Dead Heat

By: Lisa Clark O'Neill

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Charlotte Parks feels like she’s going crazy. From misplaced items and phantom scents to specters of the past in the form of hallucination.
But as the incidents become more targeted, the coincidences increasingly cruel, Charlotte begins to suspect that someone is deliberately using her family history of psychosis to torment her for their own ends. Escaping to the serene waters of Lake Rabun, she first runs afoul of the local sheriff, Ethan McCloud, before finding it necessary to enlist his aid.
Is Charlotte being stalked, or is she simply paranoid? Because sometimes the most treacherous depths are in our mind.

Passive Women

I’ve listened to quite a few of Lisa Clark O’Neill’s books now. Some are better than others. I do like characters that are connected through different books, that is always fun. However, considering the author is a woman with daughters, the “alpha” male gets more focus than anything, even if the book is written around a female character.

WTH? Her sheriff characters in various books ALWAYS assume and talk over the women. That’s actually a bad trait in detectives and characters that are described as cunning, observant and excellent at their jobs.
Incredibly frustrating as a reader and I can bet her female characters dealing with the assuming everything incorrectly sheriffs want to slap them in annoyance as well.

Get ready for pinching the bridge of the nose when tired, romantic commitment within a few days and again, sheriffs and cops that assume instead of actually listening to witnesses and victims.

Other than that, the books are ok. Kind of a more modern version of the Phyllis Whitney books from the 60’s-70’s.