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• ISBN13: 9780143113492
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Tana French | | Paperback:
| 464 pages | | Publisher:
| Penguin (Non-Classics) | | Publication Date:
| May 27, 2008 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0143113496 | | Package Length:
| 8.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.95 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 429 reviews |
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 Irish Murder Mystery -- one of the best mysteries I've read!Mar 14, 2010
Brilliant murder mystery! Very suspenseful. Plus, I really didn't know what was going to happen from one scene to the next. One of the best I've ever read. Set in Ireland, contemporary times. The characters and plot were very interesting. The writing excellent. I can't wait to read French's next one. What's not to like? Highly recommended.
 Despite the ending, I STILL recommend this book!Mar 08, 2010
Tana French won the Edgar Award with this novel and it certainly kept me riveted to a book for a couple of days. She is a master of characterization and dialog, without a doubt.
Dublin detectives Rob Ryan and Cassie Maddox leaped off the page, so vivid were their portrayals as they work to solve a modern day mystery that has deep ties to Detective Ryan's past.
Here's the kicker: the ending sucked. Yep, it's true. The plot had loose ends all over the place and the reader is left with more questions than answers (and I don't think this was deliberate on the author's part, but who knows for sure?).
But I am STILL RECOMMENDING that you read this book for the pure joy of reading the work of a writer who is so enormously talented.
Despite the ending, I wouldn't have missed this book for the world.
 Avid Reader - DisappointedMar 05, 2010
Reading the excerpt for this book I was pulled in right away. I love a great mystery, but yet there was none.
I thought that the murder of the 12 yr. old girl was going to intertwine with what happened to Rob 20 yrs. ago.
It didn't. It's OK that the author didn't clear up the mystery surrounding what happened to Rob and his friends years ago, but really we didn't even get a good idea of what COULD have happened.
The playful banter between Rob and Cassie was boring as well and she was definitely the better cop.
I saw the friendship in the authors writing but again, so what? He had a friend but ruined that relationship and they didn's share any of the supposed "mystery" of the story together.
I continued to keep reading praying that the book would get better and something, anything would actually happen! I have never been so unhappy with a book in my life. I've had a few that didn't live up to expectations, but this book just didn't have anything to keep me interested. There was absolutely no purpose to this book - not sure why the author wrote it or why I tortured myself to continue reading until the end.
Entertaining and Beautifully WrittenMar 04, 2010
I have to agree with the other reviewers - those who gave 1-star and those who gave 5-stars. Yes, the ending does not neatly tie everything up...but overall I found this book to be hugely entertaining and difficult to put down. It had been a few months since I'd found a book I could sink my teeth into; a book where you end up staying up waaaay too late because you keep telling yourself "just one more chapter." A stranger at Costco recommended it to me ("thank you!"), and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Some say that the joy is in "the journey" and not in "the destination." Though I found the destination to be a bit disappointing, I enjoyed this author's writing style and found myself rereading some sentences to soak them in. Thus, it was an enjoyable journey. I must also say that I found the subplot of the 1984 case to be eerie and scintillating and it quickly got my attention.
Maybe we're so Hollywood-ized in America that we feel we've been betrayed if things aren't tied up perfectly in the end. I wonder if non-American readers feel the same way about the ending...
Cold Case RevisitedMar 04, 2010
I stumbled upon this book when reading write-ups of suggested readings. I had not heard of this book or author, but was intrigued by the description of the boy found in the woods, as described by the opening of the book. I found that the narrative style French used, from the perspective of the detective, drew me into the story quickly. I think French did a fine job of describing Detective Ryan's struggle with his horrific memories and the impact these events had on his life. I do agree that some of the pieces didn't fit together as tightly as they (maybe) should have, but I couldn't wait to finish this book. OK, sometimes I even enjoy some of the simpler plots, but there is depth here in the main characters. Cassie Maddox was a great character and I am pleased to see that French has carried on with Cassie in her next book. Just as the love (unrequited)relationship with Cassie resulted in an elusive loss for Ryan, so went the ending of the story. I, too, was craving to know the true events if that summer morning twenty years earlier, but am more struck by the ending the author chose. Wouldn't it be nice if life's events were always clearly resolved and easily explained?
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