Skeletons

by Kate Wilhelm

Book Overview

Lee Donne's family is gifted. Her mother has three doctorates, her father is an economics genius, and her grandfather is a world renowned Shakespearean scholar. Lee's own gift, if you could call it... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551667495
• ISBN13: 9781551667492
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Mira Books
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.3" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

wonderful story

this is the first book I have ever read by Kate Wilhelm & it was great. It was a little slow when it first started but once it got going it was really hard to put down. I just hope all of her books are as good, A young woman in the south is house sitting for her Grandfather. She finds pictures of men in the clan as they are hanging a men. She also finds pictures of the same men without the hoods. One of the men is running for President. At the same time his men find out about the pictures & the fact that she has found them. So they go after her. She stays one step ahead of them for a while. Wonderful story

Keeps you Guessing!

Lee Donne is housesitting for her grandfather when strange things start to happen. Things are going bump in the night. The house holds a secret--a secret someone dies for, a secret the FBI is searching for, a secret that just might kill Lee as well. Kate Wilhelm's Skeltons, takes original twists and turns that left me guessing. A wonderfully engrossing read!

Delightful Diversion! Hard to Put Down!

Kate Wilhelm has become one of my favorite writers of romantic suspense. Ever spent a summer afternoon delighted to be travelling the world in the pages of a Phyllis Whitney or M.M. Kaye novel? If so, you'll love this book!"Skeletons" is a delightful page turner. The mystery is well-plotted and suspenseful. Unraveling the strands of a decades-old secret takes our heroine, Lee, on an ever-more exciting journey across the country. It is also a voyage of self-discovery. Lee starts off as a not-quite college graduate, a few hours short after four years of shifting from major to major. In a family of overachievers, she is the disappointment. In the course of "Skeletons," she discovers herself as not just competent, but gifted.

Suspensful, exciting, smart!

This book had me riveted from start to finish. The lead females were smart and never once made the kind of idiot mistakes so many writers feel are necessary for female lead characters. They decide their own fates and they decide them well. They are victim to circumstances but they never allow themselves to be victimized or controlled by them. These characters are excellent role models for women of all ages. The book seems predictable, but only till the next page. The plot twists and turns under the superb guidance of Ms. Wilhelm until you are just breathless with it. I heartily recommend this book!

electrifying psychological suspense

She is the ugly duckling in a family of swans. Her mother has three doctorates; her father is a Ph.D. who advises world leaders; while her brother is an internist. Lee Donne has changed her major three times and in four years she doesn't have enough credits to graduate. She takes her grandfather up on his offer to house sit for five months while she regroups but when she settles in, a strange man tosses gravel at her house at night.Lee and Casey set a trap to catch the man but it backfires and he dies. Lee decides to find out what she is looking for but when she discovers a hidden door in the floor of the photo lab. There she discovers her family's darkest secret, their ties to the Klan. She also finds existence that a third party candidate running for the president once participated in a Klan lynching. Lee has the journalistic story of a life time but she has to live through various attempts or her life to see it in print.Kate Wilhelm is the mistress of psychological suspense and she proves it with SKELETONS, an electrifying tale filled with so many serpentine twists, readers are always taken by surprise by the plot developments. The maturation of the heroine from innocent protected schoolgirl to fugitive from a well hidden cell of fanatics rings true and shows the depth of the author's skills.Harriet Klausner