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Young veterinarian Rachel Goddard's world starts to crumble when a client rushes into the animal sickbay with a basset hound struck by a car during a thunderstorm. The dog owner's terrified tot, sodden with rain, loses sight of her mother in the flurry of endeavor and screams, "Mommy! I want Mommy!" Instantly Rachel is hurled back in time to a day in her own childhood when her baby sister Michelle uttered the same weep while thunder crashed and rain poured down on them. The unearthed memory feels like a fragment from a nightmare, and Rachel doesn't know its meaning or the anguish it stirs up in her.
When she seeks answers she learns not whatever thing from Michelle or from Judith, their loving but manipulative mother. Judith is a psychologist who is only too pleased to have her adult daughters still living in her elegant Tudor house additional than Washington, DC. But their apparently serene home is a house of secrets where Judith's undeclared rules forbid questions about the family history or the daughters' long-dead father. As more baffling memories surface, Rachel starts to believe that not whatever thing about her family is what it seems. Fighting her mother's attempts to control her, Rachel embarks on a quest that takes her deep into her own memory as well as middle across the country. The heartbreaking truth she uncovers will shatter her world and force her to make an unthinkable choice.
The Heat of the Moon is Sandra Parshall's first novel.
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 A fantastic, credible read |
| Review Date: March 28, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Judith Dailey, Seattle, WA USA |
| The Heat of the Moon is a fantastic, quick, engaging read. Everything seems really credible which is tough to pull off in this genre. High recommended. |
A Stunning Debut
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| Review Date: April 18, 2006 |
| Reviewer: A. E Maloney, Massachusetts |
| A stunning debut from first time Author Sandra Parshall. Tightly written, breathtaking suspense filled mystery that takes you on a roller coaster ride from commencement to end. Memorable characters pull you into the tale with skeletons rattling in every closet. As the families deepest, darkest secrets start to emerge, the suspense just keeps building until it explodes off the page in this delightful psychological thriller that will keep you up late into the night until you have refined every last page. |
A Debut to Buy For
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| Review Date: June 5, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Carol Baier, |
| Notification: Twists and turns may cause breathlessness, cold sweats, dry mouth, heart palpitations and sleep disorder. Question your cardiologist if this book is for you. |
Fantastic Psychological Suspense
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| Review Date: March 6, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Canadian Reader, |
Reviewer: A customer from Canada
Rachel Goddard, a young veterinarian, finds her prearranged life starts coming apart when a child crying for her mother triggers what may be a memory of a past covered in mystery. Did a touch happen to Rachel and her younger sister Michelle when they were children? Questioning her sister and her mother yields no answers. To mother Judith, a brilliant psychologist, the past is closed, not to be questioned or discussed, while Michelle has no desire to dig into the past as that may upset her own plans. Rachel can't give up, but, and as more disturbing and frightening memories surface she's driven to find out the truth. The more she tries, but, the more resistance she finds from Judith, and Rachel realizes she and Michelle live an isolated life by design-Judith's manipulative design. Rachel finds aid with her quest and a budding romance with Luke, the owner of the clinic where she works, a romance Judith does her best to thwart. The discovery of shocking long buried secrets brings Rachel to dread that the truth will lead to catastrophe...or worse.
Sandra Parshall has crafted an engrossing novel of psychological suspense, filled with unforgettable characters, and page-turning must-find-out mystery. Perfectly-written!
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No Wonder It Won an Agatha!
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| Review Date: June 4, 2007 |
| Reviewer: K. Picket, Wallagrass, ME |
| Fantastic book - held me from commencement to end. The characters are so finely drawn that they stop to be characters and become people you know. The background is so realistic I was surprised to find I was in my home and not in McLean, VA. Seamless plotting brought me into the tale. I was sorry to end the book, the writing has a pure feature that made me want to pick it up again as soon as I refined. Not only for the pleasure of the tale, but for the pleasure of the way Parshall uses language. Looking forward to more from this author. |
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