Always Six O'Clock

by Phoef Sutton

Book Overview

In this modern masterpiece of romance and mystery, award-winning screen-writer Phoef Sutton creates a haunting tale of love and loss in the classic tradition of Rebecca and Vertigo...Facing a midlife... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568659717
• ISBN13: 9781568659718
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell
• Length: 431 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Gave me goose bumps

A wonderfully chilling, romantic thriller. I could not stop reading it. Phoef Sutton has a way of keeping you in suspense, never wanting to stop. Gave me goosebumps, and at times made my eyes water cause of how thrilling it was (not because I was crying). I was so sad to see it end.

A mystery/thriller with a human touch

Everyone has something to regret in their past that they would love to be able to relive and make right. In the case of Carl Rooney it is having abandoned his high school sweetheart, Jesse, in a time of need, something he has regreted for seventeen years. When Jesse appears outside his window one night, throwing pebbles to wake him and as she used to do when they were in school, he finds himself falling for her again and confronting a mystery. Jesse has "lost" the seventeen years and actually believes they are still teenagers. The mystery of what has happened to her, where she has been and whether Carl has a chance to make up for his past mistake, set the stage for the story that follows. Phoef Sutton has crafted a genre bending tale that is part romance, part mystery/thriller, with a little comic relief to lighten the dark parts. Sutton, best known as the award winning writer for "Cheers", has a great facility with language and both dialogue and descriptive passages in this book are fun to read. One might think that using amnesia as a plot device would result in something resembling a soap opera, but it is redeemed here because the reader, for Carl's sake, really wants to know what has happened to Jesse. The mystery aspect of the book works better than the thriller parts, which are predictable and not that exciting. It is really the human interest aspect of the story that keeps the reader's attention, and if Carl is something of a wimp, he's all the more human for that. Jesse turns out to be the stronger character and the story's resolution, while deliberately ambiguous, is really right for the people that Carl and Jesse have become.One thing that puzzled me about the book is that since Sutton is a sitcom writer and chose to make his main character a sitcom writer, why did the plot have nothing to do with sitcoms or the entertainment industry? With his insider's perspective one can only assume that Sutton could write a trememdously interesting book with the TV industry as the focus of the story. Something to look forward to, perhaps.I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone ready for something just a little different. I'm hoping that Sutton is working on another.

It was a great mystery thriller for first time novelist.

I not only found Phoef Sutton's book a great page turner, it also brought back feelings of nostalgia. He captures perfectly the emotions surrounding first loves and what would happen if they were to reappear. He then wraps this up in mystery/thriller. It was so good on some many levels. I recently discovered that Phoef not only wrote for Cheers but also has a new sitcom called "Thanks" coming out August 2 on CBS. I am truly impressed with this author's versatility.

this book is excellant.

i loved this book. it was sooo good. it had an excellant love story plus it kept you in suspense. the ending was really good too. i couldnt put this book down. i highly recomend it.

A funny, mysterious, wonderful new book!

This is a great, new book. I'm often wary when I pick up a thriller by a new writer because the story so often lacks the thrill...but I was delighted by "Always Six O'clock" by Phoef Sutton. It's a compelling story with interesting segues that move you from one scene to the next without feeling like you've been hit over the head. Full of surprises and unexpected nuances, Sutton's writing style is fluid and full of energy and reminds me of the best of the best of the mystery writers that you can't put down. In fact, I couldn't put this one down. Written about a woman who is literally stopped in time...only she's stuck back 20 years when everyone around her has moved on...the story reveals how Jesse, the main character, overcomes what was supposed to be her death and how Carl, her high school sweetheart and the true love of her life, finds himself by helping Jesse piece her life back together. Eerie and funny at the same time, I actually laughed out loud as I was reading it. The characters pop off the page and even when I was finished, I couldn't help but wonder what was going to happen to them. A very real and a very, very good read. I highly recommend this one to anyone who likes a great story and the suspense of the unexpected.