- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Berkley Pub Group (Mm); Reprint edition (Feb 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0425156737
- ISBN-13: 978-0425156735
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,290,704 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Format:Paperback
I read two of Jane Waterhouse's more recent books first and I was really looking forward to delving into this one. It started out tremendously and I could barely put it down, but then things seemed to unravel. The guilt or innocence of the Bird man was fascinating, but that plot came to an unfulfilling end. And the body parts in the sculptures, while resolved, still left the reader with tons of questions. I felt like the book could have been 100 pages longer to allow the plots to really develop and draw to a satisfying conclusion. I loved the attraction between Dane and Garner, but even that relationship never really developed. Overall, a good book to borrow from the library, not one I'd necessarily want to make part of my own book collection.
Format:Paperback
I really enjoyed the sophisticated pen and hope to see more. Wonderful development -- of each story. Waterhouse created Garner Quinn, a character to whom anyone with an ounce of critical marrow could relate. Garner Quinn could easily live on in subsequent stories -- which could be the flaw with this one.
Waterhouse, in her enthusiasm to create a brilliant mystery, actually created two. If it had worked, the brilliance would have been in the glue that held them together. Instead, without any connection whatsoever, other than Quinn's frantic pace of overlapping one crime with another, all that is left is a quick summary, short explanation of why any of it happened at all.
I think that with more indepth development of a single plot, further development of her household relationships and the true brilliance of her penmanship, Waterhouse will become one of the best in this genre.
Waterhouse, in her enthusiasm to create a brilliant mystery, actually created two. If it had worked, the brilliance would have been in the glue that held them together. Instead, without any connection whatsoever, other than Quinn's frantic pace of overlapping one crime with another, all that is left is a quick summary, short explanation of why any of it happened at all.
I think that with more indepth development of a single plot, further development of her household relationships and the true brilliance of her penmanship, Waterhouse will become one of the best in this genre.
Format:Paperback
Believe it or not, the "statue mystery" is never
completely resolved. The climax of the novel concerns a completely different thread. Despite being portrayed as a strong independent character, the heroine is really a passive victum throughout the text. My guess is that the author had outlines for two different mysteries and threw them together to meet a publishing deadline. Also
as a Jersey Shore native, I'd like to remind Ms. Waterhouse that there are no beach-front homes in
Spring Lake.
completely resolved. The climax of the novel concerns a completely different thread. Despite being portrayed as a strong independent character, the heroine is really a passive victum throughout the text. My guess is that the author had outlines for two different mysteries and threw them together to meet a publishing deadline. Also
as a Jersey Shore native, I'd like to remind Ms. Waterhouse that there are no beach-front homes in
Spring Lake.
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