This book will always be a memorable one for me as I read it after difficult surgery whilst recouperating. It was a great book to take my mind off things. With a great plot that builds up at a nice pace the book is easy to connect with and get absorbed into really quickly.Surviving the nightmare is only the beginning...Dana Nolan was a promising young TV reporter until she was kidnapped by a notorious serial killer. A year has passed since she survived the ordeal, but Dana is still physically, e...

This supposed thriller is in no way thrilling. Without the prologue about the serial killer and wondering whether Dana Nolan, the protagonist, would escape him, the book had zero suspense. And of course she escapes, otherwise there would be no story!So the setup is that Dana has escaped from a serial killer by killing him. She spent months in recovery and had to relearn everything. When she finally returns home, she is harassed by the media. For Dana, who used to be a reporter, the shoe is now o...

COLD COLD HEART by TAMI HOAGWhat an extraordinary book! I've been following this author for more than 10 years and her books still amaze me.Dana is young woman, working on being an investigative journalist when she is abducted by the serial killer she is writing about. This is one really really sick individual. Dana, being the ninth victim, is used as a punching bag, raped, carved up like a turkey dinner, and had knees and hands and head battered by a hammer. She is more dead than alive.When she...

I remember when Tami Hoag wrote romances. Long road from there.I loved the Oak Knoll series as well as the Kovac & Liska series. This has a touch of Kovac and Liska but not enough.This is the story of Dana's recovery, the last victim of the Doc Holliday serial killer and her attempts to solve the disappearance of her best friend in high school.Depressing, graphic, violent, way too many unpleasant characters with too many subplots that were dropped. (view spoiler)[Was her father killed by her ste...

This was so much fun that I almost burst into tears at the grocery store because of the emotions involved in the climactic final scenes. It's been years since I've read Tami Hoag so I had forgotten how much I like her work. This was a particularly interesting one because it deals with a woman with PTSD and a Traumatic Brain Injury, along with a vet who also has a TBI. Apparently Hoag was thrown from a horse and had a very delayed diagnosis of TBI. She also has a friend who was a vet and has the

In Tami Hoag's latest standalone thriller, we are introduced to the once beautiful and successful Dana Nolan. She has survived the most horrific ordeal that has claimed the life of countless victims before his serial killer escapades took center stage around the country. But, she is not that woman who killed her attacker, she is the After-Dana. Dana moves back to the small town of her youth as she struggles to come to terms with her new self. She suffers from brain damage where her short term me...

Dana Nolan's life is turned upside down when she is kidnapped and tortured by a serial killer. She does survive her ordeal, but not without a traumatic brain injury. After ten months in the hospital, she has returned to her childhood home. Dana doesn't remember her time in the killer's hands. She also doesn't remember large portions of her past. When she remembers that her best friend, Casey Grant, disappeared seven years ago right after their high school graduation, Dana delves into the mystery...

"Where there is life, there is hope"Yah....but not in this book, sorry. I honestly do not know if it was because I was coming off a Tess Gerritsen high and her books pack a wallop or it truly was the most draggy book I have ever read. This book had a great start. Then chapter after chapter, again and again it was the same shit over and over.....No new details, nothing to keep me interested. Read chapter 1-6 maybe then a bit more near the end and you will be satisfied. I really wanted it to be a

Talented Tami Hoag, delivers COLD COLD HEART, with a likable heroine with PTSD and TBI, for a roller coaster page-turner crime suspense, leaving you guessing the identity of a brutal and clever mystery killer.Dana Nolan was a beautiful, successful, and promising young TV reporter until a notorious serial killer tried to add her to his list of victims. She has recently survived a horrible tragedy; lucky to be alive, and suffering from physical, psychological, and emotional scars. Her mind still...

What happens when you're young and full of potential & everything comes crushing down in one moment? More on the point, what happens when you're an up and coming reporter and you're kidnapped by a seriel killer who tortures, rapes, and gets under your skin? What happens when you're forced to kill him in order to be saved? That happened to Dana Nolan, who's the only surving victim, and last one, of a serial killer. She killed him when he was driving and like we all know psychopaths tend to be ver...

I think there was a story in here somewhere, between the long, repetitious, dramatic passages about John's PTSD and violent hatred of his father and Dana's ongoing and kind of boring struggle to reconcile the "Before Dana" with the "After Dana" while dealing with her recovery from a TBI at the hands of a serial killer. Unfortunately, the story was not especially interesting. The serial killer and Hoag's detectives Liska and Kovac are all just red herrings, since they barely make an appearance an...

Three Stars*** SPOILER ALERT ***Tami Hoag fans, please don’t hate me. This one just didn’t work for me. The more books I read and the more authors and genres I experience, the higher my expectations have become. My expectations of this book were raised even higher by quotes of praise on the book jacket like “Cannily plotted and peppered with some of the sharpest dialogue in the business” or “Outstanding! Tami Hoag continues to set the standard for excellence in her genre” or “Gripping.” Don’t ge...

A journalist is almost killed by a serial killer and returns with PTSD to her hometown to open up old wounds unexpectedly and recover from her trauma. This is a tale about communities and how they can isolate us and inflict heartbreak.The narrator did a great job on the character voices and mannerisms. MY GRADE: B plus to A minus.

where there's life, there's hopeDana Nolan spent ten months in rehabilitation at the Weidman Recovery Centre; when she was found, she had been extremely close to death at the hands of the notorious serial killer Doc Holiday. A TV reporter, Dana had been abducted on her way to work with the killer wanting to add her to his already long list of victims – Dana’s terrible injuries included a traumatic brain injury. Her physical injuries had healed in time, but her psychological and emotional trauma

Really enjoy Tami Hoag's style of writing.Though I figured this one out, I still felt the characters and their development was top notch. Plus there were a few surprises along the way. Well done characters and several plots that are interwoven. My second book by this author, and I will likely be reading them all. Though part of the Kovac and Liska series, this is arguably a stand alone as the detectives only make brief cameo appearances in the beginning of the book.TBI and PTSD and their implica...

Cold, Cold Heart by Tami Hoag is a 2021 Dutton publication. Dana Nolan is a ‘Final Girl’- the only survivor of serial killer ‘Doc Holliday’. Dana was once a popular news anchor, but is now disfigured and suffering from memory loss due to a brain injury. Her memory is triggered when she’s asked about a high school friend, Casey Grant, who disappeared, leading Dana to a near obsession about the old case. Was Casey a victim of the same serial killer Dana tangled with or is the killer closer to home...

2.75. I chose this audio book purely because of Julia Whelan's narration. I have found that she tends to have impeccable taste in books that she narrates, given that they are all 4 stars or over so far for me. Well, unfortunately her expert narration did not save this book. This is my first by the author and I concede that she writes well with detailed descriptions of the scenes and people within. However, as other readers have pointed out, there were subplots that led nowhere, there were some a...

Dana Nolan has everything going for her – she is young, attractive, intelligent and has recently started a job as a newscaster – when she is abducted by a serial killer. The man, nicknamed Doc Holiday, plans to make her his ninth victim, but Dana manages to escape. However, survival is not that easy; Dana has suffered severe brain injuries, she has scars – both visible and unseen – and the killer has marked her forever. Now, she has to adjust to being a new Dana and to cope with her memory loss,...

I was thrown a bit at the start of this one. We had Liska and Kovac interacting with Dana, then all of a sudden they were gone. I kept waiting for them to show up and do their police thing, however this wasn't about them, this was Dana's journey. It might have helped had I read the blurb about the book, but this author is an auto read for me so I didn't bother.I felt for Dana, for her to live through what she did was a miracle in itself. I hated how Dana struggled with life in the aftermath. I t...

Cold Cold Heart by Tami Hoag had a great start. Then after the prologue, it was downhill all the way......right until the last page. The story opens with Dana Nolan, the protagonist killing the serial killer than had kidnapped and tortured her. Enter detectives Liska and Kovac, who are trying to close the investigation of the serial killer known as Doc Holliday. Now, before you think that this is another book in the author's Kovac & LIska Series...it isn't. They only make a quick appearance in t...