- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Orion (19 Feb 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0752860593
- ISBN-13: 978-0752860596
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.6 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 541,138 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A compelling drama.' (WESTERN MAIL MAGAZINE )
'This compelling novel, with its shock denouement, is both beautifully written and skilfully crafted and confirms Ellory as one of crime fiction's new stars.' (Susanna Yager SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )
'Ellory's second book shows he is a writer to watch ... Ellory's characters are fresh, his prose mature ... an original and riveting book.' (CRIME TIME )
'This compelling novel, with its shock denouement, is both beautifully written and skilfully crafted and confirms Ellory as one of crime fiction's new stars.' (Susanna Yager SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )
'Ellory's second book shows he is a writer to watch ... Ellory's characters are fresh, his prose mature ... an original and riveting book.' (CRIME TIME )
Susanna Yager, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'This compelling novel, with its shock denouement, is both beautifully written and skilfully crafted and confirms Ellory as one of crime fiction's new stars.'
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The sound from the street was bold, bellying up against the breeze like a bright colored streamer, and from the sidewalk vents the smoke and steam crawled like tired ghosts from the subway below. Read the first page
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Ghost Heart - RJ Ellory,
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This review is from: Ghostheart (Paperback)
Each new RJ Ellory novel provides a unique plot from a different and new perspective, Ghost Heart is no exception. It grips and excites as the plot unravels and more often than not, is a surprise when you arrive. Credible characters with whom we become familiar and even intimate. RJ Ellory writes atmospheric thrillers. He is a wordsmith who understands plot, nuance and direction. This is an exceptional book although not his best in my opinion. If you like James Lee Burke and John Connolly you will love RJ Ellory.
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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Compelling, addictive and beautifully written,
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This review is from: Ghostheart (Paperback)
I took this novel on holiday and ended up walking around the apartment with it, bumping into furniture. I put it down to sleep and to eat, and that's about it. I became horribly unsociable until I'd finished it. I then couldn't, in a home full of books, find one other I wanted to read. Because although I'd closed Ghostheart, the story and the characters hadn't left me.
Roger Ellory's talent in creating real humans, with all their loves, fears, complexities, cruelties and dark corners, is one of the joys of reading his work. I don't know who I'm going to meet next, and I start each one of his novels curious to get to know new people. I may loathe them, they may make me shudder, or I may even, as with this one, fall in love with them. I always remember them. Jack Sullivan, Annie's irascible, booze-soaked but golden-hearted neighbour who adores her, is a wonderful creation. I found the character of Annie quite entrancing, I could identify with her loneliness and her searching, and I wanted her to find who she was looking for. Will it be the seductive but elusive David Quinn? There are some teeth-rattling horrors in Ghostheart, which haven't left me either, starting at Auschwitz and moving forward into the brutal gangland world of America in the 50s and 60s. All of it has the raw stench of authenticity which made it both difficult, and compulsive, to read. I had to know what happened. It all works beautifully together, and I loved it.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Terrific read !,
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Loved it! This is the first book I've read by this author and from start to finish I was enthralled.
The main book is set in the present with another storyline running alongside spanning the years from Auschwitz to America in the sixties. The past and the present are both equally gripping. A book full of vengence and betrayal - if you haven't read it yet, believe me it's worth reading! I've already bought another two novels by this author and now have the tough choice of which to read first.
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