Garage Sale Stalker (Garage Sale Mysteries) (33 page)

READING GROUP DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1.
How
would you describe Jennifer
Shannon and her
relationship with her husband?

2. Explain her interest and insights into garage sales. What tactics did you learn about giving or attending these sales?

3. Jennifer Shannon discovers human interest stories at garage sales from people she doesn’t know. Have you ever learned an interesting story from a complete stranger?

4. How was Jennifer Shannon able to escape from her captor? What might you do in such a desperate situation?

5. How would you describe the lasting effects of Ruger Yates’ childhood? Do you consider him a victim or a villain? Do you think his Special Forces training played a role in who he became?

6. Compare the lives of Ruger and Mathis Yates. Discuss the likelihood of siblings from the same home environment turning out very differently.

7. How did Greg Bromley try to protect Wendy and Ruger? Discuss how the best of intentions can have tragic results.

8. Since the police can’t protect citizens at all times, discuss the contradictory roles of trust and suspicion in shaping one’s own self-defense.

9. What chance events affected Jennifer Shannon’s fate? Has your life been similarly impacted by random occurences?

10. Given their painful past experiences, what do you think the future holds for Hannah or Adam?

11. If Ruger’s dog had made a different decision about who to side with in the bedroom of the uninhabited mansion, do you think an alternate outcome with Jennifer might have unfolded successfully?