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A Room For The Dead

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This is the best book that I have ever read. I kept putting off buying the book because it just didn't look interesting. Then one day, when a long bus ride was ahead of me, I bought the book because there didn't seem to be anything better. I could not put the book down and the ending actually made me feel like crying.... not because it was a bad ending but because the main character seemed so real to me that I actually felt his emotions. I recommend "A Room for the Dead" to anyone who mentions that they are a "reader". I have read it five times now.

I love this book. I started reading it and I couldn't put it down. It is wonderfully written. I don't read as much I used to unless I find a great book like this one. I stumbled over it at my aunts house. i saw the cover and read the back and I was hooked on it. My mom wants to read it and she is a usual Stephen King fan! I recommend it to people who like to read a good book!

I have read most of Noel Hynd's thrillers, and each one seems to get better and better. This happend to be the first one I had read, and I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked it. This isn't the type of book I normally go for, but Hynd does an excellent job reeling the reader in until I just couldn't put it down. The intriguing storyline, with a touch of supernatural mystery, makes for quite a chilling read.

I really enjoyed this book alot. I came across this book in a small book store. It really grabbed my attention when i read the back cover. well i read it and i could not put the book down. It keeps you wanting to find out who really is behind the killings from start to finish. It is really one of the first thrillers you can pick up that are really hard to put down at first.you will just love it to death.

Another winner from the author of GHOSTS! A supernatural police procedual. Noel Hynd produces great supernatural novels. This one is no exception. But if you want to read his best - read GHOSTS!

A fun murder mystery/cop thriller/ghost story that keeps the pages turning as the reader gets more and more invested in finding out just who the real killer is. Not perfect, bur a very good quick read.

I'm not sure why this book has garnered such fantastic press. It's a decent read, especially if you enjoy a cop thriller with a hint of the supernatural. But it's also a pretty standard read that doesn't offer anything especially new or exciting to either the genre of the thriller or the supernatural. The main character is well developed and the plot will keep you engaged; you won't find anything overtly awful about it. The writing is competent. I wouldn't warn anyone away from this book, but don't go into it expecting to have your world rocked. It's a bit too pedestrian for that.

A combination ghost story-cop mystery that started out pretty good but then began to lose my interest about a third of the way through. It did pick up again towards the end. Good finish to the story.

Noel Hynde, a respected author (if his press is to be believed) has penned a promising murder mystery/ghost story, but ultimately fails to deliver the thrills and chills that the bookcover claims.

Frank O'Hara, a bright State Patrol Detective for the State of New Hampshire, is a haunted man. His primary demon is the stereotypical one of all literary Irish cops: alcohol. He invited this particular demon into his life upon the suicide of his long-time partner on the force. His partner, intelligent and one of N.H.'s best, one day, without warning, pulled out his own service revolver, put it to his head, and pulled the trigger. Word was that his partner had been slowly and quietly going insane...a fate that O'Hara fears is happening to him. See, a serial killer, whom O'Hara was instrumental in sending to the electric chair, is impossibly killing again. And to top it all off, the dead killer himself is visiting O'Hara's house, deep in the deadly grip of an east coast winter. O'Hara is "this close" to retirement...and doesn't appreciate this last big murder case...nor the fact that he's being pursued by the ghost of a killer, a ghost who is still claiming his unequivocal innocence.

One wonders in how many ways an author can show and tell a protagonists disbelief in all things spiritual...reading "A Room For The Dead" will quickly show you exactly how many, and show you how repetitive and irritating such a device can be. Perhaps it wouldn't have been so bad if the story actually delivered the goods at the end of the 300-something pages this book contains. But it doesn't, and O'Hara ultimately just ends up sounding whiny and ridiculous...grating on the nerves. While the premise of this story is promising, it goes nowhere, and takes a long, long time to get there.