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Oct 27, 2011
Suzyn
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I realize I'm in the "just finished the book" high on this one but I really think this is one of the best crime novels I've ever read. Peter Abrahams has an amazing ear for dialogue, and an ability to make immensely fucked up characters' thoughts seems immensely real. Also, when I was eighty percent of the way through the book, I wasn't entirely sure how it would end and that just doesn't happen. The audiobook is read by a lady named Sharon Williams and she does a fantastic job. If
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Jan 01, 2012
Corri
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(Read by Sharon Williams)
For a thriller, I didn't find this book too exciting - could've been affected by the abridgement. It did give an interesting take on Francie's husband Roger who wants to kill her for cheating on him with Ned. I also thought the twists involving Ned's wife were interesting. Roger is trying to commit the perfect crime and sometimes I found myself wanting him to succeed!
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For a thriller, I didn't find this book too exciting - could've been affected by the abridgement. It did give an interesting take on Francie's husband Roger who wants to kill her for cheating on him with Ned. I also thought the twists involving Ned's wife were interesting. Roger is trying to commit the perfect crime and sometimes I found myself wanting him to succeed!
Quote: The expression in Ned's eyes changed. Dark eyes Francie had learned More...
Sep 06, 2011
Stephen King recommended author and book. He says: “Peter Abrahams is my favorite American suspense novelist.”
In his book On Writing, published 2000, King says on pages 285-286: "These are the best books I've read over the last three or four years, the period during which I wrote The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Pop-up Book, Hearts in Atlantis, On Writing, and the as-yet-unpublished From a Buick 8. In some way or other, I suspect each book in the list had an influence on the bo More...
In his book On Writing, published 2000, King says on pages 285-286: "These are the best books I've read over the last three or four years, the period during which I wrote The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Pop-up Book, Hearts in Atlantis, On Writing, and the as-yet-unpublished From a Buick 8. In some way or other, I suspect each book in the list had an influence on the bo More...
Oct 26, 2008
Ron
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I choose this of Peter's books to review because I read it last and the plot is more familiar to me. Aside from it being a good thriller, with a compelling story--a true page-turner--it also has certain qualities that raise it up above a pure genre effort. There are character portraits, in which Mr. Abrahams illustrates personalities from the inside: we get to see the mind and thought process of a killer with little social skills and even less understanding of what's really going on around him-
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Feb 24, 2011
Dilsa
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There is street smart and there is the high IQ smart. Roger has such a high IQ that he thinks he is the perfect man to commit the perfect murder by using who he thinks is a predictable killer to do his dirty work. Roger is angry that someone as smart as he is has a wife that cheats and had an idiot boss who fired him. He sets out on this quest making all the right moves, solving all the puzzles, putting everything in its right place at the right time, but his high IQ doesn't account for his k
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Jul 25, 2011
Paul
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Let's pay back hockey players and smooth sounding radio DJ's. A demented criminal enters the plot as an unfaithful wife tries to hide her infidelity from a husband who is painted as evil and undeserving--hence, sympathy for the adulterer.
Great story well told, with that tawdry, lurid element Abrahams is expert at utilizing to draw the reader in.
Great story well told, with that tawdry, lurid element Abrahams is expert at utilizing to draw the reader in.
May 16, 2011
Mark
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Please don't mistake my review as an objective analysis of Peter Abrahams as a writer. This type of thriller really isn't my cup of tea, but make no mistake about one thing: Mr. Abrahams is a superior prose stylist, acute psychologist, and consummate storyteller, and I will probably try other of his books.
Jun 16, 2010
GP
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It wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either. It's one of those books you read to kill time... The killer was revealed before he before he even started plotting. The only question was whether he'd be caught.
Nov 28, 2009
Nicole
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Pure pulp. No sympathetic characters to be found. No believable characters even, just bad caricatures. I ought to know it's a bad sign when it's liked by Stephen King, but it's a really bad sign when the author seems to hate all of his characters from the start.
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Oct 12, 2009
Michelle
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good mystry with unpredicted twists that saw the 6 degrees of seperation between characters shrink as the story unfolded. I'd read more by thos author
Nov 26, 2011
Mary Beth
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This was good but not great. A fun diversion but not too many surprises. I saw most of the twists a mile away.
Jul 13, 2010
Pam
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I was a little disappointed with this book. I think I was expecting too much.
Nov 24, 2007
J.R.
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Not a perfect mystery but interesting characters, a plot that twists and turns--all in all, a thriller that will keep you turning the pages.
Mar 07, 2010
Carey
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A page-turning story of betrayal, the ever changing smallness of our world, and Karma - what goes around, certainly comes around.
Nov 01, 2010
Noah
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Yes, it's a genre book. A Thriller, no less. But it's that good. Really.
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