false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175540175m/525677.jpg 525677 3 From the author of <i>Come Closer</i> comes the most highly acclaimed-and unusual-thriller of the year. Josephine, a former addict, is offered a thousand dollars to find a suburban couple's missing daughter. But the search will take her into the dark underbelly of New York she thought she'd escaped-and a web of deceit that threatens to destroy her. 1529679 2006 Dope total:250|5:19|4:87|3:96|2:41|1:7| 250 820 364 74 4 2 false false Wed Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 11:39:29 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 04 08:12:10 -0800 2008 A reformed "junkie" goes off the grift for a legit job of finding a missing girl and is thrown into a world (Hell's Kitchen 1950s) she had been trying to avoid in order to stay clean. I had trouble feeling very sympathetic to her situation until the ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Mar 05 14:02:08 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 14:02:41 -0800 2009 3 1 false false Sun Dec 30 07:53:31 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 18 11:51:01 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 25 06:00:28 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 29 11:28:39 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 11:29:23 -0800 2008
Josephine "Joe" Flannigan is just the girl next door--if you happen to live in Hell's Kitchen, that is. Joe grew up there under the not-so-wa...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 20:21:32 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 06:11:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 10 14:31:46 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 14:34:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 09:19:38 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 09:20:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 06:29:22 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 11:19:48 -0700 2009 the dope in the title refers to drugs and also to the fact that the heroine is made to be a dope or a patsy . she thinks she is street wise but has a vestige of humanity left which proves to be her undoing .
i read this in a couple of sitting...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Aug 26 09:38:24 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 09:39:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 20:57:37 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 21:21:34 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Sep 17 09:38:35 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 20 11:08:31 -0700 2007 Come Closer, Sara Gran puts an unusual spin on the horror genre, transcending the usual demon possession story with beautifully efficient sentences, complex characters, and a dash of feminist criticism. The result, described by one critic as a cross between Rosemary's Baby and...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 02:59:52 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 17:25:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 31 05:07:26 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 24 07:35:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jan 28 14:30:21 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 14:32:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 18:31:22 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 16:19:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Dec 17 09:43:42 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 09:45:48 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Apr 17 08:41:45 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 08:45:47 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat May 10 18:27:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 10 18:27:00 -0700 2008 ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 06:26:38 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 06:29:04 -0700 2009 There were a few plot twists and turns but not enough to make it an interesting read.
Not a great ending either]]> 2 0 false false Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 10:30:36 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 07:51:53 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=525677