Life Sentences

Alice Blanchard

Dec 13, 2019

Life Sentences Daisy Hubbard a genetic researcher in a prestigious Boston lab is driven to find a cure for the rare genetic disease that claimed the life of her younger brother Her progress is halted however whe

Title: Life Sentences

Author: Alice Blanchard

ISBN: 9780446615761

Page: 196

Format: Paperback

Daisy Hubbard, a genetic researcher in a prestigious Boston lab, is driven to find a cure for the rare genetic disease that claimed the life of her younger brother Her progress is halted, however, when her mentally unstable sister Anna is discovered missing from her California home Daisy, fearing the worst, drops everything and flies across the country to find Anna OnceDaisy Hubbard, a genetic researcher in a prestigious Boston lab, is driven to find a cure for the rare genetic disease that claimed the life of her younger brother Her progress is halted, however, when her mentally unstable sister Anna is discovered missing from her California home Daisy, fearing the worst, drops everything and flies across the country to find Anna Once there, she is informed by the LAPD that known serial killer Roy Gaines has confessed to Anna s murder, but he will only reveal where he has hidden the body if he can lead Daisy to it himself Daisy, teaming up with a handsome detective named Jack Makowski, follows Roy to a number of dead bodies, but none of them are Anna s As Daisy realizes that Roy knows too much about her research, she begins to fear that Anna is a pawn in a game with much larger stakes It will take all of Daisy s cunning and resolve to stop the killer in his tracks and to uncover his obsession with the disease she has been trying to unravel for her entire life.

Life Sentences : Alice Blanchard

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Title: Life Sentences : Alice Blanchard
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Published :2019-09-22T06:29:34+00:00

About " Alice Blanchard "

Alice Blanchard

Alice Blanchard won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction for her book of stories, The Stuntman s Daughter She has also received a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, a New Letters Library Award, and a Centrum Artists in Residence Fellowship Alice Blanchard lives in California with her husband from the book jacket of The Breathtaker.

122 Comments

The only reason I'm able to give this book 2 stars is because I somehow managed to finish it.Imagine the cheesiest black & white crime movie with the most ridiculous similies available, add in all the overused "terrible childhood" plots (yes, all of them, together!), & then give it a nice big happy ending, & you've got this book.The beginning & end dragged forever, the middle was almost well-written and was actually interesting - just enough to make me feel like I had to reach th [...]

LIFE SENTENCES (Amateur Sleuth/Scientist-LA-Cont) – PoorBlanchard, Alice – 2nd bookWarner Books, 2006- PaperbackDaisy Hubbard is a research scientist trying to find a cure for the disease the killed her brother. Her sister, Anna, a schizophrenic, has disappeared and Daisy flies to Los Angeles to look for her. Working with LAPD detective Jack Makowski, they take on a suspected serial killer who had a relationship with the missing Anna.*** This so didn’t work for me. It ended up being more a [...]

After a slow beginning, which was then interrupted by me reading My Sister's Keeper, I really enjoyed this.Until the end. I really didn't get it. It was almost like she got to a certain point and had to end it now, and so it just got finished off. I found it odd. There was what seemed like it should have been a key thing, that I totally did not get. I'm not silly, I'm sure, and yet, I didn't understand what it was meant to be about.I would probably read more by Alice Blanchard though, because de [...]

Well, I finished it. And it was ODD. It has some well-written parts at the beginning but just 3/4 of the way through it has dissolved into a pile of hot mess with no plausible way out. Sadly it continued in this vein til the last page

This book is a little strange and not my usual kind of read but it was interesting and kept me reading.

This is the second Alice Blanchard book that I have read. I enjoyed the story. I felt that there was good character development wrapped around a story with suspense and action.

Daisy Hubbard, eine junge, erfolgreiche Wissenschaftlerin, arbeitet an einem Projekt gegen eine tödliche Genkrankheit, an der auch ihr Bruder gestorben ist. Kurz vor einem grossen Entwicklungsschritt im Projekt verschwindet ihre Schwester, die psychisch nicht ganz gesund ist. Daisy muss ihre Forschungen zurückstellen und macht sich auf die Suche nach ihrer SchwesterEin gelungener Krimi bei dem man nebenbei viel über Genkrankheiten und Forschung erfährt. Und die letzten 100 Seiten sind ultra- [...]

#NCOwn in hardback.FS: "Daisy Hubbard headed down the hallway past the equipment room with its centrifuges and spectrophotometers and listened to the light, fast click of her own heels."LS: "Daisy inhaled the perfume of their bodies and pulled her family close while frozen threads of ice formed on the glass."

It's a pleasant (but a little cheesy) read. I found it a easy read. It's one of those books you enjoy reading but won't recommend to friends because it's not memorable at all. Also, I found myself predicting the plot.