- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Headline; Reprint edition (12 July 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0755324080
- ISBN-13: 978-0755324088
- Product Dimensions: 3.8 x 17.8 x 10.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 613,852 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A high-octane drama seething with sexual tension and intrigue. A compelling story' -- Sunday Telegraph 'Menacing' -- Daily Mirror 'An ideal read for winter nights' -- Bella
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‘A high-octane drama seething with sexual tension and intrigue. A compelling story’
(Sunday Telegraph )'Menacing' (Daily Mirror )
'An ideal read for winter nights' (Bella )
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The lovely and prestigious Billings College, Cambridge, is near to end of term. Wind-up activities, unchanged but for the participants over the years have been planned again such as the usual spirited campus parties, May Ball and the annual college play. This year it is Shakespeare who receives another nod with the Billings drama group currently labouring of how best to bring "Othello" again to the stage. Actress Rosa Thorn is particularly interested in the play's proceedings as it is her own son, Danny, who is having his acting debut with the portrayal of the brooding Moor. Danny is in his first year at university and keen to use the acting process as a breakaway from a romantic entanglement that has recently lost its appeal. Rosa observes that Danny seems to have bounced from the frying pan into the fire once again as his eyes aren't the only ones that are now fixed upon the vivacious yet unfathomable Stella, Desdemona to Danny's Othello. Danny isn't the only one to gaze longingly upon Stella's blonde head; Rosa's childhood friend Perry with whom she is staying has a pressure cooker situation at home over the same young woman.
Rosa's worries aren't confined to the fickle nature of young love. Where appearance is everything, things aren't looking that well at Billings. Possible departmental closures have the revered academic masters snapping at each other's throats and potential investors are being kept in the dark as to what roams the manicured grounds by night. A rapist has chosen the small community as his hunting ground, taking advantage of the student's tendency to short cut the many paths and walkways on the way home to their dormitories at night. Pressure mounts as the May Ball approaches, resulting in a murder.
Vena Cork is a genius at the layer-by-layer method of crime writing. With GREEN EYE you have again multi-perspectives, where clever character snapshots add to the total picture forming as the read advances. Each scenario has its own source of tension and many are inter-related; it is in the plucking apart of these where Cork has hidden the identity of her killer. GREEN EYE encloses its players in a sort of Fool's Paradise where the residents blithely go about their business, blissfully unaware or consciously trying very hard to remain ignorant of the serpent in their midst. The outsider looking in, Rosa Thorn and to a lesser extent the interloper Danny provides the necessary scepticism and doubt required
There is no "detective" as such in GREEN EYE; that is left to be the reader's role. The reader is given plenty of material with which to determine from what direction the menace may originate and as so it is with a psychological thriller, the devil is in the details. It will be interesting to see where Vena Cork can take Rosa Thorn next without it appearing that trouble is always stalking her; I would look forward to seeing a standalone novel from this very talented author, or a new series. GREEN EYE is a well rounded work of fiction that imparts that delicious sense of being a voyeur, peeking beneath the surface of very private lives.
GREEN EYE is the third entry in a continuing series featuring mother and actor Rosa Thorn.
Rosa's worries aren't confined to the fickle nature of young love. Where appearance is everything, things aren't looking that well at Billings. Possible departmental closures have the revered academic masters snapping at each other's throats and potential investors are being kept in the dark as to what roams the manicured grounds by night. A rapist has chosen the small community as his hunting ground, taking advantage of the student's tendency to short cut the many paths and walkways on the way home to their dormitories at night. Pressure mounts as the May Ball approaches, resulting in a murder.
Vena Cork is a genius at the layer-by-layer method of crime writing. With GREEN EYE you have again multi-perspectives, where clever character snapshots add to the total picture forming as the read advances. Each scenario has its own source of tension and many are inter-related; it is in the plucking apart of these where Cork has hidden the identity of her killer. GREEN EYE encloses its players in a sort of Fool's Paradise where the residents blithely go about their business, blissfully unaware or consciously trying very hard to remain ignorant of the serpent in their midst. The outsider looking in, Rosa Thorn and to a lesser extent the interloper Danny provides the necessary scepticism and doubt required
There is no "detective" as such in GREEN EYE; that is left to be the reader's role. The reader is given plenty of material with which to determine from what direction the menace may originate and as so it is with a psychological thriller, the devil is in the details. It will be interesting to see where Vena Cork can take Rosa Thorn next without it appearing that trouble is always stalking her; I would look forward to seeing a standalone novel from this very talented author, or a new series. GREEN EYE is a well rounded work of fiction that imparts that delicious sense of being a voyeur, peeking beneath the surface of very private lives.
GREEN EYE is the third entry in a continuing series featuring mother and actor Rosa Thorn.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Not a police-procedural, this book concentrates on a contemporary setting in a Cambridge college with a number of extraneous characters, including the some-time narrator, an actress, Rosa, who is visiting her son Daniel, a mixed-race budding actor who is presently involved in a production of Othello. We are introduced to a bewildering number of characters, including Daniel's girlfriend Julie, who is the daughter of a college servant. Daniel has just broken up with her, but Julie is determined to get him back.
It is light, but not in a good way. The story waffles at times as too many characters have moments of crisis and not all of them are germane to the plot. It's messy and children, cats and dogs come off badly, just, it seems to me, because they are easy targets. There's a rapist about, but most of those attacked don't even bother to tell anyone about it. I never quite understood why. Rape's such an unremarkable little crime, the author seems to be saying. Then there's a murder and it looks as if the wrong person is going to be charged with the crime. But it all comes out right in the end. The cover has nothing to do with the contents. At no time in the story is a girl tied to a chair. Don't illustrators read what they are depicting?
It is light, but not in a good way. The story waffles at times as too many characters have moments of crisis and not all of them are germane to the plot. It's messy and children, cats and dogs come off badly, just, it seems to me, because they are easy targets. There's a rapist about, but most of those attacked don't even bother to tell anyone about it. I never quite understood why. Rape's such an unremarkable little crime, the author seems to be saying. Then there's a murder and it looks as if the wrong person is going to be charged with the crime. But it all comes out right in the end. The cover has nothing to do with the contents. At no time in the story is a girl tied to a chair. Don't illustrators read what they are depicting?
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
the rosa thorn thrillers by Vena Cork
2 Feb 2009
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I wish Vena Cork would hurry up and write some more in this series. Rosa Thorn is one of those characters you grow to love more and more.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Another hit...
3 Mar 2007
Format:Hardcover
I really enjoyed 'Thorn.' The idea and the plot seemed unique. 'The art of dying' along with 'Green Eye' are still good, but they lack a little of the punch of the first novel. The characterization was just not as good in the last two novels I think. I'm not sure. I will definitely be waiting, though, for Cork's next book. :)
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