Annie O'Neill has it all: a cosy Manhattan apartment, a beautiful bookshop and a network of supportive friends. But at the heart of her life is a hole - a place vacated by her father when he died in her childhood. So when a mysterious man named Forrester enters the shop and claims to be her father's oldest friend she jumps at the chance to find out more of her own past. But Forrester's not being free with the answers she needs. He's much more interested in telling her a story about a ruthless ganglord and a fifty-year-old betrayal. A betrayal that she will realise far too slowly, has something very much to do with her...
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By isisjem
Format:Paperback
This is the second R J Ellory book I've read. I just couldn't put it down. In fact I stayed up so late to read it I was nearly falling asleep at my desk the next day. R J Ellory creates such credible and real characters I feel that I know them and they stay with me long after I've finished reading. Whilst this isn't a conventional whodunnit it does bear many elements of a crime/mystery novel. I also love how he creates an impression of America in a certain era. He does this largely by reminding the reader what was going on historically at the time the more personal elements of the story were playing out. There is some quite graphic violence in this book and the subject matter does not always make easy reading. R J Ellory has this knack of making you 'like' the characters he creates even when you don't like how they behave. I thought Annie was a credible, likeable and believable character and Forrester enigmatic with a hint of menace that made me want to find out more about the reason for him leaving parts of a manuscript with Annie. A Manuscript which tells a story spanning the horrors of Auschwitz to America in the 1960's, and forms the backbone of this story.
If you haven't read any R J Ellory, but like the sort of thriller that you are still thinking about weeks after you've read it then I can't recommend this enough.
If you haven't read any R J Ellory, but like the sort of thriller that you are still thinking about weeks after you've read it then I can't recommend this enough.
25 of 29 people found the following review helpful
By J. Bird
Format: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.
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.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
By Big Bertha
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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.
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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5.0 out of 5 stars
What a fabulous writer is R.J.Ellory. This was just another of his...
I just loved the story.
I would recommend this book to anyone who loves to just keep turning pages to follow the twists and turns contained there
I would recommend this book to anyone who loves to just keep turning pages to follow the twists and turns contained there
Published 17 days ago by John Brown
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Wow Wow Wow!!
I didn't think I would enjoy this book as much as I did. What an unusual storyline and maybe I am a bit slow, but I didn't guess the ending until near the very end of the book. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Shoozy
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ghostheart
My favourite book by my favourite author, a great read,thoroughly recomend his work, am excitedly awaiting his new novel published Juneish this year, ' The Devil and the River'
Published 2 months ago by Patricia Fletcher
2.0 out of 5 stars
Drab.
I do not understand the high praise this book has received. It is essentially a tale of revenge, with a dollup of sex thrown in to give the story some credence and to justify the... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Lexicon
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Will not buy R J Ellory Again
Having just found out about R J Ellory writing his own positive reviews about his books whilst giving negative reviews about his rivals I must say I feel conned by the man. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Cheryl Sussex
3.0 out of 5 stars
Well written unusual story
I enjoyed the book although I did find the ending a little predictable and some of the characterisations not completely believable.
Published 4 months ago by Denise Cross
5.0 out of 5 stars
Superb
Mr Ellory can just write. I mean he really can write. Up there with Steinbeck in my humble opinion. His books are very easy to read but are not always easy reading. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Suenos6
4.0 out of 5 stars
Quietly haunting you
This is the story of Annie, a thirty year old that lives a rather quiet and obviously lonely life in New York. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Joanne D'Arcy
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What a story. One of the most gripping books I have read for a long time. Read more
What a story. One of the most gripping books I have read for a long time. Read more
Published 13 months ago by D. Norman
2.0 out of 5 stars
Predictable (spoiler alert!!)
Yes, Ghostheart is well-constructed and pacy but **SPOILER ALERT ** the ultimate denouement was utterly predictable from earlier than half-way through; so much so that I was... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Lola
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