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by Minette Walters (Author)
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  • Paperback: 528 pages
  • Publisher: Pan Books; New edition edition (10 May 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330343742
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330343749
  • Product Dimensions: 18 x 11.3 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 98,649 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Something else had happened...Something so terrible that she was too frightened to search her memory for it...The newspapers reported the case with relish. Jane (Jinx) Kingsley, fashion photographer and heiress, tries to kill herself after being unceremoniously jilted by her fiance, who has since disappeared - together with Jinx's best friend Meg Harris...But when Jinx wakes from her coma, she can remember nothing about her alleged suicide attempt. With the help of Dr Alan Protheroe of the Nightingale Clinic, she slowly begins to piece together the fragments of the last few weeks. Then the memories begin to surface...memories of utter desperation and absolute terror. 'Violence may well be offered to anyone who tries to part you from this marvellous, dramatically intelligent novel. It shimmers with suspense, ambiguity and a deep, unholy joy' - Frances Fyfield, "Daily Mail". 'Guaranteed to burn the midnight oil' - Mike Ripley, "Daily Telegraph".

About the Author
Minette Walters is England's bestselling female crime writer. She has won the CWA John Creasey Award for best first crime novel, the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best crime novel published in America and two CWA Gold Daggers for Fiction. Minette lives in Dorset with her husband and two children.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Excellent plot but what a tedious read..., 10 Mar 2007
By Dr. C. M. Shreeve "Bushdoc-bookworm" (West Wales) - See all my reviews
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This is the second Minette Walters novel I have read, the other being The Shape of Snakes, and I got as little pleasure from this one as I did the first. Good points first: brilliant plotting, and, at one level, a gifted mind at work and a fast pace of action. The book held my attention sufficiently for me to finish the story to discover the perpetrator. But oh dear, the disappointment and tedium of the style and presentation...

I like to get right into the feelings, personalities and subconscious of the main players. I like to get to know the police officers, and victim's family (where applicable) and be able to see and feel what is happening from the chief protagonist's viewpoint. My usual feeling on reading a P D James or Ruth Rendell offering is huge admiration - and sadness at having to say 'goodbye' to characters whom I have got to know so well. I didn't feel I knew any of these 'people' who came over more as literary marionettes whom the author manipulated with admittedly consummate skill. Even worse, I did not care a fig for the described suffering of the players, and couldn't empathise with the 2 chief characters at any level.

I finished the book out of curiosity re the plot's culmination - and there were no farewells to be said. In fact I did not feel that the personalities had been portrayed convincingly enough for us even to have been introduced.

The chapters and sub-sections are in the main fairly short and there is minimum description of environment and character. Most of the individuals are hugely dysfunctional and the language almost universally overstrong for my taste. I think the main male character and the police officers (at least when interviewing suspects) were the only ones not to use frequent expletives as part of their everyday conversation.

In particular, I missed the setting within a timeframe and location with which I could felt an empathy. I sorely missed the great swathes of brilliantly and beautifully written narrative and character description one gets so bountifully from P D James; and the 'surreally' realistic character and atmosphere evocation typical of Ruth Rendell. I put the book down feeling thoroughly depressed and miserable, and I am unlikely to read another minette Walters novel.
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Dark and sinister (warlockb@hotmail.com), 15 Nov 2004
By B. Jonsson "Literate Warlock" (falun, dalarna sweden) - See all my reviews
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An early Walters, The Dark Room, is not her best work.
It is, however not a bad book,full of surprizes and turnings.

Surviving the suicide attempt, she wakes up in hospital, with only fractions left of her memories of the last few weeks.
People visit her and all seems to be alright, if it hadn't been for the terror she feels, trying to remember, giving her panic attacks and frightening both relatives and doctors..
Friends visit her and all agree that she is recovering, when she starts to talk about stalkers in the hospital grounds...
Surely this is just imaginations of a troubled mind..?

As she digs deeper into her memories, frightening things turn up and someone, someone bad, waits for the right opportunity to kill her..

I liked the book a lot, as it was full of surprises, it wasn't that easy to find out the thruth, which is good. A skilled writer makes you guess at just the right moment, not before or after.
Walters is such a skilled writer!

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars This is a brilliant book, 13 Nov 2000
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I really enjoyed this book. Minette Walters keeps you guessing until the end and the twist is amazing. I have read all except her latest book and feel this is the best so far. Minette Walters makes you understand the character and what she is going through, I think the newspaper articles and other items used to help you understand the progress are brilliant. I couldn't put this book down.
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1.0 out of 5 stars No saving graces
This tedious book purports to be a mystery thiller opening with a girl losing her memory following suicide attempts. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Officer Dibble

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good Read
This was my first Minette Walters book and I will definately read more. I like her style of writing, not over-describing the actions/thoughts of the characters. Read more
Published on 30 Aug 2006 by Book Worm

4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent read.
The room is indeed dark for Jinx, and for us as well, as she tries to make sense of her troubled dreams after recovering from a mysterious car crash that the police insist was her... Read more
Published on 28 Nov 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping, focused and psychologically challenging
Minette Walters manages to do it again in a little known of book. She manages to get inside the heads of her charcters in this book which is crucial to the plot. Read more
Published on 21 Nov 2001 by htaylor68@hotmail.com

3.0 out of 5 stars Didn't care about the characters
I did enjoy most of the book, but I had trouble sympathizing with the characters. I didn't care about Jinx, the recovering car crash victim with amnesia. Read more
Published on 6 Mar 2001 by tamaradanso@webtv.net

5.0 out of 5 stars Another favourite by Ms. Walters
Having only just "discovered" Minette Walters a short time ago I'm now ploughing through her books and this was yet another favourite. Read more
Published on 26 Feb 2001 by Christine L

5.0 out of 5 stars A cleaver and thrilling unputdownable mystery.
Another thrilling mystery from one of Walters' gripping collection. The mystery will keep you guessing until the end. Read more
Published on 11 Feb 2000

2.0 out of 5 stars Talk, talk, talk
This is my first book on this author, and I was attracted to The Dark Room because of the synopsis on the book's back cover. Read more
Published on 1 Feb 2000

2.0 out of 5 stars Talk, talk, talk
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Published on 1 Feb 2000

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