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Summary: Great cop/courtroom/serial killer book!
Review: This is the second book I have read by Margolin and he sure knows how to keep the reader interested throughout the entire book. The villian\s in this book were truly some of the baddest bad guys I have ever read in a suspense book. In fact, I think Darius could give Hannibal a run for his money in the torture and cruelty department.
The only reason I gave this book four stars as opposed to five was, unlike his last book I read, I had this one figured out sooner than I would have liked. Also I thought that the response in Hunter's Point was a bit unrealistic. If a serial killer has abducted and possibly killed three women in a city, a small one at that, you think the response from the public would be a strong one and the kidnappings would be in peoples thought for a while. Instead, in an early part of the book Page, a DA, calls Hunters Point and asks about the kidnappings that occured ten years before and the cop says he had only been on the force for five years and he THINKS he MIGHT have heard something about it.....I am pretty sure a cop on a small counties force would have heard about the biggest case that ever occured there.
Anyways, I was really streching to find those two instances because overall this book was a great read and I killed it in one sitting. I recommend this book highly.
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Summary: Best book I have read in months
Review: Another fantastic book by P. Margolin. It's packed with twists and turns which keep you up all night reading. This is one book you have to buy!
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Summary: DONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Review: The first question I asked myself is why did I wait so long to read Phillip Margolin. We've had this book in our home library for years, and I've finally gotten around to it! Wow...did I waste some time! This is an outstanding, well-written and terrifying book. Margolin has captured a lot of "personality" within most of the characters in this book: flawed, driven, ambitious, and of course with the killer, actual demonic qualities. The book is filled with many surprises, including some really nasty ones, too! I especially liked the characters of Alan Page and Betsy Tannenbaum---lawyers that seem to have a true sense of justice, fighting even their own demons. Betsy's failing marriage to Rick at first seems cliche, but as it evolves and it's final dramatic resolution, we can see how two people who love one another let jealousy destroy their lives. The character of Nancy Gordon is also a good one, and one has to wonder during the proceedings if she could perhaps somehow be involved in the killings. But at the heart of this book is Martin Darius and Peter Lake----these guys are truly villians in the worst sense of the word. No remorse, no compassion, evil to the core. A stunning book that certainly made me go in and put the rest of his books on my wish list; hopefully, my wife will have such a hard time deciding which ones to get me for Christmas, she'll get them all!
HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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Summary: lovetoread
Review: This was my first book by Phillip Margolin as well as my first mystery in the lawyer-as-detective genre. I thought the story was immediately interesting. The author introduced a lot of characters quickly but usually did so in a nonconfusing way while still writing the kind of details that make a fictional character come to life. I felt I knew a lot about them within a few paragraphs. Everything was written in the third person, and the action jumped around a lot; that made things move fast and it was interesting to read the experiences of several lawyers and detectives, a killer, a private detective etc. Characters were complex but in general I liked the good peple and didn't like the bad ones, and I like that. The story also moved around in time and this was done well.In the book, we learn that a serial killer had murdered in New York state ten years prior. The killer always left a black rose and a note -- "Gone, But Not Forgotten". (One disappointing aspect to the book is that this idiosyncracy is never explained.) A decade later, the same M.O. is being used in a series of crimes in Portland, Oregon. This story is about how the people in Portland are looking for the killer and how people from the earlier investigation become involved. This was an intelligent read and enjoyable. I will definitely read other books by this author.
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Summary: A page Burner
Review: I think in many ways Margolin is better than Grisham. This book is every bit as good as The Firm and Tourot's "Presumed Innocent." He does well in portraying characters. I also love the fact that this is set in Portland, Oregon.
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