

Dead Giveaway
Author: Joanne Fluke
Narrator: George Guidall
Unabridged: 9 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/29/2014
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths
Author: Joanne Fluke
Narrator: George Guidall
Unabridged: 9 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/29/2014
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths
American author Joanne Fluke has written several works using pen names. Her given, actual name, is Joanne Gibson Fischmann, born in 1943 in Swanvile, Minnesota. Under pen name, Joanne Fluke, she is most recognized for her mystery series, Hannah Swensen, based around a small town bakery. Five Hallmark Channel movies have been made from Fluke's Swensen series. She has written under the other pseudonyms of John Fischer, R. J. Fischer, Jo Gibson, Chris Hunter, Gina Jackson and Kathryn Kirkwood.
Fluke attended St. Cloud State University, and earned a B.A. Degree in psychology in 1973 from California State University. She had several second jobs while she worked at building her writing career, but her most important titles were mother, wife and homemaker. She lives in Southern California with her television writer husband, Ruel E. Fischmann, her children and step-children.
An avalanche traps a group of people in their luxury condo above the mountains of Las Vegas. When some of them go missing, and some wind up dead, they start to wonder if there is a killer among them. I really enjoyed this book, even though I had a hard time keeping track of the characters at times. S......more
Plot in the vein of And Then There Were None. Sudden rush of many character intros that I considered writing them down. Good, fast read and enjoyable.......more
In a way this book reminded of the game and later cheesy movie "Clue." The setting is a luxury highrise condo with many floors and rooms for the rich and famous. People keep dying or disappearing, at first believed to be accidents, later this dense crowd finally figures out something sinister might......more
The story line was a little slow for me but it was easy to follow. The setting is Las Vegas . The deer creek condo,s are delightfully secluded an ulta luxory development nestled in the mountains above Las Vegas, you get mobsters, drug smuggling, romance and murder. and its all happening in the cond......more
This story is reminiscent of a popular Agatha Christie novel. A group of people caught in a avalanche in the mountains above Las Vegas find themselves stranded in their ultra expensive condo complex. As the residents die one by one and two by two, family members separated from loved ones struggle to......more