With them is the heroine, their teacher, Laura Stoner, who calls the police because the boys have noticed important details that may help identify the killers.
But when the police discover the victim is a Mafioso kingpin and drug lord, they know the boys will be in danger, for they can identify the men making the first strike in a long-simmering drug war between the Mafia and a South American cartel. They order Laura and the twins put into protective custody.
The hero, assistant district attorney and former detective, Mick Montana, is one of the guards assigned to conduct her and the twins to a safe house. They’re ambushed, however, making it clear the cartel has informants inside the drug task force. Laura and Mick can no longer trust the system to protect them and the boys. They must go on the run with no backup and no plan.
The boys are difficult, enigmatic, yet as vulnerable and defenseless as children can be. The killers in pursuit are predators, ruthless, expert, and with almost unlimited resources. To get the twins to safety will take all Mick’s smarts and daring. But just as much depends on Laura’s unwavering devotion to two puzzling boys unloved by anyone else in the world.
When I finished the book, I missed working on it, but that was okay. There was another owl up in the attic by then, sulking, solitary, and waiting. Do you like suspense books? What intrigues you most about suspense stories? Comment below, 5 winners are randomly chosen to win random books every week, winners announced on Sunday – good luck!
I love a good suspense book. It is so great when you can’t wait to turn the page to find out whatis happening next. There are also so many different explanations to what is happening and as a reader you try to figure it out. Sounds like a great read!
i think all books should have a bit of suspense. it makes it more interesting for the reader.
Looks Suspenseful.
Suspense in some form is in all books. However, when you really turn up the heat as described in SEE HOW THEY RUN, it literally keeps the reader on the edge of their seat and all of it lights on. I am fascinated by the plot with the autistic twins. Autism has for so long been a huge mystery in itself, however pieces of the puzzle are starting to come together. I am eager to read how you bring the clues out of the twin boys to enable Laura and Mick to finally solve this puzzle. Thanks for a great synopsis!
Suspense novels leave you wanting to figure it out, guess at what is going to happen, and keep turning the pages. There is something that makes a person delve deep into their mind when enjoying a suspense. There is also the mingling of the analynical mind with the creative that gives pleasure of reading suspense.
I do enjoy good suspense book. It keeps me guessing and then at the end… I am usually surprised! ;o)
I love a great suspense story especially a romantic one of course. Especially when it keeps me intrigued from th get go.
I love the aspect of “romance on the run” I love how the characters find time to fall in love while on the run from a bad guy or trying to catch a bad guy.
I love suspence books. I love Mary Higgens Clark, I can never figure out who the villian is! Just when I think I’ve figured it out she throughs a wrench in my thinking! I also discovered Linda Howard and her romances suspence fiction.
I like suspense books because I like not knowing what’s going to happen next.
I love suspense, I like the emotions that run through me as I’m reading the story, most of the one’s I’ve read you feel like you are right there along with the characters experiencing it at the same time.
I love suspense books. I like the action and the race against time to save the world.
When the ending is not hat I expected at all!
I love suspense novels and the page turning to see what happens next.
I love being suprised or scared in my reading and not knowing what is coming.
I love storys that have a bit of suspense in them. keeps me guessing whats going to happen next
Suspense here I come..Like to switch up every now and then!
I love historical romances.set in the 1800s or early 1900s.my favorite is 1700s…
i do like a bit of suspense and mystery in a book, a bit of romance and other things as well. i just can’t seem to read enough these days.
thanks for the chance to win.
Julie
oh my gosh, this story sounds right up my alley….love a good mystery, and a handsome hero in the mix.
Add the twins and their special gifts…can’t wait to read…yeah!!!
As long as their is romance in it, I’ll read
I enjoyed Kim Lenox’ series that had that whole Jack the Ripper mystery twist on it. Was fun!
I love suspense and when mixed with romance it has to be a great book. I already have this book on my wish list. Looking forward to reading and for the next installment.
Thanks for the opportunity to enter giveaway.
Suspense books have always been special to me. In my opinion, suspense novels always manage to pull the reader just a little bit more into the story and submerge them totally in the character’s situation. There is nothing quite like a character running from the impeding threat of danger/death and the sort of frantic desperation it weaves around the reader. Really well written suspense grabs your attention; demands it. It makes your heart pound and makes you start to murmur; “Oh my god… oh my god… I hope they get away,” under your breath as you read. I’ve always liked all sorts of suspense, but being as I’ve also always enjoyed a good romance novel, blending the two is pretty much literary perfection… in my opinion at least.
i love all types of books.i love reading a good thriller.would love to win your book.
Yes, I like suspense stories. What intrigues me the most about them is no matter the story everytime I’ll read it it’s like I’m in the story and that scares me quite a bit.
I love when a book makes you suck in ur breath and say “NO WAAAAAY! Didn’t see that coming!!”
Sounds like a good book!
I love suspence novels, especially when I think I know where the author is headed then suddenly….POW!!! The author has thrown in a curveball and it’s nothing like I thought it would be!
Suspense??? Eeek…haha A little scare now and then adds spice to life!
I love romance books with lots of suspense. When a book just grabs you and won’t let go … Best way to spend the day. The book sounds like it is the perfect blend.
i love books about twins!
I like the development of a story and not being able to tell what will happen next.