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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, my lord, that's several hours of my life I'll never get back.  <br/>Boyne is a published author with several (4 +-) books published and a couple of nominations for awards (none won, I hasten to say), so obviously there ARE people out there who appreciate his writing.  I'm NOT a published author...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20883305">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Dr. Hawley Crippen murdered his wife Belle in 1910; he and his mistress escaped England for Canada via ocean liner hoping to start a new life. Boyne uses factual info on the case to create a very fine novel which recalls Hawley's crime and the chase to catch him before he can disappear into Canada. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15235418">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;July 1910: A gruesome discovery has been made at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden.<br/><br/>Chief Inspector Walter Dew of Scotland Yard did not expect the house to be empty. Nor did he expect to find a body in the cellar. Buried under the flagstones are the remains of Cora Crippen, former music-hall singer and wife of Dr. Hawley Crippen. No one would have thought the quiet, unassuming Dr. Crippen capable of murder, yet the doctor and his mistress have disappeared from London, and now a full-scale hunt for them has begun.<br/><br/>Across the Channel in Antwerp, the S.S. <em>Montrose </em>has just set off on its two-week voyage to North America. Slipping in among the first-class passengers is a Mr. John Robinson, accompanied by his teenage son, Edmund. The pair may be hoping for a quiet, private voyage, but in the close confines of a luxury ocean liner, anonymity is rare. And with others aboard looking for romance, or violence, or escape from their past in Europe, it will take more than just luck for the Robinsons to survive the voyage unnoticed.<br/><br/>An accomplished, intricately plotted novel, <em>Crippen </em>brilliantly reimagines the amazing escape attempt of one of history's most notorious killers and marks the outstanding American debut of one of Ireland's best young novelists.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had never heard of Hawley Harvey Crippen before reading this book- he was a Doctor that was accused of killing his wife and then burying her body beneath the floorboards of their home. He then left England for Canada- along with his new girlfriend. He isn't as well known as other serial killers be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29420106">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;July 1910: A gruesome discovery has been made at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden.<br/><br/>Chief Inspector Walter Dew of Scotland Yard did not expect the house to be empty. Nor did he expect to find a body in the cellar. Buried under the flagstones are the remains of Cora Crippen, former music-hall singer and wife of Dr. Hawley Crippen. No one would have thought the quiet, unassuming Dr. Crippen capable of murder, yet the doctor and his mistress have disappeared from London, and now a full-scale hunt for them has begun.<br/><br/>Across the Channel in Antwerp, the S.S. <em>Montrose </em>has just set off on its two-week voyage to North America. Slipping in among the first-class passengers is a Mr. John Robinson, accompanied by his teenage son, Edmund. The pair may be hoping for a quiet, private voyage, but in the close confines of a luxury ocean liner, anonymity is rare. And with others aboard looking for romance, or violence, or escape from their past in Europe, it will take more than just luck for the Robinsons to survive the voyage unnoticed.<br/><br/>An accomplished, intricately plotted novel, <em>Crippen </em>brilliantly reimagines the amazing escape attempt of one of history's most notorious killers and marks the outstanding American debut of one of Ireland's best young novelists.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[John Boyne is a master at the twist ending, which I adore.  And his twists are not just to surprise and amuse - they are to make a point, which makes them even more interesting.  <br/><br/>I really enjoyed Crippen.  It was a book designed to make you think about things differently.  It wasn't as p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15595913">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A page-turner, with parallel story lines of passengers on a ship, and the evolution of one of England's most notorious murders. May be a good recommendation for Dickens fans.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting story based on true facts.  John Boyne is a good author.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[   This is a really good book to read if you have read Thunderstruck by Erik Larson.  John Boyne really gets into the characters more that Larson did.  It's cool to know more about Crippens childhood and how he learned to be a killer? ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book so much!  I loved the out-of-time sequence nature of the writing that made the story more suspensful.  The story was unfamiliar to me, but the book drew me in from page one and I was hooked.]]></body>
    
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