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One False Move
One False Move
One False Move
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One False Move

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"A killer read." —The Lincoln Star Journal 

One fatal mistake, and there's no turning back. 

Melanie Starks and her seventeen-year-old son, Charlie, have been running one con job or another for as long as she can remember. Worried that Charlie is starting to enjoy it, Melanie is ready to start over. Then her brother, Jared, reappears in her life. 

Released on a technicality, Jared Barnett is just out of prison and feeling invincible. He has the perfect plan to rob a local bank, but he needs Melanie and Charlie's help. Feeling she owes her brother, Melanie agrees. 

Within seconds, shots are fired. Jared and Charlie race out of the bank with no money, leaving four people dead. When they refuse to tell Melanie what happened in those few desperate moments, she realizes her brother and her son have formed a silent bond. 

Now they're on the run, and there's nothing to lose. 

"Kava delivers a fast, dark, nail-biter with  
an extra special shocker saved for last." —Portsmouth Herald

LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 17, 2017
ISBN9780997389739
Author

Alex Kava

ALEX KAVA GREW UP IN THE COUNTRY outside Silver Creek, Nebraska. She earned a bachelor's degree in art and English from College of Saint Mary in Omaha, Nebraska.  She has done a variety of jobs, from working as a hospital tech, cleaning and sterilizing utensils from surgery, pathology and the morgue, to running her own graphic design firm, designing national food labels and directing television and radio commercials. IN 1996 SHE QUIT HER JOB as a public relations director to dedicate herself to writing a novel and getting published. To pay the bills, she refinanced her home, maxed out her credit cards and even took on a newspaper delivery route. TODAY, ALEX IS A NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR of psychological suspense novels.  Her Maggie O'Dell series, comprised of A Perfect Evil, Split Second, The Soul Catcher, At the Stroke of Madness, A Necessary Evil, Exposed and Black Friday along with her stand-alone novels, One False Move and Whitewash, have been widely praised by critics and fans. They have appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. Her books have been published in twenty-four countries and have hit the bestseller lists in Australia, Germany, Poland, Italy and the UK.  She is also one of the featured writers in the anthology Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night, edited by James Patterson. ONE FALSE MOVE WAS SELECTED AS Nebraska's 2006 One Book One Nebraska.  (My Antonia by Willa Cather was the 2005 selection).  In 2007 Alex was awarded the Mari Sandoz Award by the Nebraska Library Association. Whitewash made January Magazine's list of best thrillers for 2007. Exposed,Black Friday and 2011's DAMAGED received starred reviews by Publishers Weekly.   2010 marked Alex's ten year anniversary as an author with the publication of her tenth novel, Damaged (Doubleday, July 13th). HOTWIRE, her ninth Maggie O'Dell will be released July 12th, 2011. She also has co-authored two short stories in anthologies to be published in June and August: First Thrills, edited by Lee Child (After Dark, co-authored with Deb Carlin) and Florida Heat Wave, edited by Michael Lister (A Breath of Hot Air, co-authored with Patricia Bremmer is now on KINDLE. ALEX WRITES FULL-TIME AND LIVES IN Omaha, Nebraska and Pensacola, Florida (where her 2010 book, Damaged is set).  She is a member of International Thrillers Writers.    

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Quick read,fast paced thriller. Was not sure where the ending was going but liked the way the author wrapped the story up. Familiarity with the geography of the area increased my enjoyment.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Had to read it--she's from here and this was a book based largely on an event that had recently occurred. It was fun to be able to picture exactly what Kava was talking about but a couple of times, I found errors which were offputting. Kava is not the best mystery writer but this one was good enough to keep me up late to finish it.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Although I don't normally read books like this, it somehow found its way into my hands and I sat down and read it. I was blown away. The story is fast-paced and everything ties together wonderfully. After fleeing a bank robbery gone wrong, the main characters end up at a writer's house, take him hostage, and continue life on the run leaving death and destruction behind every where they go. This book is full of action and has a suprise twist ending that makes the book even more worth reading.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Although I don't normally read books like this, it somehow found its way into my hands and I sat down and read it. I was blown away. The story is fast-paced and everything ties together wonderfully. After fleeing a bank robbery gone wrong, the main characters end up at a writer's house, take him hostage, and continue life on the run leaving death and destruction behind every where they go. This book is full of action and has a suprise twist ending that makes the book even more worth reading.

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