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After Caroline
After Caroline
Author: Kay Hooper
ISBN-13: 9780553571844
ISBN-10: 0553571842
Publication Date: 9/2/1997
Pages: 368
Rating:
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 145 ratings
Publisher: Bantam
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Helpful Score: 2
Excellent book, never knew who did it until last few pages. Great read!
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VERY good book!!
robinmy avatar reviewed After Caroline on + 2047 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Good romantic suspense story.
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Helpful Score: 1
Great Book. Lots of excitement. Fun to read.
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Helpful Score: 1
This was a great read! Hooper added great details and depth to the characters. Great mystery and intrigue to keep your interest!
doxielover avatar reviewed After Caroline on + 91 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Great book! I enjoyed this gothic type style. Was Caroline's death and accident? Or was she the target of a killer willing to kill again?
MELNELYNN avatar reviewed After Caroline on + 669 more book reviews
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Kay Hooper has done it again. After Caroline is a story about a woman (Joanne) that dies at the exact same time as Carolina both in car accidents but on different sides of the United States. Only difference is Joanne is brought back to life and survives. After the car accident she starts to experience a dream that repeats itself every night. Haunted by the images in her dream Joanne starts to investigate her dream and follows the clues to a small oceanside town in Oregon. Here she meets people that knew Caroline and the picture that is drawn for her about this woman is distressing. She is not a likeable person and she has left behind her husband and a daughter.
Joanne starts to ask questions and this sleepy town wants to keep it's secerts. People start to die and it looks like Caroline's accident was no accident.

Plenty of page turning suspense and many twists and turns will leave you wanting to only put the book down after the story is finished. Well worth the time it takes to read.
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Great book! Fast read. Will keep you guessing until the end.
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Good book
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good mystery romance
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Two women die at the same time 3000 miles apart. One is revived and starts having dreams about the other. She finds out they also looked alike so heads for the small town where the other died to find out about her. Very good story
Luv2PlaGmz avatar reviewed After Caroline on + 3 more book reviews
Good mystery, kept my attention and the "bad guy" wasn't one of *my* suspects. I will have to look for more of Kay Hooper's books.
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Suspense about two women who look identically alike. However, is there a killer after them?
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great read, really enjoyed the story!
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2 women who look enough alike to be twins. Both involveed in car wrecks at the same time. One survives. One doesn't. Now, plagued by a bewildering connection to woman she didn't know,Johanna travels 3000 miles across country to the pictureque town where Caroline lived- and mysteriouly died. There Johanna will run into a solid wall od suspiction as she searches for the truth: was Caroline's death an accident? Or was she the target of a killer willing to kill again?
Cycle304 avatar reviewed After Caroline on + 135 more book reviews
What an eerie book! But the strange thing is it could actually happen, I believe. Two motor vehicle accidents in two different parts of the country. Two women die, but one is brought back with CPR,etc. Now she starts having strange dreams and is mistaken for someone else a couple of times. The dreams are so real that she travels across the country to find an explanation for the dreams and there she becomes 'after Caroline'. Very good book, keeps you on your toes!
artgirltoo avatar reviewed After Caroline on + 26 more book reviews
I read this book twice. I like mystery and romance.
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Two women who look enough alike to be twins. Both involved in car wrecks at the same time. One survives, one doesn't.
Princesslooneytoons avatar reviewed After Caroline on
Great Suspensefull Romance.
Nursebrandy avatar reviewed After Caroline on + 16 more book reviews
Awesome book. Very hard to put down.
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Two women who look enough alike to be twins. Both involved in car wrecks at the same time. One survives. One doesn't.

Now, pagued by a bewildering connection to a woman she never knew, driven by an urgent compulsion she doesn't understand, Joanna Flynn travels three thousand miles across the country to the picturesque town where Caroline McKenna lived-and mysteriously died. There Joanna will run into a solid wall of suspicion as she searches for the truth: Was Caroline's death an accident? Or was she the target of a killer willing to kill again?
andi89 avatar reviewed After Caroline on + 98 more book reviews
Good book. A little slow in the beginning but kept you guessing until the end.
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A good read
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Two women who look enough alike to be twins. Both involved in car wrecks at the same time. One survives, one doesn't. Now, plagued by abewildering connection to a women she never knew, driven by urgent compulsions she doesn't understand, Joanna Flynn travels three thousand miles across the country to the oceanside town where Caroline McKenna lived- and mysteriously died. There Joanna will run into a solid wall of suspicion as she searches for the truth: Was Caroline's death an accident? Or was she the target of a killer willing to kill again?
Rin avatar reviewed After Caroline on + 159 more book reviews
Kay Hooper rocks!
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A GOOD MYSTERY. KEEPS YOU GUESSING ABOUT WHO DID IT ALMOST UP TO THE END.
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This is one of the 1st books of Hooper's that i read,I loved it.
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Kay Hooper's books just keep getting better and better. Excellent mystery/thriller.
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Some of the super-natural, as usual in Kay Hooper novels, but believable story line, good characters.
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Enjoyed very much
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From cover: 2 women who look enough alike to be twins are both involved (separately) in car accidents at the same time. One survives; one doesn't. Is there some kind of link between these 2 women?
Well written mystery with a flavor of esp.
maggieminnich avatar reviewed After Caroline on + 400 more book reviews
Joanna and Caroline, living states apart, didn't know each other, no relation, have never even heard of one another, yet they look close enough alike to be mistaken for identical twins. After two people mistake Joanna for being Caroline, she decides to investigate who this Caroline-person really is. She finds out that both had car accidents on the exact same day at the exact same time, both die, but only Joanna is revived. Since that happened, she's been having the same dream over and over again. Joanna believes that the dream is tied into Caroline so she takes a several-week vacation and flies to the small coastal town where Caroline lived, but digging into Caroline's life can be dangerous. Joanna also falls in love with the town's sheriff, has an attempt made on her life, and solves the murder crimes occurring in the town.

Some parts of the story was interesting, others boring, and still more left me frustrated. The author tightropes on the line of paranormal and after making such a big deal about the look-alike women, we find there is no familial connection. There's also a couple "love" scenes that I found to be uncalled for, since this is supposed to be a murder mystery.

If you're a diehard murder mystery/police procedural lover like me, I'd bypass this book.
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Two women who look alike enough to be twins, both involved in car wrecks at the same time. One survives..one doesn't. Now, plagued by a bewildering connection to a woman she never knew, driven by an urgent compulsion she doesn't understand, Joanna Flynn travels three thousand miles across the country to the picturesque town where Caroline McKenna lived..and mysteriously died. There Joanna will run into a solid wall of suspicion as she searches for the truth: Was Caroline's death an accident? Or was she the targe of a killer willing to kill again?
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I loved this mystery-thriller - my kind of book
ErinMc avatar reviewed After Caroline on + 373 more book reviews
Now plagued by a bewildering connection to a woman she never knew,driven by an urgent compulsion she doesn't understand, Joanna Flynn travels three thousand miles across the country to the picturesque town where Caroline McKenns lived- and mysteriously died. There Joanna will run into a solid wall of suspicion as she searches for the truth: Was Caroline's death and accident ? Or was she the target of a killer willing to kill again.