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A stunning stand-alone novel from the national-bestselling author who "has raised the standard for psychological thrillers" (Chicago Tribune). Carol O'Connell's most recent Mallory novel, Find Me, was one of the most highly praised suspense novels of the year. "A terrific find: a tightly wrapped, expert combination of suspense, mystery and show-stopping character" (Janet Maslin of The New York Times); "yet another example of the spot-on talents of one of America's finest writers of mysteries' (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). In Bone by Bone, however, she may have written her most unforgettable novel yet. In the northern California town of Coventry, two teenage brothers go into the woods one day, but only one comes back. No one knows what happened to the younger brother, Josh, until twenty years later, when the older brother, Oren, now an ex-investigator for the Army CID, returns to Coventry for the first time in many years. His first morning back, he hears a thump on the front porch. Lying in front of the door is a human jawbone, the teeth still intact. And it is not the first such object, his father tells him. Other remains have been left there as well. Josh is coming home... bone by bone. Using all his investigative skills, Oren sets out to solve the mystery of his brother's murder, but Coventry is a town full of secrets and secret-keepers: the housekeeper with the fugitive past, the deputy with the old grudge, the reclusive ex-cop from L.A., the woman with the title of town monster, and, not least of all, Oren himself. But the greatest secret of all belonged to his brother, and it is only by unraveling it that Oren can begin to discover the truth that has haunted them all for twenty years. Written with the rich prose, resonant characters, and knife-edge suspense that have won the author so many fans, Bone by Bone is further proof that "O'Connell is one of the most poetic yet tough-minded writers of the genre" (San Francisco Chronicle).

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Putnam, 2008, US Hardcover – ISBN: 9780399155147

First Sentence: A batty old man of the cloth had once described the Hobbs boy as a joke of god’s: an archangel of the warrior cast and...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 08:24:50 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 08:27:18 -0800 2008 By Carol O’Connell
Penguin Group
340 Pages

When I selected Bone to Bone by Carol O’Connell, I was expecting a forensics-based mystery. But I’d just read The Family Bones by Kimberly Raiser and was surprised by its storyline; so I was not ”too” s...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 13:44:24 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 13:45:50 -0800 2008
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This is a gothic confection of a tale about two brothers who go into the woods...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 11:06:13 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 16:38:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 16:11:02 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 19:29:13 -0800 2009 Judas Child I've been a fan of Carol O'Connell's. The darkness at the heart of her mysteries is, for some reason, appealing.

Bone by Bone is lighter than Judas Child or Stone Angel, more akin to a book like Shell Game or Winter House . The characters are what make thi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 18:48:49 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 11:38:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 07:38:42 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 07:42:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 10 12:52:04 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 23:00:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 14:04:06 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 06:55:01 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 08:10:26 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 00:50:25 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 07 09:18:38 -0800 2009 Sat May 09 10:27:34 -0700 2009 1 This is a stellar stand-alone novel; an intricate, psychological who-done-it set in a small town, with a much wider scope than the small town setting would imply.
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