ISBN: 0-88739-233-4
272 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 4/2000
Paperback Original
Price: $13.95
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Gift Giver
Jean Sapin
Ellen Cates, a recent widow in her early thirties, is befriended by Stavros Theodorou, a man nearly twice her age. Part father figure, part friend, he eases her loneliness, shares her problems, and gradually takes over her life. When Ellen falls in love with a man her own age, Stavros's affection turns to hated. Tortured by jealousy, Stavros is determined to destroy the romance and get his revenge. Ellen is trapped in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Review: "Jean Sapin's thriller, Gift Giver, is heavy with foreshadowing and unlikely plot twists, but creates some suspense as the psychotic spurned lover grows increasingly creepy."
-Publishers Weekly
"The novel is so well-written, the terror within its pages so real, that it made me want to avoid restaurants for a while-at least, the ones with a courtly old gentleman behind the cash registrar. ...I thoroughly enjoyed Gift Giver."
-Stephanie Kegan, author of The Baby, psychological terror
"Jean Sapin is a wonderful writer....Reading Gift Giver gave me shivers, particularly since the characters seemed so real....Gift Giver builds and builds, to a nerve-racking finale. It is suspense at its spine-tingling best."
-Linda O. Johnston, author of Stranger on the Mountain, Point in Time, and Once a Cavalier
"Ellen Cates sets off down a path leading, the reader suspects, to a sunny May-December romance. But suddenly the landscape changes and dark clouds and throat-clutching danger loom around every corner. Gift Giver is a hot new page turner!"
-Carloyn Coker, author of The Other David and Appearance of Evil
Bio: JEAN SAPIN, a writer and painter, lives in Los Angeles, in the Santa Monica mountains. Gift Giver is her first book with Creative Arts.
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