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Dead Time (Alan Gregory #16)
After the shocking developments in Dry Ice, Colorado psychologist Alan Gregory is struggling to deal with his newly adopted son and repair his shaky, though generally improving, marriage. But then Alan’s ex-wife, Merideth, reappears, seeking help she feels only Alan can give. Suddenly Alan is pulled into a mystery that reaches back years to a camping trip at the Grand Cany...more
Hardcover, 397 pages
Published
March 4th 2008
by Dutton Adult
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The latest in Stephen White’s Alan Gregory series of novels continues his recent trend of shifting between multirple perspectives among the various protagonists, always settling and centering on Boulder pysychologist Gregory.
“Dead Time” weaves together three perspectives as it slowly unravels the mystery of what happened years before when some friends camped out on the floor of the Grand Canyon. A woman disappeared under strange circumstances and has never been found since. What happened to her...more
“Dead Time” weaves together three perspectives as it slowly unravels the mystery of what happened years before when some friends camped out on the floor of the Grand Canyon. A woman disappeared under strange circumstances and has never been found since. What happened to her...more
Stephen White continues to be my favorite Colorado author.
I love how White continues with the storyline, but deviates from the standard series formulas by presenting each new novel in ever more creative style. His character development is outstanding.
In the beginning of Dead Time his protagonist, Alan Gregory, has added a new son to his family and his wife travels to the Netherlands to locate a daughter she gave up for adoption.
Dead Time weaves between New York, Boulder and LA. We meet his ex-w...more
I love how White continues with the storyline, but deviates from the standard series formulas by presenting each new novel in ever more creative style. His character development is outstanding.
In the beginning of Dead Time his protagonist, Alan Gregory, has added a new son to his family and his wife travels to the Netherlands to locate a daughter she gave up for adoption.
Dead Time weaves between New York, Boulder and LA. We meet his ex-w...more
#16 in the Alan Gregory series. I wasn't thrilled with the reappearance of ex-wife Meredith, I felt she had worn out her welcome tears ago. When she wants Alan to track down her surrogate and that leads to an extended trip down memory lane to a Grand Canyon trip taken by the surrogate when Meredith's fiance Eric and the surrogate were in college together. Confused yet? Do you care about these people?
White, however, is a skillful author, and manages to pull an average novel out of this.
Alan Grego...more
White, however, is a skillful author, and manages to pull an average novel out of this.
Alan Grego...more
I believe I've missed a book. Or something. I was very confused about where this picks up the timeline of Dr. Gregory's life.
However, this books finds both the doctor and his cop friend not working due to emotional issues. Sam is on administrative leave--or something--from the police force. Alan is coping with the death of an old and very close friend, the 'inheritance' of her son and her pushy brother, and a startling distance in his relationship with his wife. In the midst of all this, his ex...more
However, this books finds both the doctor and his cop friend not working due to emotional issues. Sam is on administrative leave--or something--from the police force. Alan is coping with the death of an old and very close friend, the 'inheritance' of her son and her pushy brother, and a startling distance in his relationship with his wife. In the midst of all this, his ex...more
I first read this author in what I expect may be his best work. The result may be an unfairly high set bar. I didn't really like the second book of his that I read. This was the third. This was to be the decider as to whether I continue reading on. I've decided I will.
This book wasn't nearly as good as Kill Me. It wasn't nearly as bad as the second of his books I've read. It had potential. It was a fast read. It was compelling. It's well written for the most part. In fact I really liked this bo...more
This book wasn't nearly as good as Kill Me. It wasn't nearly as bad as the second of his books I've read. It had potential. It was a fast read. It was compelling. It's well written for the most part. In fact I really liked this bo...more
I am a great fan of this series. Although the main character is Dr Alan Gregory, the stories do not always revolve around him nor are they always written in the same voice or format. This time, Dr Gregory is drawn into the life of his ex wife and her fiancée. He is also dealing with problems in his marriage and adjusting to family changes. Most enjoyable.
A very fast read - I read it in one day while recovering from the flu, which is not exactly when my brain is working great. The book is written from the points of view of two people who are divorced from each other. Some authors are very good at having writing from the point of view of different characters, others are not. I think Stephen White needs a bit more practice writing from a female point of view. HIs Meridith sounds like a character imagined by a man who doesn't know women well; she so...more
I am still sorting out how I feel about the style of this book. I liked the change in narrator, with the different perspectives that it allowed the story to tell, and I think the writing is good (especially for the genre)--I wasn't crazy about the linkage of a current case to the past, because in the end it seemed like a big leap for this to have been connected the way it was. The part of the story that I liked from a socio-cultural standpoint was the story of the illegal immigrant and the situa...more
Another good book by Stephen White with excellent writing, interesting plot, action-filled conclusions. I noticed how much the main characters liked children and tried to be good parents. I think they also value marriage, although White is realistic about the stresses and ups and downs that occur in a marriage. This book, as a counter thread to the mystery, is dealing with a low time in Dr. Gregory's marriage and his admission that "I . . . um . . . have made some mistakes. I've been distant. An...more
I love Stephen White. I think he's a great writer, has an interesting continuing character, and I love the fact that he's a local author (Denver, CO). His continuing character, Alan Gregory, is a clinical psychologist who seems to always find himself in a pickle. It's not usually a funny pickle like Stephanie Plum in Janet Evanovitch's series (which I also love), but a pickle nonetheless. His side characters are very strong, including Sam Purdy, one of my favorite side characters in any book. Sa...more
I like the character Dr Alan Gregory enough that I may read the other books about him, hopefully in order now. I just grabbed this book off my shelf and read it not aware this isn't the first book with Alan Gregory in it. I can't make a comparison about previous books with him but I can say I like this book well enough to try them out.
Lisa is a woman chosen to be a surrogate mother for Alan's ex-wife, Meredith. When she goes missing, Meredith seeks Alan's help. A Grand Canyon trip from the past...more
Lisa is a woman chosen to be a surrogate mother for Alan's ex-wife, Meredith. When she goes missing, Meredith seeks Alan's help. A Grand Canyon trip from the past...more
Another Stephen White psycho-thriller that takes place in LA and NYC (White is venturing away from Boulder like he did with "The Seige" at Yale). I realize I missed his middle books and don't know the whole back story of Dr. Alan Gregory's and Sam Purdy's police matter in Frederick, Colorado (where my sister lives--that's why I like the setting of these novels close to home) and Gregory's marital issues that are referred to in "Dead Time". Still doesn't spoil his writing or his storytelling for...more
I debated between 3 and 4 stars for this one. It's a solid book. The characters are very good and the pace is solid and plot is interesting. I think some people might find it a high 4 star kind of book. For me there were two problems. One was that the book is written from multiple points of view, and that didn't work well for me. The best part of the book was a long stretch from one POV. The second thing might not bother most people, but the feelings of the characters seemed forced. They seemed...more
I went back and forth on the rating for this one. It was hard to put down, and I liked the three different view-points (two 1st person, 1 third person) that he alternated between. That is new for him, and a bit of a surprise, but it worked for me. Even though I enjoyed the twists and turns of the story, it often made me sad, and a time or two, felt a bit too honest. Stephen White has a definite talent for creating very real characters -- honorable and fallible simultaneously. This was a great bo...more
An exceptionally exciting story by Stephen White of his main character Alan Gregory, a psychotherapist from Denver Co. There are plots and secondary plots comingled in this novel with all developing and more complex at the same time. It keeps the reader involved in the story as we attempt to solve the crimes and events developing throughout. There are old murders, current murders, adopted children, and marital problems. A must read for all mystery lovers and the psychothriller addicts. You'll b...more
This was a wild ride from start to finish. Alan is having a rough time. His best friend is dead, leaving him with guardianship of her son, a fact that her brother is unhappy about. His wife is taking their daughter to Holland to try to locate the daughter she gave up for adoption. And then his ex-wife calls. She and her fiance are using a surrogate and the surrogage is missing. Can Alan help? In a case that shows just how small a world it really is, there are many interconnected people in this s...more
PROTAGONIST: Alan Gregory
SETTING: Boulder, Colorado; New York
SERIES: #16 of 16
RATING: 3.75
To say that Dr. Alan Gregory's world is in a state of upheaval is an understatement. Still reeling from the death of his close friend and neighbor, Adrienne, he finds himself facing many emotional demands. Alan's ex-wife, Merideth, attends the memorial service for Adrienne. Although she was Adrienne's friend, she has an ulterior motive for being there. She and her fiancé have been working with a young woman...more
SETTING: Boulder, Colorado; New York
SERIES: #16 of 16
RATING: 3.75
To say that Dr. Alan Gregory's world is in a state of upheaval is an understatement. Still reeling from the death of his close friend and neighbor, Adrienne, he finds himself facing many emotional demands. Alan's ex-wife, Merideth, attends the memorial service for Adrienne. Although she was Adrienne's friend, she has an ulterior motive for being there. She and her fiancé have been working with a young woman...more
Two stars indicates I that think this book was OK. The story thankfully picks up in the last quarter of the book but for the most part I really didn't enjoy this book at all. The book is about the disappearance of a girl in the Grand Canyon several years earlier and how it somehow ties to a missing surrogate mother in present day. The narration bounces back and forth between Alan Gregory (White's usual central character) and his ex-wife, Meredith, to give different views of the same story. Unfor...more
Apr 05, 2008
Stephanie
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
mystery lovers, esp people who like Grafton
Shelves:
one-night-stands
I love Stephen White. Last week, listening to an interview with Jonathan Kellerman, the uniqueness of a series with a protagonist who was a shrink, written by a shrink, was emphasized. I was in the car yelling at the radio "what about Stephen White?" and I realize that despite some success, his works are overlooked WAY too much.
I love his books for lines like these:
(In musing on the nature of a dream and what he tells his patients about the nature of dreams): "Dreams are poetry about your life,...more
I love his books for lines like these:
(In musing on the nature of a dream and what he tells his patients about the nature of dreams): "Dreams are poetry about your life,...more
Received this at Christmas from my nephew Adam and his wife - started reading it on the plane flight home. Finished it the next day. A fun, quick read, but it's the first one of White's I've read, and it was a later book in the series. Sometimes that means I've missed something from his earlier books. I have another one to read and may try to find the first one. The protagonist is a psychologist who has a cop friend - somewhat similar in style to Jonathan Kellerman's books.
Katrin
Katrin
This is a way better Alan Gregory book than the huge previous disappointment. It just feels more authentic to the characters, and Gregory's not nearly so whiny. In the last book, you really wanted him to get the snot knocked out of him. This one gets him back on track. But I think White needs to be careful to not veer too far away from therapy and those interesting dilemmas arise from those situations. And not to stray too far from Boulder.
A solid entry in the series. Much of the action takes place in NYC and SoCal rather than the usual Boulder. The after effects of chance meeting in Grand Canyon drives the plot, which our hero, Alan Gregory, manages to find himself in the midst of. While I enjoyed the book, the manner in which they extricate themselves from their seeming doom is, while creative, a little bit hard to imagine. Still, a fun read.
I think I have read almost all of the Alan Gregory stories by this point. There might be a few floating around that I've missed, but by and large I've gone through all of them. I would have actually given this one 3.5 stars but there's no way to do that on Good Reads, is there? I enjoyed it, but I found I didn't really care that much about most of the characters. Alan's ex-wife is a particularly unpleasant, admittedly self-absorbed sort. I did like the "her ex" "his ex" preface to the chapters....more
I like the way Stephen White changes the focus of his books. One time it may be his problem, another time it may be a patient, friend, ex-wife, etc.
There is a huge cast of, sometimes remotely, interconnected characters who enter into the action or become the center of the action. When I pick up one of White's books, I never know who is involved and where they might be taking me!
There is a huge cast of, sometimes remotely, interconnected characters who enter into the action or become the center of the action. When I pick up one of White's books, I never know who is involved and where they might be taking me!
I enjoyed this book because I of it's easy read and the fact that I like Stephen White's books because they are usually set in Boulder, CO. However, this particular book revolves around the Grand Canyon and LA...so not as much about Boulder. I also felt that the characters were weaker and a bit boring. So, enjoyable, but definitely not my fav S.W. book.
Dr. Gregory has been asked by his ex-wife to investigate the disappearance of a woman who, as a surrogate, is carring her child. The investigation takes him to California in search of answers relating to an long past hiking trip to the Grand Canyon and a missing woman on that trip. I liked the references to the concept of "dead time". Some of them had to do with a mechanism a therapist uses to solicite answers from those unwilling to talk. The therapist asks a question but then sits and allows "...more
i really like stephen white and this whole series and i have read most of them. this was a really good one - compelling. i read it fast because i was so interested in what would happen next. there was a sort of story inside a story, past and present, along with the usual chronology of the lives of the main characters and their personal relationships. good stuff!
This book was a little confusing at first, switching first-person narrators and times from past to present, but when the reader becomes accustomed to it, the book provides a suspenseful read, ranging in setting from Boulder to New York City to Los Angeles to the Grand Canyon and even a little bit in the Netherlands. Interesting read.
The previous two books in the series were great, but this book was difficult to get through. Less than 1/2 way through I set it aside to read a different book. Meredith's character was such a big "B" and I disliked her very much.
Unlike his other books, this one was difficult to get through. But I did pick it back up again and after more than 1/2 way through it picked up and the story line improved.
Unlike his other books, this one was difficult to get through. But I did pick it back up again and after more than 1/2 way through it picked up and the story line improved.
In the psychological suspense section of mysteries...
I loved this! I can't believe I had never read him before. I was sucked in from the start, and am now working on an earlier book of White's. The "detective" is a psychologist living and practicing in Denver (a city I really like and have actually been to before). Give a try!
I loved this! I can't believe I had never read him before. I was sucked in from the start, and am now working on an earlier book of White's. The "detective" is a psychologist living and practicing in Denver (a city I really like and have actually been to before). Give a try!
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Stephen White is the author of the New York Times bestselling Alan Gregory novels. In his books, he draws upon over fifteen years of clinical practice as a psychologist to create intriguing plots and complex, believable characters.
Born on Long Island, White grew up in New Y...more
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Stephen White is the author of the New York Times bestselling Alan Gregory novels. In his books, he draws upon over fifteen years of clinical practice as a psychologist to create intriguing plots and complex, believable characters.
Born on Long Island, White grew up in New Y...more
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