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French Creek, June 11, 2007
This review is from: French Creek (Hardcover)
Oh wow, am I happy to have read this book.
Do you remember the movie "The Duel," with Dennis Weaver? Terrifying!
"French Creek" had, for me, the same level of intensity. Read this and
you'll never drive by another junkyard in your life without thinking of
this book (and driving quickly past the junkyard). Through all the
terror, however, there is a lovely, well-written story about a man, his
hopes and his dreams. The characters are so well drawn that they'll
live in your mind for a long time. Even the characters you wish would
go away quickly and leave you alone because they are SO evil. Excellent book!
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Five Stars AND two thumbs up!, May 18, 2007
This review is from: French Creek (Hardcover)
The lesson to be gleaned from Peter Rennebohm's "French Creek" is this: In life, bad things really do happen to good people, more often than we'd like to believe, and I guess the best we can hope for is that we, ourselves, are never selected by the vagaries of life to be one of them. John R. Rule is "good people" and when he ventures out one wintry February day from his Minneapolis office deep into the Minnesota hinterlands, searching for a remote auto salvage yard to find a part for an old truck he's restoring, he soon meets some very bad people doing some very bad things. In tone, mood, and geography this novel reminded me of the movie "Fargo"; which in my opinion is one of the ten best American films ever made. Although the two stories are really nothing alike, the landscape in "French Creek" couldn't be bleaker, the bad guys couldn't be worse, and John Rule's predicament couldn't be more desperate. Besides being an author of crime fiction myself, I am also a full time police officer, and let me tell you, Rennebohm has absolutely nailed his worst evil doer in the book, Ray Steckel, from the shop grease embedded beneath his fingernails, to his foul onion and nicotine breath and his stained, yellow teeth. Rennebohm keeps the story moving at a brisk pace and even though "French Creek" isn't so much a "whodunnit" from a pure mystery standpoint, it is a great suspense novel that positively will not disappoint readers of this genre. This one is definitely in the "two thumbs up" category, and I highly recommend it.
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An Adrenalin Rush, March 25, 2007
This review is from: French Creek (Hardcover)
Sometimes the simplest step can put a person in big trouble.
Peter Rennebohm uses that premise to build a novel that stokes up tension at a consistent rate and won't let you put French Creek down until the last page.
John L. Rule goes looking for a part for a pickup truck he's restoring. His search takes him to a salvage yard in a desolate rural area of Minnesota where he confronts danger that puts him in a struggle for his life.
Time after time, Rule escapes one threat only to face another. And, each is a logical, realistic possibility of what could happen to a person in such circumstance. The plot is deftly orchestrated and keeps one turning the pages, seeking just a little more of the same.
Intertwined with this central theme, Rennebohm gives us insight into Rule's character and his relationship with his wife and children and the father-in-law who, while not entirely trusting the man, goes to great lengths to rescue him.
The story is an adrenalin rush that will have you begging for more.
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