Who's Susan

by L.C. Hayden

The first eighteen years of Susan Haynes' life are a complete blank. Finding her past is not a priority until she goes to the daycare center to pick up her four-year old son Timmy. The center insists... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966636619
• ISBN13: 9780966636611
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Top Publications
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

wonderful

When Susan Haynes goes to Happy Child Day Center to pick up her son Tommy, the manager Ms.Cortez tells her that she had already signed her son out at noon. Susan freaks because she knows that this is not true. She then calls her husband, Jeff at the bank, and he tells her to call the police. Susan is somewhat afraid to call the police because of her background. See, Susan does not remember 18 years of her life. All that she has been told is that the family chauffeur, Saul, dropped her off in Dallas at Bell View Mental Institute at the age of 8 years old completely catatonic. As the investigation begins, everyone is willing to believe and assist Susan, but with each detail of her psychiatric care revealed in news reports, people begin to blame her. She is then left with only the support of her husband Jeff and Detective Harry Bronson, the detective assigned to investigate what happened to little Timmy. Jeff, feeling that he can no longer trust her, eventually deserts her too. Detective Bronson tells Susan that he needs her to take a polygraph test because the District Attorney's Office had doubts. He assures her that he does believe her, but that this will help prove she is innocent of kidnapping her son. She begins to feel that her past is connected to her son's disappearance so she decides to go back to Pine Basin, New Mexico without telling anyone. She sets out to answer the questions to her past and hopefully find Timmy. The book from the very first page mesmerized me. The author keeps you hanging on to her every word, and it stays that way through the entire book. There are so many ups and downs in the book that you feel like you are on a roller coaster ride. This book is filled with characters that are real to life. My two favorite characters are Susan, who was willing to risk life and limb to recover her son, and Detective Bronson, who is a Columbo-kind of cop that dresses and appears to be incompetent, but watch out for him. He is as sly as a fox and he sticks by Susan the entire time when even her husband abandons her. This was a well-written, high-pitched suspense story with an ending you would not believe.

A real suspense thriller, I could not put this book down.

`Mrs Haynes, you were here at noon and you have already picked him up' Susan stood numb not understanding. Where is Timmy?.The opening chapter of this book, ensures that the reader is gripped from the start. Susan Haynes is sure that she hasn't already collected her little boy Timmy from the daycare centre, but if she hasn't, where is he? And why do they think she has already collected him?.So Susan's nightmare begins. Initially, her husband , the police, the community she lives in, are all there to support her, but one by one they drop away, as they learn that Susan has been under psychiatric care, and has no recollection of the first eighteen years of her life.Forced to confront her past, which Susan is convinced is where the recovery of her son lies, Susan faces terror alone. Each time she attempt's to lift the veil that shrouds her memory she is afflicted by blinding headaches.This is a real suspense thriller. I could not put this book down. Being an avid mystery reader, I was pretty sure I had it worked out, only to find that I had been wrong. The climax of the book provided several surprises. Highly recommended Lizzie Hayes October 1999

Great thriller

The nightmare begins when Susan Haynes travels to the Happy Child Daycare Center to pick up her four-year old son Timmy. The manager, Miss Cortez, insists that Susan previously came and took her child with her. A panic-stricken Susan calls her husband Jeff at the bank where he works. He tells her to call the police, but Susan hesitates because she fears their reaction. Susan cannot remember anything about the first eighteen years of her life and everyone at the center including her son's best friend, swears she took Timmy with her at noon. Nothing surfaces involving the whereabouts of her son. Soon the police, friends, relatives, and even Jeff think Susan hurt or perhaps even killed Timmy and is using kidnapping as a ploy to cover her crime. However, Susan knows her son is in danger. Why he is in peril and from whom will only be answered if his mother can answer the question WHO'S SUSAN? With this extraordinary tale, L.C. Hayden shows the talent of a writer who belongs with the suspense superstars. The story line is non-stop excitement as the heroine stands alone, accused, but still searching for her lost son. The characters are superb, especially Susan who will gain much reader applause as an intrepid heroine willing to face unknown demons from her past to save her child. This taut thriller deserves wide readership as the audience will soon ask who's L.C. Hayden and when will the next novel appear?Harriet Klausner

A great story to wrap up with for an evening.

Finding out WHO'S SUSAN? becomes a critical issue when Susan is forced to search alone for her son. The daycare insists that Susan herself picked up Timmy, but Susan knows better. Yet no one believes her and one by one everyone turns against her, the police, her husband, her friends and sometimes even Susan herself. Susan has a secret. The first eighteen years of her life are a mystery. slowly she starts remembering and she starts wondering: could she have picked Timmy up and not remember? This is a two thumbs up novel guaranteed to keep the reader turning the pages. Once you pick it up, you won't be able to put it down. Get a cup of cocoa, and settle in for a good read.

A gripping tale of a parents worst nightmare.

A mysterious tale of a courageous woman who has learned to live without a past until her child disappears from a day care center. When it appears her past is connected to the missing child, she searches for her identity in hopes it will lead her to her son. Her search is made doubly hard due to her own grief, charges that she is involved in the disappearance and her own husbands mistrust. L.C. Hayden is definately a talented writer who has created a real page turner.