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    Killing Me Softly (Previously Published as Live and Let Die)
    Killing Me Softly (Previously Published as Live and Let Die)
    Killing Me Softly (Previously Published as Live and Let Die)
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    Killing Me Softly (Previously Published as Live and Let Die)

    By Bianca Sloane

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    "Best book I've read in a LONG time!" - Adam Croft, bestselling author of "Her Last Tomorrow."

    A shocking murder. A web of deceit. A twist even Hitchcock wouldn't see coming.

    It starts with a phone call – Sondra Ellis’ beautiful baby sister, Tracy, has disappeared during a jog along Chicago’s snowy lakefront. She’s even more devastated when Tracy’s mangled body is found days later, the victim of a mugging gone wrong.

    A year later, Sondra continues to struggle with Tracy’s death. Her trauma deepens when she discovers a series of odd and unsettling cracks in her sister’s seemingly perfect life: puzzling messages, inexplicable meetings, and secrets and lies at every turn.

    As Sondra continues to dig into the mystery of what happened to her sister, she has no idea she’s on her own collision course with life and death.

    For fans of Patricia Highsmith, Mary Higgins Clark, and Alfred Hitchcock, Killing Me Softly is a page-turning psychological thriller that will keep you up long past your bedtime.

    Download Killing Me Softly today!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBianca Sloane
    Release dateFeb 6, 2013
    ISBN9781301050918
    Killing Me Softly (Previously Published as Live and Let Die)
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    Bianca Sloane

    Bianca Sloane is the author of the suspense novels, KILLING ME SOFTLY (previously published as LIVE AND LET DIE) chosen as Thriller of the Month (May 2013) by e-thriller.com and a 2013 Top Read by OOSA Online Book Club, SWEET LITTLE LIES and EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE. When she’s not writing, she's watching Bravo TV, Investigation Discovery, reading or cooking. Sloane resides in Chicago.

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    • 5/5
      Live and Let Die by Bianca Sloane is a psychological thriller wrapped around a murder mystery. The novel opens with a mysterious woman named Paula needing hospitalization in a mental institution. Then we meet Sondra Ellis. Sondra wants nothing but happiness for her younger sister, Tracy, as she marries Phillip, but that happiness is short lived. Tracy is found brutally murdered, which has left Sondra, their parents, and Phillip to try to recover and pull their lives back together.

      After a year has passed, Phillip sends a letter to Tracy's mother saying that he has remarried, which re-opens the family's grief. Sondra always though Phillip was weird, but if Tracy loved him then she must have saw something in him that the family missed. However, Sondra runs into an old boyfriend of Tracy's and discovers that Tracy may not have been as happily married as everyone thought, which leads her to look more closely at Phillip and her sister's marriage. Meanwhile Phillip is happily married to Paula, who is slavishly devoted to precisely following his every order.

      For a debut novel, Live and Let Die flows very smoothly - or perhaps I should say "gallops" because I was reading at a frantic pace to discover what happens next. It certainly is a well written mystery that kept me engaged throughout and doesn't quite follow a predictable formula. Oh, I thought I had things figured out, and my conclusions seemed to be close, but were soon proved incorrect. Plus, there is an extra twist at the very end that I was not expecting at all. The unpredictability of the ending is another sign of a debut writer who deserves success and I expect to hear a lot more about her in the future.

      I liked the characters, especially Sondra's determination and attitude. Phillip and Paula were disturbing, but I don't want to say much more about that. I will have to admit that in the beginning of the novel if Sondra ran her fingers through her dark, tangled hair and then frantically needed a cigarette one more time I was considering setting the book aside.Then, as the action picked up and things started to get very intriguing, those actions seemed to stop, or at least they no longer bothered me.

      Currently Live and Let Die is available as an eBook. Bianca Sloane has two other novels coming out: Sweet Little Lies and Every Breath You Take. (Check out her website.)

      Very Highly Recommended

      Disclosure: I received a copy of this book from the author for review purposes.
    • 2/5
      Poor writing
      “They knew a ton of people”
      Seriously?!!!
      Who writes like that?
    • 5/5
      Confusing at the beginning but comes together very nice at the end. Not my usual style but not too bad!
    • 3/5
      Ok but a bit confusing at times ,but I di enjoy it.Would have given it 3.5 if I could
    • 5/5
      10/10.
      In the beginning a woman named Paula is rushed to a psychiatric hospital, then we are introduced to Tracy and Sonny. Tracy is Sonny’s sister, and we see their wedding (Tracy and Phillip’s) they are happy. Then a while later whilst Sonny is out of country, Tracy is missing. Phillip IDs a body, and 3 years later Sonny is suspicious. She starts investigating.
      ||SPOILERS||

      Sonny learns that Tracy was filing for divorce. She believes it’s infidelity because Phillip remarried a year after Tracy’s “death” to a woman named Paula. Some chapters start to show Paula’s POV, a woman who worships Phillip her husband. Paula is afraid of the things he does, doing everything to avoid the belt, or being locked in a closet. Paula does everything on time, dreading when it’s bad even if she’s sick, she gets vitamins every morning. Paula thinks she has fertility issues, one day Paula ran out of the fake sugar Phillip uses in his coffee, and rushes in a panic to her neighbor, asking if she has it. Thankfully she did, and Paula didn’t get belted. The neighbors believe she is being beaten, however the police cannot do anything. Eventually Sonny puts the pieces together and discovers that Tracy’s body was actually a woman named Carol(Carrol?) after walking her dog, and she contacts Carols family, who ID that as Carol. Then Sonny checks the address Phillip gave her, and calls there. She heads to where a bounty hunter pointed her, and finds that the woman Phillip said was his wife was actually one of his coworkers, so she goes to his home and sees Tracy, who believes she is Paula.

      Eventually Paula learns she is Tracy.

      And that Carols husband conspired with Phillip.
      ||SPOILERS GONE||

      Over all a very good book, I read it in a day.
    • 1/5
      Really Scrbd? This is a featured book? I didn’t get past the second page, which is so badly written that it doesn’t make sense. That’s when I realized it was a self-pub with no copy editing. No thanks.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      I made it as far as page 25. It was so badly written that in spite of being desperate for something to read, I could go no further.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      On a cold Chicago January night Tracy Ellis went for a jog and her body was found several days later. But her sister Sondra can't find closure and seeks out what happened.
    • 5/5
      Goodness what a ride this book brings you on! The whole book you are wondering what happened to Tracy. Every page is full of suspense, and thrills! I read over 80% of this book in one day and loved it.I enjoyed the details the author threw in, adding to the characters, which came off with realism. I will definitely be recommending this book!Each chapter was told in another light of a character, giving the book and story it’s mold, and shape. The plot was rounded enough that I was on my toes, or fingertips, either way. Do not stop this read, even if you think that you might have it figured out, there is always a turn, and your guessing could be wrong.
    • 5/5
      Since I am not a spoiler, I will only say that Bianca Sloane is a remarkable talent in the suspense thriller genre. Killing Me Softly was the first Sloane novel that I read, as it had been an Amazon Kindle suggestion. But no sooner than I finished this exceptional on-the-edge-of-your-seat page-turner, I immediately started on Sweet Little Lies and became hooked on the writing of Bianca Sloane. I just finished Every Breath You Take yesterday, and am eagerly awaiting her next release. Phenomenal suspense. Expertly written.


      (Original Kindle review.)

      1 person found this helpful

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