Shadows Still Remain [Paperback]

Peter De Jonge (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Harper; 1st Edition/1st Printing edition (2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0007300263
• ISBN-13: 978-0007300266
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,143,570 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars entertaining New York City police procedural, April 25, 2009

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shadows Still Remain: A Novel (Hardcover)

Thirty-four years old NYPD Detective Darlene O'Hara leads the search for missing NYU student Francesca Pena. However, the day after the Thanksgiving weekend, the hunt ends when the teen's battered body is found in East River Park.

The police led by veteran Detective Cooney hone in on Pena's former boyfriend David McLain as the violence implies a crime of passion. O'Hara differs as something is not quite right. She focuses on Pena's life especially after she came to NYU on a full scholarship. O'Hara soon finds evidence that the perfect student worked at an escort service and strip club. Following up on a tattoo the killer carved on the victim, O'Hara finds another student with the same telltale mark.

Although not unique as the premise of the story line has been used a lot in mysteries, fans will enjoy SHADOWS STILL REMAIN, an entertaining New York City police procedural. O'Hara is an intriguing lead character as she defies her more experienced peers seeking a solution elsewhere even though none at first surface; that is until she begins to uncover the truth behind the façade of the perfect student. Fans will enjoy her investigation even if we know early one what to expect.

Harriet Klausner

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dark Shadows, April 26, 2009

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Sara (CARLSBAD, CA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shadows Still Remain: A Novel (Hardcover)

In Shadows Still Remain Peter de Jonge (as in the frequent James Patterson co-author) creates O'Hara a beautiful, rash and ambitious detective. O'Hara "catches" her first murder case and is determined to work it so much so that she breaks all the rules of professionalism and police protocol. As she learns more about the victim, Franseca Pena, "the undisputed star...whose approval and messy snorts of laughter the others vie for", each new clue only begets more questions. Out of her league and damaging her career, O'Hara doggedly pursues the only avenue of redemption--solving her case.

Peter de Jonge unsurprising reads much like James Patterson. You'll find the same page turning elements and suspenseful drama amongst colorful descriptions like, "slushy rain slobbers all over the roof, and O'Hara tracks a fat brown droplet down the windshield." De Jonge however has gone darker and delivers a better than average police procedural story. If you novelized a Law and Order SVU script, you'd have the gist. The book is loaded with surprises and is a tough to solve who done it. The title is apt, as it leaves the reader with many questions and unresolved story lines, and one can only conclude that this may be the beginning of an exciting series.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Can't Stop Reading This NYC Cop Thriller, May 6, 2009

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Maris Zivarts - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shadows Still Remain: A Novel (Hardcover)

I disappeared briefly from society when I picked this book up. Once I started, I could not put it down, and I didn't want it to end. An amazing read. The wordsmithing is brilliant and the story so cleverly evolves. The descriptions of the gritty, seamy side of New York City and characters who frequently find themselves there are vivid and engaging. Being familiar with the city, I found it to be a somewhat surreal experience to read it as I felt completely swept up in the sights and dives of the Lower East Side. I hope I get to read more of de Jonge's heroine detective in the future.