More Winners!

I have winners to announce for the 4 audiobook giveaways that ended last night at midnight! Thank you Anna and Hachette for these great giveaways!

Boneman's Daughter goes to:
Cindy
Clenna
Nightdweller20

The Horse Boy goes to:
Kitten22
Sue W.
quelleheure4

Mr. Popper's Penguins goes to:
Bermudaonion
Carol M.
gaby317
Allisonmariecat
Valerie2350

Priceless Memories goes to:
Sue W.
Anna
Cindy

All the winners have been emailed and have until midnight Tuesday to get me their information or I will need to draw for new winners! Don't forget to enter the 4 new audiobook giveaways that were just posted last night!

Boneman's Daughter by Ted Dekker - Audiobook Giveaway!

It is time for some new giveaways from Hachette! To start them out I have 3 copies of Boneman's Daughters audiobooks to give away. (Thanks Anna and Hachette!) I will be hosting giveaways for another audio book everyday this week - so be sure to come back by!

Synopsis (from Barnes and Noble)

They call him BoneMan, a serial killer who's abducted six young women. He's the perfect father looking for the perfect daughter, and when his victims fail to meet his lofty expectations, he kills them by breaking their bones and leaving them to die.

Intelligence officer Ryan Evans, on the other hand, has lost all hope of ever being the perfect father. His daughter and wife have written him out of their lives.

Everything changes when BoneMan takes Ryan's estranged daughter, Bethany, as his seventh victim. Ryan goes after BoneMan on his own.

But the FBI sees it differently. New evidence points to the suspicion that Ryan is BoneMan. Now the hunter is the hunted, and in the end, only one father will stand.

Rules are:

1. Canada or U.S. only - NO P.O boxes! (books will be coming direct from Hachette)
2. 3 copies to give away
3. Contest runs from May 5 - May 22 (midnight CST)

How do you enter? (Put all entries into one comment please)

1. For your first entry you must tell me your favorite Ted Dekker book, or if you haven't read anything by him, then tell me that also. W/o this entry, no other entries will count. YOU MUST INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS.

2. If you sign up to follow my blog (or already do) - 2 entries

3. If you sign up to follow in a feed reader, email subscription or facebook - 2 entries

4. If you tweet or post this giveaway on your blog and leave the link back here - 2 entries

MAXIMUM entries is 5.

BoneMan's Daughter by Ted Dekker (Book Review)

Title: BoneMan's Daughter
Author: Ted Dekker
Publisher: Hachette
Genre: Thriller
Available: Today! April 14
My ebook was provided by Net Galley.

First sentence: The day that Ryan Evans' world forever changed began as any other day he'd spent in the hot desert might have begun.

Ryan Evans is a Naval Intelligence Officer on location near Fallujah. Normally he deciphers information from his desk, but today he is being sent out to a remote location. His caravan is hit on the road and he is taken hostage by a man called Kahlid. Kahlid wants to show America all the senseless killing of women and children that is happening because of America's bombs. He tells Ryan that he must either tell him where his wife and daughter live, or watch more children die in front of him by having their bones broken one by one.

Many days and several children later, Ryan is able to escape. But is he leaving the same man that he was when he was captured?

Celine and Bethany are Ryan's wife and 16 year old daughter back in Texas. They were abandoned by Ryan years ago because he felt the best way to serve them, the only way he knew how, was to serve his country. Now he is back and wants to be the husband and father he never was. But Celine is currently involved with the D.A. Burton Welsh. Is it too late for this family to mend?

BoneMan is a serial killer that made his way across Texas two years earlier. A man was convicted and sent to prison. Evidence has come to light that the blood samples that were used to convict may have been planted. BoneMan has been set free. Ricki Valentine, the FBI agent who was on the case 2 years ago, reopens the investigation now. Either they have just released a serial killer back on the public, or they never had him to begin with.

BoneMan has been looking for the perfect daughter - as he considers himself to be the perfect father. When the girls he abducts do not live up to his expectations - he is forced to kill them by breaking their bones one by one. After two years of no activity, he is feeling the need to find a daughter again. Who better than the soon to be step daughter of the D.A. that is trying to find him and the daughter of a man who doesn't deserve her - as he abandoned her years earlier? How far will a father go to protect his daughter?

This is my second Ted Dekker book and I can't wait for more. I love the way that we really get to know these characters. We can feel their pain, their frustration, their fear. And what is scarier than having one of your children abducted! If you love thrillers, this is a book you won't want to miss.

Teaser Tuesday 4-7-2009

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to: Grab your current read.

Let the book fall open to a random page.

Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.

You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

Please avoid spoilers!

The man's breath smelled like clean dirt. Like most Middle Easterners, he valued cleanliness far more than your typical westerner - even here in the desert, assuming he hadn't been out long enough to have been driven to a city, the man would take care to bathe each day. Ryan could still smell the soap on him. (p26, uncorrected proof, Boneman's Daughter by Ted Dekker)