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Alex North (2) (1976–)

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Alex North (2) har definierats som författaren Steve Mosby.

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Mosby, Steve
Födelsedag
1976
Kön
male
Nationalitet
UK
Födelseort
Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
Bostadsorter
Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
Utbildning
Filosofie, Universiteit Leeds,
Agent
Sandra Sawicka (Marjacq (UK))

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The people who have reviewed this book here have given it rave reviews, and I am left wondering if we read the same book because I thought it was a mess, particularly at the end. At times, I thought it had potential and there were enough creepy spots that it kept me reading. The way the mystery was resolved, though, was so out of left field that it made me annoyed that I did finish the book.
 
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flourgirl49 | 43 andra recensioner | Mar 3, 2024 |
What a debut book! This was a BOTM selection and I'm so glad I chose it.

Tom and his 7 year old son, Jake, move to Featherbank to escape the sadness of their previous house after Tom's wife (Jake's mom) passes away suddenly. Several years earlier, a young boy was kidnapped in Featherbank by the Whisper Man, who whispers outside the home of the victim to lure them out. The Whisper Man is caught and in jail serving his sentence.

Shortly after Tom and Jake move there, another young boy is abducted. Did The Whisper Man have an accomplice or is this a copycat? Detectives Amanda Beck and Pete Willis are investigating the newest abduction but Pete is still haunted by an earlier case involving The Whisper Man because one of the boys' bodies has never been found.

And then Jake starts talking to an imaginary friend who tells him a poem about The Whisper Man and then Jake starts hearing whispering outside his window.....
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Cathie_Dyer | 116 andra recensioner | Feb 29, 2024 |
There are few thrills in this "thriller" and little suspense in this "suspense" novel. As for horror ... North is apparently so afraid of offending his readers that he uses only the vaguest terms to describe the "grisly" and "horrific" crimes. People died. There was blood. (One does not wish for sado-porn, but, it's really difficult to work up much emotional reaction to "grisly".)

Basically, the story follows a young man who narrowly escaped an attack by a serial killer when he was in his teens. Decades later, it seems he is being targeted again, and his sister is attempting to locate him and get him out of harm's way. Meanwhile, a team of investigators attempts to solve the murder of an elderly philosophy professor. How these two events intertwine forms the meat of the plot.

North tells (but doesn't show) us that the male-female detective team has a working relationship built on complementary strengths and a cynical back-and-forth kind of one-upmanship, but it never gets off the ground.

None of the Big Reveals in the book should come as a surprise to any reader who's been paying attention.

Readers seeking true horror and suspense with a quirky relationship between investigators would be much better off turning to any of the Lincoln Rhyme novels.
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LyndaInOregon | 21 andra recensioner | Feb 18, 2024 |
Katie is haunted by a crime from her past. More than a decade earlier, she left her teenage brother, Chris, at home alone for the afternoon so she could spend time with her boyfriend. When she comes back, the police were everywhere. To her utter horror she learns that a man had tried to cut off Chris’s face Yes, you read that right.... I had to go back and read it again. We move ahead several years and find that Katie is now happily married to the same boyfriend that she had left Chris to meet, and they have a young daughter, 5-year-old Siena. More horror awaits our Katie as she now discovers that a man has been horribly murdered in a nearby mansion, and that Chris, who has now disappeared, is the number-one suspect. Katie investigates and discovers secrets and brutality that stretches back for decades. (From the book) “Something terrible and incomprehensible” lies ahead, Katie realizes. “Something that had always been coming for you, but which you wouldn’t even see until it swerved in out of nowhere and changed your world forever.' Those lines alone and the fact that Alex North wrote it, would have been enough to make me want to read this book. I don't think I have ever given an Alex North book less than 4 stars, usually they get a full 5, but sorry...this one is only going to get 3. While it certainly was an absolutely intriguing story, there was just so much going on...too much and all at the same time...so many twists and turns...so many characters...it simply became confusing, and I had trouble keeping up and had to make several "back trips" through the chapters to clarify what I had just read. I really love how this author's brain works and I will certainly read his next offering.… (mer)
 
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Carol420 | 2 andra recensioner | Feb 8, 2024 |

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Verk
4
Medlemmar
3,169
Popularitet
#8,058
Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
186
ISBN
91
Språk
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