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| Plot Summary of Cry Wolf |
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"In rural Louisianna youn women are dissapearing,only to later wash up on the banks of the bayou. Attorney Laurel Chandler has come home after her career and marriage are destroyed by her pursuit for the truth,not to mention her nearly destroyed sanity. Finally the killer strikes close to home and she is lured into the killers own perverse game."
Sarah, Resident Scholar
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"Cry Wolf is about a lawyer who comes home to a small town in Louisiana to find a serial killer running around and a relationship with a man she doesn't think she needs. Soon she finds herself falling in love with the man who claims to care about no one and nothing and meanwhile she is the target of the killer who has already murdered two other women she knew."
NicholeWooldridge, Resident Scholar
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"Cry Wolf is a murder mystery about a young lawyer who has fled her job and life in Georgia after losing a career shattering case.. Laurael Chandler has returned to her Louisian Bayou roots to regroup, only to find that a killer has taken to murdering young women of questionable reputations. Laurel is confronted by Jack Boudreax, an ex-lawyer turned fiction writer. She and Jack are thrust into a heated affair.
After Laurel's own sister is missing, she begins to question odd trinkets that have been placed for her to find. It's as if the killer is beckoning her to find him. Jack is, of course, suspect number one, because whomever has killed the young women in this small town and adjacent towns decided to use Jack's murder scenes as a model for his own. Now Laurel has to prove Jack's innocence while she searches for justice. "
Kandi Bouldin, Resident Scholar
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"Cry Wolf is a story of a young woman, Laurel Chandler, who is haunted by her past. She returns to the Looisiana bayou where she grew up as a child with her sister, Savanna Chandler. During her time there, she learns of a murderer that kidnaps women of questionable reputations and murders them. Laurel is determined to find the killer and bring him to justice even though many doubt her abilities. While searching for the killer, she falls in love with Jack B., and her relationship with him deepens as she fights against it. During the story, Laurel has flashbacks of her childhood and after her sister Savanna is killed, Laurel is even more determined to bring the killer to justice. Laurel suspects a few people of being the killer, including Reverend Jimmy Lee Baldwin, and tells the sheriff of her suspicions. Shortly after this happens, Jimmy Lee goes to the sheriff and tells him that he believes Jack is behind the killings. Laurel finds out and is upset, but by using the clues that the killer left her, she discovers who is behind it all. Now all she must do is prove the killer guilty and not be hurt in the process."
Hannah Fagler, Resident Scholar
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| Review Analysis of Cry Wolf |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 60%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10%
Tone of story
- suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
How difficult to spot villain?
- Difficult, but some clues given
Time/era of story:
- 1980's-1999
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 30%
Murder of certain profession?
- lawyer creatures
Misc. Murder Plotlets
- character killed during/after sexing
- Big focus on forensic evidence
Kind of investigator
- amateur citizen investigator
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Any non-mystery subplot?
- feelings towards family/friends
Crime Thriller
Yes
Crime plotlets:
- escape/rescue from kidnappers
Murder Mystery (killer unknown)
Yes
General Crime (including known murderer)
Yes
If story PRIMARILY about main chr. being hunted...
- hunted by killer/stalker
Is Romance a MAJOR (25%+) part of story?
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- a lawyer creature
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How much violence does he/she use?
- a little
Ethnicity/Race
- White/American
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- a lawyer creature
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
Motive of antagonist
- power
The antagonists are:
- lawyer creatures
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
- Southeast
Water?
Yes
Water:
- sail boat
Small town?
Yes
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- licking
- actual description of sex
- descript. of breasts
- descript. of other female areas
- descript. of male nudity
- rape (yeech!)
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
Unusual form of death?
Yes
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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