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Die for You

by Lisa Unger

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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:Isabel Raine thought she had everythingâ??a successful career, a supportive family, and a happy marriage to the man she loved. Then one ordinary morning, her husband, Marcus, picks up his briefcase, kisses her good-bye, and simply vanishes.
That day, all her calls to him go straight to voice mail; the messages she leaves at his office go unreturned, too. Panicking after finally receiving a call from his cell phone in which all she can hear is a manâ??s terrified cry, Isabel calls the police. But they arenâ??t interested. Men leave, they tell her. They leave all the time. Desperate to find her husband, Isabel races to his office. But instead of finding him, she finds herself in the middle of an FBI raid. Hours later, she awakens in the hospital with a severe concussion and a homicide detective by her bedside waiting to question her about Marcus Raineâ??the real Marcus Raine.  
Now the only thing Isabel knows for sure is that her husband of five years is gone. Where is he and who is he are questions no one seems able to answer. But Isabel will not rest until she discovers the truth about the man she loves, even if it means risking everythingâ??including her own life. 
Bestselling author Lisa Unger takes us on a nightmarish journey from bustling, glamorous New York City to the murky, twisted streets of Prague, seeking the answer to one bone-chilling question: What if the man you love, the one sleeping beside you, is a s
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"Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time". With author Lisa Unger I often find myself with a "glad I read this book" rating. This one being no different. This love accepts quote and a few others from this story has me stopping to see how I feel about that statement. For the record, the love accepts quote I find so very accurate. I enjoyed the storyline taking place in New York and also Prague. I enjoyed the sister relationship between Isabel & Linda. The ending with Isabel sharing her thoughts was quite realistic. I'm pleased Unger ended Die For You in this manner. ( )
  BONS | Feb 22, 2023 |
Isabel and Marcus Raines are the perfect couple. She is a well known novelist and he is a brilliant inventor of high-tech games. They 19ve been married for five years and still enjoy a loving romance. But one morning, Marcus says he loves her, leaves for work, and disappears into thin air. Isabel keeps trying to reach him but he doesn't return. When his call finally comes, she hears only a man's terrified scream. Isabel races to Marcus's office, trying to find some answers. Instead she finds herself in the middle of an FBI raid, and she is knocked unconscious. When she awakes in a hospital, she learns that everyone Marcus worked with is dead. She returns home to find their apartment ransacked, and the police are there. They urge her to check her bank accounts. All of her money is gone. Then the police discover that Marcus Raines is a dead man. Long dead. Years dead. Isabel will not rest until she finds the truth about the man she loved, who he was, where he 19s gone, and how he was able to deceive her so completely.

This wasn't my favorite book by Lisa Unger. It was interesting but so unbelievable. her characters actions (and infidelities) way too far fetched for the reader to care too much about them. I thought Isabel was unbelievable and as a result I didn't care for the story at all. ( )
  Olivermagnus | Jul 2, 2020 |
At the beginning, very interesting and exciting, with a lot of mystery/intrigue, but then it became very unlikely and completely far fetched. ( )
  rmarcin | Jan 22, 2019 |
Isabel Connelly is enjoying life as a bestselling author in a five year marriage to Marcus Raine, believing happy in all circumstances. Marcus leaves one day for his company and doesn’t return that night. As she seeks to find him and whether anything about him is true. ( )
  luvely94books | Feb 21, 2018 |
This is my first Lisa Unger book, and definitely my last. I found it extremely annoying in every way, from the prologue, to the end where she jumped around and you had no idea what was going on, to the "news report" that was so ridiculously unprofessional it would never make the air to the multitude of dumb characters that littered this book. I'm not fond of first person writing, and the fact that the protagonist is also an author and at every turn had to remind us of how she sees things that others don't is annoying.

Almost every character is extremely unlikable/selfish/dumb, especially the protagonist. The only likeable characters were the kids and her step-father, Fred. And speaking of kids, how they turned out OK is a miracle, with their mother being a vacuous moron who claims to love her husband and life, but is having an affair. Oh, and she doesn't just "have sex" with the guy, but she "makes love" with him. Everyone in the book "makes love". Sure. Linda & Ben get down & dirty in a coffee shop bathroom, but it's "making love". He threatens her family and kills himself in front of her, and she still has "feelings" for him. What??

Her equally selfish/dumb sister who gets taken for a ride by her homicidal hubby, then beaten up by his girlfriend, and almost killed several times, she still can't stop talking about how much she loves him and then runs after him. To get her money back? No, "to find out why" he did everything he did. What? Ugh, dummy, he did it because he's a homicidal lunatic and you're his mark. Enough said. I almost didn't finish this book, and really I shouldn't have because it was really annoying. I just wanted to see how it ended and if she would die. No loss, there, but I should have read a spoiler rather than endure this drivel. ( )
  Fubarahh | Aug 6, 2017 |
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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:Isabel Raine thought she had everythingâ??a successful career, a supportive family, and a happy marriage to the man she loved. Then one ordinary morning, her husband, Marcus, picks up his briefcase, kisses her good-bye, and simply vanishes.
That day, all her calls to him go straight to voice mail; the messages she leaves at his office go unreturned, too. Panicking after finally receiving a call from his cell phone in which all she can hear is a manâ??s terrified cry, Isabel calls the police. But they arenâ??t interested. Men leave, they tell her. They leave all the time. Desperate to find her husband, Isabel races to his office. But instead of finding him, she finds herself in the middle of an FBI raid. Hours later, she awakens in the hospital with a severe concussion and a homicide detective by her bedside waiting to question her about Marcus Raineâ??the real Marcus Raine.  
Now the only thing Isabel knows for sure is that her husband of five years is gone. Where is he and who is he are questions no one seems able to answer. But Isabel will not rest until she discovers the truth about the man she loves, even if it means risking everythingâ??including her own life. 
Bestselling author Lisa Unger takes us on a nightmarish journey from bustling, glamorous New York City to the murky, twisted streets of Prague, seeking the answer to one bone-chilling question: What if the man you love, the one sleeping beside you, is a s

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Isabel en Marcus Raine zijn het volmaakte stel: zij is een bekende romanschrijfster, hij een briljante game-ontwerper. Hun huwelijk is nog even romantisch als toen ze vijf jaar geleden trouwden en het geluk lijkt op hun hand. Tot op een ochtend als alle andere Marcus zijn tas pakt, Isabel gedag kust en van de aardbodem verdwijnt.

Hoe vaak Isabel hem die dag ook belt, ze krijgt alleen zijn voicemail. En als ze dan eindelijk vanaf zijn gsm wordt gebeld, hoort ze het geschreeuw van een man in doodsangst. In paniek belt Isabel de politie, die lauw reageert: volwassen mannen verdwijnen niet zomaar. Ze haast zich naar zijn kantoor, maar raakt daar betrokken bij een inval van de FBI. Uren later komt ze bij in een ziekenhuis, waar de politie haar ondervraagt over Marcus Raine. De echte Marcus Raine.

Nu is de jacht geopend, want Isabel zal niet rusten voordat ze de waarheid heeft achterhaald over de man van wie ze dacht te houden, ook al moet ze daarvoor alles op het spel zetten, zelfs haar eigen leven.

Lisa Unger [1970] is de succesvolle auteur van de internationale bestsellers Mooie leugens, Halve waarheden en Black-out. Ze woont met haar man en dochtertje in Florida, de Verenigde Staten.
Isabel Raine thought she had everything. A successful career, a supportive family, and a happy marriage to the man she loved. Then one ordinary morning, her husband, Marcus, picked up his briefcase, kissed her goodbye, and simply vanished.

That day all her calls went straight to voicemail; the messages she left at his office went unreturned too. Panicking after finally receiving a call from his cell phone in which all she could hear was a man’s terrified cry, Isabel called the police. But they weren’t interested. Men leave, they told her. They leave all the time. Desperate to find her husband, Isabel raced to his office. But instead of finding him, she finds herself in the middle of an FBI raid. Hours later, she awakens in the hospital with a severe concussion and a homicide detective by her bedside waiting to question her about Marcus Raine — the real Marcus Raine.

Now the only thing Isabel knows for sure is that her husband of five years is gone. Where is he—who is he—are questions no one seems to be able to answer. But Isabel will not rest until she finds the truth about the man she loves, even if it means risking everything—including her own life.

Bestselling author Lisa Unger takes us on a nightmarish journey from bustling, glamorous New York City to the murky, twisted streets of Prague, seeking the answer to one bone-chilling question: What if the man you love, the one sleeping beside you, is a stranger?
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