San Francisco, 1906. The great West Coast city is a center of industry and excitement--and also, to many, of sin. When the Great Earthquake hits... read full description
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Sep 10, 2008
Jenie
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Stars out well enough, but rapidly degenerates. The writing is clumsy and trite, and the big bad villain is ridiculously mincing and melodramatic - far too so to actually take seriously. The main character, Sgt. Blackburn, I have no quarrel with. And the secondary hero and title character, Shane Nightingale, is also fine. But with the exception of the orphan girl Shane befriends and a few of the padres at the Mission, every other character is flat, 2-dimensional, stereotypical, and worst of
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Feb 28, 2010
Jeannie
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---A Cop, A Kid, and An Earthquake---
Anthony Flacco’s The Last Nightingale is the first installment in a historical suspense series featuring San Francisco’s policeman Randall Blackburn and a 12 year old orphan named Shane Nightingale, that together match minds to catch a serial killer terrorizing the town during the heyday era of the city’s infamous shady section called the Barbary Coast.
While the city shivers and shakes during it’s worst earthquake in 1906, adopted Sha More...
Anthony Flacco’s The Last Nightingale is the first installment in a historical suspense series featuring San Francisco’s policeman Randall Blackburn and a 12 year old orphan named Shane Nightingale, that together match minds to catch a serial killer terrorizing the town during the heyday era of the city’s infamous shady section called the Barbary Coast.
While the city shivers and shakes during it’s worst earthquake in 1906, adopted Sha More...
Dec 10, 2009
Viccy
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Sergeant Randall Blackburn is not a happy policeman. Since he is an honest cop, he has been stuck walking the Barbary Coast midnight beat for months now. A serial killer is working the streets there. Blackburn is walking back his police station when the Great Earthquake strikes San Francisco on April 18, 1906. Few descriptions of the San Francisco Quake can match the intensity and visceral power of Flacco’s words. In the aftermath of the quake and the subsequent fires that raged throughout San F
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Aug 04, 2008
Pancha
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Set in San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake and it's aftermath, the story follows Sergeant Blackburn as he tracks a serial killer through the Barbary Coast and the chaos of the ravaged city. It also stars Shane Nightingale, the only survivor of the killer's attack on his family. The premise is interesting, and of course I love reading about San Francisco history. But there is an emotional distance in the writing that prevents me from really enjoying this. When Blackburn is terrified in the e
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Apr 18, 2011
Djrmel
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What a sad waste of a great setting. Truly a waste, because post earthquake San Francisco all but disappears from the last third of the story when a new disaster is introduced - Black Plague. The book did make me curious enough to want to read more about the 1906 earthquake, maybe in a book that wasn't populated with comic book villains and Keystone style cops.
Sep 20, 2009
Geri
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Great mystery and fantastic history. Some shocking violence which is weird, but appropriate. Good relationships
Dec 19, 2011
Kristin
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I got about halfway through this and then lost interest. I've never been a fan of mysteries that have long sections from the point of view of the villain. It takes away the mystery and makes the book much less interesting.
Mar 25, 2011
Charlene
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The earthquake part was interesting but I guess I don't like reading about serial killers. And the language wasn't good.
May 07, 2011
Michael
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Outstanding historical fiction crime thriller, a genre that I usually don't enjoy. The story is engrossing, the killer deeply troubled, and the characters endearing. Not for the feint of heart.
Nov 03, 2008
Great read. Young boy helps police discover a murder during the great earthquake in 1906
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