The Glass Cocoon

By Christopher J. Jarmick

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970207808
• ISBN13: 9780970207807
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Flibbertigibbet Promulgations
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.3" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

A Thriller That Grabs the Reader and Doesn't Let Go!

A great read, The Glass Cocoon will meet your expectations and more. Jarmick and Holder have created a suspense thriller with a well-developed plot that includes a wonderful love story, intriguing Internet chat rooms, and murders that kept me guessing until solved. Excellent, too, are the many poems throughout that are a wonderful addition to a great read! Hopefully, these authors will collaborate again because I eagerly await their next thriller.

Internet Suspense-Thriller Horrifying and Romantic

I love this book.It could easily be a true story and perhaps is for all we know.I strongly suspect it's based on some truth. At first the book plunges us into a horrifying, chaotic worldwhere people have been brutally murdered. We meet several characters and a few turn out to be the main ones in the book.We pick up the story all over again from the beginning this time.It's a gutsy thing when they do something like this in a movie, but I've never come across it in a book before. It could be a little confusing, it definitely throws one a little off balance,and it's an absolute delight.The romance, the love story that occurs in this book feels soreal and you can really understand how two people could meeton something like the internet and fall in love without evermeeting each other.But there's so much more going on in both the romance and in the book. There's either a serial killer or stalker or combination of both who is killing people and the killing seems to be directed directly at either one or both of the two internet lovers Patricia and Phillip. There is beautiful poetry in this book. It fits right into the story as well. Tells us more about the characters, lets us understand the depth and meaning of passion the way so few books do.There is very hot sex in this book as well, so it is not one for the very timid.I couldn't recommend this book enough for someone who wants to read something not just entertaining, not just memorable, not just exciting and suspenseful, but written extremely wellby two authors, who like the characters they created meton the internet.Wow.I can't wait until the authors write another one and hope sales of this pick up so that happens sooner than later.

Exciting romantic murder mystery

They met and fell in love inside a chat room. As unlikely a couple one would expect except for that matchmaker the Internet, which sees no artificial human boundaries when it comes to pairing people. Having one divorce under his belt, Cle Elum Washington freelance photographer Phillip Craven never sought love. Taos, New Mexico bookstore owner Patricia Ridgeway is not only married, but also her spouse seems like a nice person who cares and loves Trish. Yet Trish and Phillip are in love and plan to physically share a permanent relationship. However, someone else apparently objects to the cyberspace love match between Trish and Phillip. Besides crank calls, that individual begins to murder people associated with Trish and Phillip. His girlfriend is decapitated. Her neighbor is mutilated. Phillip rushes to New Mexico to keep Trish safe and using his forensic photography skills tries to help the police capture a vicious murderer before other people die. THE GLASS COCOON is a thrilling romantic murder mystery starring two likable lead characters. The story line grips the audience who gains a taste of the dark side of cyberspace without needing to understand HTML. Readers will want authors Christopher J. Jarmick and Serena F. Holder to combine their skills with more police procedural-amateur sleuth tales like this entertaining novel.Harriet Klausner

Glass Cocoon, Solid book

The idea of a thriller based on the internet interested me, particularly since the book is not an overly technical or science fiction type of novel. I was then amazed with the story of how the authors went about writing it. They wrote this book entirely over the internet and without an outline. They never met each other in person and live in different parts of the country.So, I started on a wonderful adventure reading this book. It is a wonderful suspense novel. One that I couldn't put down. It had a mixture of many textures and is loaded with interesting characters. The book has so many elements in it, it is almost mind boggling. From a suspense thriller, murder mystery to hightech, erotic romance and even poetry. Poetry that always brought the romance back to reality. Few books I've read capture the emotions of a true and deep love that so many crave as well as this book does. And it does this without slowing down, without detouring or becoming any less exciting or suspenseful.The two main characters are Phillip Craven and Patricia Ridgeway who live in different states. A friendship and connection is made through the internet and the fantasy becomes more of a reality as shocking and disturbing events begin occurringThe book opens up with a prologue where first Patricia and then Phillip are introduced and right away are in the middle of a horrifying event. We don't exactly understand at first all that has occurred and then the prologue stops and the book backtracks and begins to explain what has happened and the characters and places which are involved. As it does so, it adds layers to the plot, to the characters, to relationships and does so while becoming more suspenseful and interesting.Phillip's and Patricia's love is tested in many ways and comes to fruition and deepens with the powerful ending.This is a book that gives us both a wonderful and frightening look at cyberspace. The characters become real. The events even more so. You care about what happens to Phillip and Patricia and their friends that are drawn into their mysterious adventure. You find yourself wanting to go turn your computer off and just write letters. It left me with a new respect and knowledge of how we use the internet. Just as when I am in crowds and always try to keep a watchful eye out for mischief makers, I will do the same when I go into chat rooms. I certainly hope the authors quickly write the next adventure with their two characters. I look forward to it with great anticipation.

Incredibly written, wonderfully romantic thriller!!!

In this over-emphasized world of cyber-hype I was hesitant to begin this novel when handed it by an acquaintance. Had I followed my first instincts I would have robbed myself of one of the greatest reading adventures of my life! These two authors have created within my own mind images of characters that danced before me like a movie...only much better! Unlike a movie, we were made privy to these characters' deepest thoughts, as well as glimpses into times in their lives that shaped them, yet had no real place within the story itself. It was incredibly written and orchestrated considering the number of plots, sub-plots and characters! I am hoping to read MORE from these two first time authors. Thanks for a wonderfully thrilling way to spend a rainy weekend!