WINNERS of last 6 giveaways

Few announcements first - going forward - any books not claimed or where original winners no longer want book - these books will be given away on twitter to the first person who responds to my tweet.  If your name is highlighted below, then you have not confirmed the win (or email has been lost to cyberspace).  I will try to come in and remove highlights as winners verify. 

And if you didn't win - did you see all the new giveaways in the sidebar?  Spread the word - I seem to be having a lot of the same people winning over and over again - which is good for them, but I would like some new blood!

Desire Me

#23 - cats99

#21 - Christine

#16 - Shirley

Men and Dogs (audiobook)

#25 - Beth

#26 - Benita

#13 - ChristyJan

The Bride Collector (audiobook)

#3 - Heather - did not get back to me so twitter winner is - (It has been tweeted - have yet to get a response. . )

#12 - chirth7

#5 - Toystory

What's Really Hood!

#2 - MarthaLawson (already won) so book was given away on Twitter to Lora

#5 - Shirley

#8 - Steve Capell

The War Lovers (audiobook)

#1 - Steve Capell

#12 - Denny, Alaska

#20 - catss99

Deliver Us From Evil (audiobook)

#32 - Justmom

#9 - Mystica

#4 - throuthehaze

The Bride Collector by Ted Dekker - audiobook giveaway!

The Bride Collector (audiobook)

by Ted Dekker, read by John Glover

FBI Special agent Brad Raines is facing his toughest case yet. A Denver serial killer has killed four beautiful young women, leaving a bridal veil at each crime scene, and he's picking up his pace. Unable to crack the case, Raines appeals for help from a most unusual source: residents of the Center for Wellness and Intelligence, a private psychiatric institution for mentally ill individuals whose are extraordinarily gifted.

It's there that he meets Paradise, a young woman who witnessed her father murder her family and barely escaped his hand. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Paradise may also have an extrasensory gift: the ability to experience the final moments of a person's life when she touches the dead body.

In a desperate attempt to find the killer, Raines enlists Paradise's help. In an effort to win her trust, he befriends this strange young woman and begins to see in her qualities that most 'sane people' sorely lack. Gradually, he starts to question whether sanity resides outside the hospital walls...or inside.

As the Bride Collector picks up the pace-and volume-of his gruesome crucifixions, the case becomes even more personal to Raines when his friend and colleague, a beautiful young forensic psychologist, becomes the Bride Collector's next target.

The FBI believes that the killer plans to murder seven women. Can Paradise help before it's too late?

Listen to an excerpt

GIVEAWAY

I have 3 copies of this audiobook to giveaway courtesy of Hachette Books.

Open to U.S./Canada. No PO boxes.

This giveaway will end July 5.

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The Bride Collector by Ted Dekker

Title: The Bride Collector
Author: Ted Dekker
Publisher: Center Street/Hachette Books

My synopsis/thoughts: We meet Brad Raines, FBI agent, and his partner Nikki after the serial killer takes his fourth victim.  All have been beautiful women, left behind with only a bridal veil - hence the serial killer has been dubbed The Bride Collector.  With the fourth victim, however, comes a note that gives Brad his first glimpse of what the killer is really like.  This note leads them to the Center for Wellbeing and Intelligence.

This Center is home to mentally ill patients who are also highly gifted individuals.  There we meet a group of patients who Brad calls on to give him a different aspect of his killer.  Paradise is a young girl - schizophrenic and agoraphobic - who appears to have the ability to see someone's last moments if she touches their dead body.  Roudy has a brilliant mind that works at a much greater pace than anyone's around him.  Allison is the ex-nun who facillitates the meeting up of her patients and Brad.  She enables us to see the patients for their abilities and not their "illness".

We also meet the killer early on in the book.  I love the fact that you don't go through the thriller trying to figure out who is doing the killing - but instead, you get to try to figure out WHY he is killing and how everyone is connected.  Especially after the killer starts making it personal with Brad. 

I noticed in someone else's review that they brought up that Mr. Dekker is able to write these wonderful thriller's with very graphic portrayals and yet can do so without using any profanity.  Well done!  I love thrillers, and sometimes feel that the use of profanity is a "lazy" effort to portray "bad" people or situations.  (Ok - I feel the wrath of some authors coming on here - and no, I am not a writer so this is just MHO.)  I can still remember a poster from my highschool English class (and we are going back a ways here!) that said something to the effect "Profanity is a strong effort of a weak mind to express itself forcefully."  I will get off my soapbox now...

I'll just finish by saying I loved this book.  Highly recommend it - and can't wait to read another my Ted Dekker.  I actually have Burn smoldering in my TBR pile!

The Bride Collector is not due out until April 13 - but if you preorder - you can receive a free PDF of Ted Dekker's first unpublished novel.

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The Bride Collector
Publisher/Publication Date: Center Street, April 13, 2010
ISBN: 978-1-59995-196-6
416 pages