Download Now These Violent Delights Written By Sharon Linnéa Accessible As Hardbound

is the first work of a friend of a friendon whose recommendation I read it, I was thoroughly entertained by the story line, and the cast of characters, I look forward to her next! This is a tale of one woman, . in two very different eras of her life, . and two very different women, The main character, Anastasia as a young woman goes after what she wants, . rather timid. . unsure. . but, with total knowledge that if she works at it, . she can have whatever she wants! As she's a young movie starlet, . and has been cast in the lead role, . she is always surprised when others recognize her talent, . when they show her love, . because her mother is a fall down drunk that Anastasia has had to support since she was a small child, Even giving up her education, . to make sure that her mother has a roof over her head, . and food in the fridge,

Fast forward to current day, . due to events that occurred in her youth, . Anastasia has developed a rather cryptic view upon life and those that surround her, She is a widow of a very wealthy man, . She did not have children with this man, . nor is the story of how she came to be married to him explored, . but, she is the "Lady StepMum" of a large estate that now belongs to her stepson who has assumed his father's title,

The story line weaves back and forth between a young woman and a much older and neurotic woman, . jaded by life's offerings. She does NOT want to be a part of a painful anniversary of a movie she made as a young woman, But, as she is the star, . many from the movie contact her, . and beg her to be a part of the new rerelease,

It does not take them long to discover that many of the past crew and actors from the movie have died rather mysterious deaths, Leading the small group of friends to piece together the mystery and more importantly to discover WHO is the killer,

It took me about fifty pages to figure out that one is going back and forth in time, From a youthful Anastasia to a much older woman, Once I had that down, . the story flowed quickly for me! It really was an easy read,

I found "These Violent Delights" to be a superb who done it mystery/ Thriller, With the poisoning of make up artist Jane Whittle, an upcomingth anniversary celebration for Hollywood's mega hit "Tristan amp Isolde" may be in jeopardy, A huge reunion celebration for the cast and crew of the film is being planned, Our protagonist Anastasia "Stacy" Huntington, who was one of the of the film is coordinating the reunion, Stacy soon discovers that over the previousyears the cast and crew suffered many unexplainable deaths As was Jane's, The novel is woven indifferent directions, With one direction we are shown an unknown soon to be star Anastasia who must try to find her way through the rough and tumble world of Hollywood blockbusters, Even if the film is being shot in England The other direction we see how Anastasia along with the late director's daughter, Leah must plan the celebration/ event while trying to find out who is killing off the cast and crew.
With an ensemble of just fantastic characters to pick from, Could it be leading man Peter Dalton, who was jilted in romance by Stacy, and then her marriage to a shocking new beau Could it be any of the actors on the film such as Nicola Neve, Bruce Amerman, or Bruce's wife Elise.
Author Sharon Linnea has given us a fantastic array of characters all of whom are developed with significant depth, Along with superb dialog and, an excellent job of weaving the two era's into one great story line, I really enjoyed "These Violent Delights" with having such a tough time to put down, Yesout of. Please do yourself a huge favor and pick up Sharon's Linnea's "These Violent Delights" An outstanding who done it mystery/ thriller, I'd highly recommend to pick this one up and be ready for a wonderful time along with Duchess Anastasia "Stacy" Huntington, amp friends. Just terrible. These Violent Delights was fantastic! It's absolutely one of my favorite books, As an actor, I expected to like it for the sake of its movie setting, the characters all being actors or connected through their involvement in a fictionalized film version of the old Tristan and Isolde story.
What surprised me was the protagonist, Anastasia, and how completely wrong I was every time I thought I had the mystery figured out,
Anastasia wrestles with agoraphobia, a disorder which affects a few people I know personally, I really appreciated the writer's care and attention to how much strength Anastasia shows in her pursuit to solve the murders of her former cast mates, despite the constant hurdle she faces with anxiety.
She's a character who comes from a situation which presents a ton of obstacles, yet she perseveres in a brilliant display of natural, nontraditional, modern heroism, Mark her down as a feminist character for the ages,
The trouble with this book and it's a good kind of trouble is that I couldn't put it down while simultaneously wishing it would never end, I think it's a very clever part of Linnéa's writing, that like Anastasia you almost feel like you can't see this through to the end, yet you can't stop running and so you must turn the page.
I think it's the mark of a good writer and the mark of any really good book, it's a blessing when you encounter that problem,
The writing is very real, absorbing, sexy and cerebral, It's romantic, but a cut above other romance novels in the way that it sticks to the adventure which is in itself, romantic and the actual storyline, The characters, even the more overthetop onesesp, Anastasia's mother all have a way of hitting the heart of human nature that is completely spoton, The stakes are high enough to make you hold your breath and Linnéa keeps you guessing until the very end, TVD is a book I highly recommend to anyone interested in movies, actors and celebrities, murdermysteries, and that smart touch of romance, Can't wait for the next book in the series! Sharon Linnea certainly knows how to grab you into a story, Her characters were captivating, the story very believable and she had me guessing through to the end, The story was interwoven with the past history of the characters making this a great mystery, As the first in a series, I am excitedly awaiting the next, Anastasia had me panicking with her at times, A nail biter until the end, the character I chose as the killer was NOT the correct choice and I was totally blindsided, Great attention to detail in the story, background and characters, great book! Mystery, murder, romance, movie history and a twist at the end!!! This was just ok for me, I didn't feel any real connection to the characters, I was interested in solving the mystery, but I didn't really know enough to put any pieces together myself, I was really expecting not to like this, Throughout the book, I kept telling myself that I was going to be disappointed with the ending, That it was going to be clearly be insert various character's names, But then it wasn't and I was thrilled! And because I did not get disappointed, I feel like that it was that much more of a great story, Definitely a good "whodunit" read,

My only complaint is that I really did not like Anastasia, I know that in some novels, the author does not want you to sympathize with the main character, but I think that here she did, But I just couldn't. I found it hard to believe that every man she ever came across fell in love with her in seconds and stayed in love for decades, I didn't think that her and Pierce's relationship was believable, nor did I feel bad for her with how things ended with Peter, She betrayed him and got what she deserved when he shunned her, And then obviously I was annoyed that he accepted her back into his life,


Though my complaints about Anastasia are somewhat longwinded and I could probably go on about her much more, the bottom line is that I really enjoyed the novel.
In the end, it didn't matter how much I liked her or not, I liked the story enough, First time reading Sharon Linnea and have to say, really nice writing, The plot and characters flowed so nicely and made you want to keep reading on, Recommend highly. I really like this book and once I got into it, I really got hooked, My biggest complaint however, is there are SO many characters, This makes is initially so confusing and hard to follow, Note the author . put a list of characters along with their the part in T amp I, This would make the book so much easier to follow until you learn the characters!! Otherwise, great book, very entertaining!! Because I've spent part of my professional life writing about movies, I have a fascination for novels that have the cinema or moviemaking as a backdrop.
When I spotted These Violent Delights for sale a few months ago I therefore snapped it up: a murder mystery set in and around the making of a classic movie, what larks!

Twenty years ago young Anastasia Day was plucked out of nowhere to star as Isolde in hotshot director Pierce Hall's screen adaptation of the Tristan and Isolde legend.
Since then she's known love and tragedy, and has

become an agoraphobe subject to panic attacks, When plans are announced for a twentiethanniversary rerelease of the movie and everyone seems to want to rope recently widowed Anastasia into them, she begins to realize that far too many of the cast and crew seem to have shuffled off this mortal coil under curious circumstances.
Could someone be conducting a vendetta against the participants in the movie

Well, of course they could,

With a small group of surviving friends from the original production whom she trusts or can she Anastasia sets about trying to bring the hypothetical serial killer out into the open, agreeing to use herself as bait.
Is this an altogether sensible idea

Perhaps not, . .

The novel's intriguingly structured, with some passages being set in the present, some twenty years ago around the time of filming, and some being extracts from press puff pieces or the Making of book that was published as a tiein to the original release.
Linnea controls these disparate strands very well: I was never in any confusion as which timeline I was in,

The moviemaking background seemed to my untutored eye to be pretty authentic, and a cover quote from Wesley Strick screenwriter on things like TRUE BELIEVER, CAPE FEARand FINAL ANALYSISand director of The TIE THAT BINDSwould seem to affirm this impression.


That's the good news, Also good news is that These Violent Nights is something of an addictive read, Helped by an insomniac night, I raced through this longish novel in what seemed like next to no time, and found I was sneaking a few pages here and there when I was supposed to be doing other things.
That's a symptom of effective pulp literature, of course, and it struck me after a while that this was in essence what I was reading: pulp literature for thest century.
I could point you at countless examples of clunky writing and rotten or cardboard characterization even spelling errors, like "broach" for "brooch" and "Tinkerbelle" for "Tinker Bell", but the fact remains that, scoff as I might about all the These Violent Delights's narrative infelicities and plotting follies, I was held in its grasp.


That said, the text desperately needed some editorial tidying, the denouement was outright risible, and I really, really could have done without the spanking scenes! I was also a little troubled by the age gap between Anastasia and one of her lovers, although the relationship was perfectly legal.
Come to think of it, I've occasionally found myself confronting qualms similar to all of these when reading originalera pulp pieces, so I guess it's part and parcel of the literary style.
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