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absorbing reading, September 19, 2007
Nasaw typically writes a great thriller, and this is no exception. The disheveled former FBI agent Pender is back on stage to bring another serial killer to justice. In this case, the stage is the fictional island of St Luke (think US Virgin Islands), and the serial killer(s) are already quite advanced in their careers. Nasaw spends some time going into their motivations, which are fascinating and well-thought out; he develops several characters fully and dramatically; and he effectively uses the island culture, its people, its history, and its geography as well. Nasaw is a pro and knows how to write a tight story.
This kind of book is never going to appear in the literature section of the library, but if you are looking for a great summer crime story, you could do a lot worse than to read 27 Bones, or any other of Nasaw's books for that matter.
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A Gruesome Threesome and an Anti-Hero Hero to Die For, February 5, 2010
Phil and Emily Epp are anthropologists, they are serial killers too. Weird serial killers. It started for them when they were spending time with a native culture that believed they could absorb a person's soul by inhaling their last breath. Emily, because of a strange accident, wound up sucking in the tribal leader's dying breath and it changed her. It changed hubby Phil as well. Now they want more, so along with the tribal leader's son, they set out to get their fill, because they've all come to believe that that dying breath will make them live forever. Only trouble is, somebody has to die to give up his last breath.
The gruesome threesome wind up on the island of St. Luke, where they inhale a lot of last breaths by cutting off the right hands of the locals, sucking in as they expire. This they do for years, but all good things must come to an end and the beginning of theirs happens when a few of the bodies wash ashore and the local cops learn that they have a serial killer on their island who they call the Machete Man.
Ex-FBI agent E.L. Pender is back from Mr. Nasaw's excellent works, "The Girl he Adored" and "Fear itself" and he's come to St. Luke to match wits with the killers. He's not there long before he becomes friends with Holly Gold, who has come to the island to raise her deceased sister's children and now it's important that he find the bad guys before anything happens to them. This book has it all, scary bad guys, a girl and kids we care about and an anti-hero, hero who is just outstanding. Tension, suspense, thrills and chills galore.
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GOOD ENTERTAINMENT, November 22, 2008
Twenty Seven Bones starts quickly with a prologue that grabs the reader and sets the stage for a page-turner. With a story line that is intimately connected to island tribal rituals (which may be fact or fiction) the book has an eerie, believable quality. When two serial killers get introduced to these tribal practices, the stage is set for a killing spree on an island influenced by ancient Danish dynasties. An adventurous pace continuing right up to the last chapter and characters that were believable and well described were strengths. The book's weakness involved the author's quasi-pornographic style. I am not sure who the author was targeting, but other than twenty-something males, the sophomoric fixation with the "big uns" and the "tee tees" went beyond titilating to a nauseating level. A controlled level of seductivity would have been more intrigueing. In other words, this is not a book I would recommend to my mother.
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