Keeper of the Keys [Kindle Edition]

Perri O'Shaughnessy (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

This stand-alone novel of suspense from bestseller O'Shaughnessy (Case of Lies and 10 other legal thrillers starring Nina Reilly) has a glamorous setting, Los Angeles's Topanga Canyon, where a once promising architect, Ray Jackson, lives in a house he designed with his furniture-maker wife, Leigh. Unfortunately, despite some good plot twists and pinkish herrings, none of the characters is particularly interesting—not Ray, a tightly wound man who spends his time making models of every house he lived in during his tangled childhood; not Leigh, who may have a buried sex life; and especially not Kat and Jackie, two sisters in the real estate trade who used to be close to Leigh growing up. When Leigh disappears without a trace one night, Ray only with the greatest of reluctance (and nudges from Kat and the cops) sifts through secrets old and new for a truth that's as hard to swallow as it is to care about. Perri O'Shaughnessy is the pseudonym of sisters Pamela and Mary O'Shaughnessy. (Nov.)
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From Booklist

The best-selling author of the Nina Reilly series (in actuality two sisters writing under a pseudonym) veers off in a new direction with this stand-alone thriller. When Leigh Jackson disappears, her architect husband, Ray, doesn't seem all that worked up about it. But when his wife's old friend, Kat, shows up, hurling accusations, Ray realizes he has some explaining to do. Using a set of keys to every home he's ever lived in, Ray revisits his past, trying to find out if he is capable of the thing Kat suspects he might have done. And he uncovers truths about himself so deep and so dark that he begins to question his own identity. The book is a welcome breath of fresh air, especially for readers who've lost interest in the stodgily formulaic Reilly series. This is a well-paced, smartly written thriller with an ambiguous protagonist and a genuinely mysterious mystery to be solved. The dialogue could use a bit more polishing, but, given the novel's virtues, that's a small quibble. David Pitt
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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 342 KB
• Publisher: Delacorte Press; 1st edition (October 31, 2006)
• Sold by: Random House Digital, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000MAH7U4
• Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #107,230 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not their best work, December 25, 2006

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Speedy Reader "hooked on books" (Peoria, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Keeper of the Keys (Hardcover)

I've read all the books in the Nina Reilly series and they were really enjoyable but this stand alone attempt is pretty bad. The writing is long winded and convoluted, the story does not play out well and by the end you realize it doesn't make a bit of sense. I truly hope they go back to the style of writing they are used to and get off this path quickly. This book was a real disappointment.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars How Can People Like This Book?, January 24, 2007

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A. A. Tranmer - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Keeper of the Keys (Hardcover)

I won't even go bore you with the storyline of this novel, because that might make it sound interesting and the absolute last thing I want to accomplish in this review it to give you any inclination to read this book. To put it eloquently, it sucked--though not hard enough or long enough to be worth even a good laugh. Don't waste your precious time on it. The whole thing is gratingly cliché. Plow as you will through the miry cast of annoyingly trite characters and mediocre prose in order to ultimately discover the big twist you are so obviously set up for, the big surprise will leave you so thoroughly unsatisfied you just might have to take a cold shower.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very Disappointing Read, November 25, 2006

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A Greer (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Keeper of the Keys (Hardcover)

I am a Perri O'Shaughnessy fan and eagerly look forward to each new book. However, I must say this book was a complete and total disappointment. The storyline is confusing and completely uninteresting. There is nothing about this story that keeps the reader's attention. I am trying to finish this book but at page 230, it's so boring and dry, I don't think I can keep going.

I highly recommend the Nina Reilly series but unfortunately, this book is no where the calibur of writing exhibited in that series.