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Book ReviewsWisdom of the Bones |
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Book: Wisdom of the Bones
Written by: Christopher Hyde |
Publisher: Onyx Books
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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Hyde's best
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5 / 5
This is definitely one of the most underestimated books out there. Hyde brilliantly weaves a serial killer story within the days of Kennedy's visit to Dallas and assassination, avoiding clich�s and pitfalls the whole way. All of Christopher Hyde's books are fantastic, but this might be the best.
Serial Killer Amidst The Kennedy Assassination
Rating:
5 / 5
Set amongst the Kennedy assassination, though it really deals very little with that whole can of worms. Of course that doesn't mean that Hyde didn't take some interesting detours down a conspiritorial trail in dealing with that aspect of Dallas in November 1963.
Ray Duvall, a retiring Dallas Police Detective with heart disease in its final stages, and a bad case of father issues and sybling rivalray to match, must track down a serial killer with a penchant for young black girls. With all eyes and man hours focused into finding and prosecuting JFK's killer Ray must fight against his remaining time on Earth to catch a killer of young Black Girls in Texas 1963.
Searching through Dallas' seedier side of Dallas our intrepid Dectective runs into Jack Ruby, and Hyde's plot line sometimes mirrors Oliver Stone's JFK with searching for a killer amidst secretive, and highly placed homosexuals.
Another murder in 63 Dallas
Rating:
5 / 5
Dallas, November 1963
To most people these words mean one thing - the JFK assosination.
But surely you don't think, that no other crime was commited in the city at the same time?
This is the story of one of those crimes. On November, 20 a mutilated body is found in a dump. A detective, who is days from retirement, due to declining health (he only has months to live) is assigned the case. And Ray Duval is not going to leave behind an open case. But two days later all hell breaks loose in Dallas, and no one cares about a dead antiques dealer and a black girl... Ray takes a one-man crusade to track his killer, who may be connected to Jack Ruby and some other shadowy figures.
Hyde gives a wonderfull feel of time and place, weathing the historical element into the story, making it a sub-plot and not the main one. Ray is a great character - he starts out as a big bully, but as the book goes you start to see more of him, making him one of the most rounded characters in recent thrillers.
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