Very well written story
Best Served Cold, a novel by Carol Margaret Tetlow, opens with the unexpected death of Dr. Grace Dunstable's patient. Five years later, she is dealing with a busy medical practice and she is concerned about her aging parents, especially her mother. Attractive and charming Gideon enters her life and she is smitten. Even though they share some happy moments, Grace's life begins to unravel. She wonders how much more she can take.
The characters are well defined and their fictional world feels real. There is an underlying tension throughout the entire story and as a result, the story is suspenseful and engrossing. I found this to be a well written book. Highly recommended.
At first I would have called this a romance novel, however it slowly turns into a suspense thriller. The story begins building around our main character, Grace, a general practitioner at a clinic and includes her friends and coworkers. We are then introduced to her elderly parents that she attempts, among protests, to care for. The characters are well described and quickly become intriguing to the story. Harry, one of her coworkers is madly in love with her but has yet made his feelings known. When a new doctor, Gideon, enters the scene he quickly pursues and wins Grace's heart. Shortly thereafter he has moved into her home which is across the street from her parent's home so that she can keep a keen eye on them. Her retired doctor father and her bipolar mother begin to suffer mishap after mishap pulling Grace between her work, her parents and her relationship with Gideon. While trying to juggle everything Grace also begins to experience strange and disturbing coincidental mishaps of her own. With Gideon flip-flopping between being supportive and dismissive, Harry is there to help try to pick up the pieces and solve the mysteries.
"Best Served Cold" is a well-written drama with strong characters. The book pulls you in from the beginning prologue and quickly becomes a real page-turner as you wait to see how the beginning story-line concerning the death of one of Grace's patients ties into the events that follow in her life five years later.
This is a quick, easy read that I finished in one setting. I look forward to reading additional works by Carol Margaret Tetlow. I recommend you check "Best Served Cold" out. A "thumbs-up."
Reviewed by Brittany Dalton
8/19/2018
This is very hard book to read. It didn't make send to me at all. It took me a while to read it. It is not well written and I would bit tell people to read this book. I didn't understand the characters at all. I thought it would have been better than it was.
Reviewed by E Harris
8/12/2018
Best Served Cold, a novel by Carol Margaret Tetlow, opens with the unexpected death of Dr. Grace Dunstable's patient. Five years later, she is dealing with a busy medical practice and she is concerned about her aging parents, especially her mother. Attractive and charming Gideon enters her life and she is smitten. Even though they share some happy moments, Grace's life begins to unravel. She wonders how much more she can take.
The characters are well defined and their fictional world feels real. There is an underlying tension throughout the entire story and as a result, the story is suspenseful and engrossing. I found this to be a well written book. Highly recommended.
I received a complimentary copy of this book through Authors Den. The opinions expressed in this review are my own.
Reviewed by Hendrika Van Dijk
6/24/2018
Best Served Cold is an engaging story about a young woman Grace, who has a busy life as a family doctor and taking care of and worrying about her elderly parents. Her mother is suffering from bipolar disorder and has her ups and downs. When Grace meets Gideon, a neurologist who is new in town, she quickly falls in love with this charming doctor and she feels that finally she has the life that she was dreaming of. Then strange things start to happen in her life which really upsets her a lot and she starts to think that she might have the same mental issues as her mother. Her co-worker dr. Harry looks out for her as he is secretly in love with her. He slowly figures out that all these strange things that are happening to Grace and her family are not a coincidence. At first as a reader you really get to know Grace’s life and the way she is caring for her family and friends and everything seems normal. It then turns into a love story and you really feel good that Grace’s life is going so well. But when things start to get mixed up and even get dangerous you really can feel the tension and suspense and you just want to keep on reading to know how the story will end. As a reader you feel both sorry and worried about the main character Grace and her parents Sylvia and Douglas. I really loved reading the book because of all the twists and turns that you didn’t expect. It turns from a love story into a suspense thriller. You really get to know the main characters because of how well described they are in the book and you really get to know what they feel and think. A great book to get into the story and relate to the characters. Highly recommend it!
Reviewed by Laura H.
6/4/2018
Calling this book of intrigue and evil as delightful seems an oxymoron but -- it is the description that immediately popped into my head after reading the last word.
The way the author begins this story grabbed me immediately. While reading, I wondered how the prologue related to the rest of the book until the end when that 'ha ha' moment happened and the relevance of the prologue became clear.
The story decidedly takes place in England, where nurses and/or doctors make house calls as part of their daily routine. The quirks in language were classic of living in England.
Gideon's character is so insidiously evil but in such a controlled-sickeningly sweet way the reader is all but yelling at Grace to 'wake up'.
At its core the author found a brilliant way to combine the best and worst of people into one remarkable story. The characteristics of Grace, Gideon, Douglas, Sylvia, and Harry had me wondering if one or all of them may have been based in reality.
After reading this book, I am looking forward to reading others by this author. Also praise to the artist of the book's cover.
I loved him. At age twelve he touched my heart with his music. At age twenty he captured my heart when our eyes met as he sat on a stage and sang Four months later, he fractured my heart with his refusal to allow us to stay together. At age seventy
I wrote this novel several years ago, I self published and never had it to sell. I have decided to rewrite it and hope to get it published within a few months for people to be able to buy. I had a few copies and gave them to a few family members and
Shirine McVey discovers that twenty years of her life have elapsed since she went to sleep in a hotel room in El Paso, Texas. And worse, she is married to a man she doesn't know.
