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Summary: not one of her best books
Review: Probably the worst of Hoag I have read, still it wasn't that bad. To me, this book is too much like Ashes to Ashes. The cops are trying to solve a crime and they have many suspects and they go down many different roads until they finally figure it out. And it turns out the killer was someone they had talked to many times.It seems like Hoag draws out her novels by keeping the characters from finding out info that should have been quite obvious. In this book, Kovac sleeps with someone and doesn't realize she is hiding a secret. A secret that his painfully obvious to the reader way before Kovac figures it out. This is frustrating because if Kovac had figured it out, then he might have solved the crime quicker. But instead, he doesn't find out until the very end, which of course leads to the violent dramatic conclusion. My problem is that this book contained nothing new. While the ending wasn't predictable, I knew exactly what kind of plot devices the author was going to use. The characters were also stereotypes. The cops all had bad mouths and who wouldn't know that Ace Wyatt was also involved somehow. Otherwise there is no reason for him to be in the story.
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Summary: Ashes to Ashes, Boring-to-More-Boring
Review: Looking over the reviews, I can't believe I'm reading the same book! I am sooooooooooooooo bored, I can only read a few pages before falling asleep at night. Yet, I am plugging on because I did read Tami Hoag's last book, "Ashes to Ashes" and found it engrossing. The only reason I don't just QUIT reading this book is because I've never done that before and I am curious enough to want to know what happens. I can't recommend it to others, though. Do a crossword puzzle instead.
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Summary: Dust to Dust - Definately a Disappointment
Review: Tami Hoag became popular because she included strong female characters, steamy sex and a good mystery as her basic ingredients. This latest effort includes only one of these - who dunnit. By the end of the book, I really didn't care. Go back to your basics, Tami, so I will want to continue being a fan.
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Summary: What a disappointment!!
Review: I started reading Tami Hoag with Ashes to Ashes. I immediately sought out her other works and have enjoyed them too. It seemed to be she evolved as a writer & got better with each book. Dust to Dust has none of the depth that her other books have. I didn't care about the characters and hated how it ended on a lack luster note. I hope this was just a bump in her writing.
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Summary: Romance or Mystery?
Review: Tami Hoag demonstrates the ability to tell a good story. Her plots are tricky and unexpected. One or two books find the reader glued to the pages, anxious to find out the ending. The third book, and subsequent novels, however, often find the discriminating reader skipping pages to find the 'meat' of the novel. One does begin to wonder if the author is attempting to write a mystery with love interests, or romance novels laced with mystery. After the fourth book, I was persuaded to believe the latter. Hoag has employed a very trite and consistent formula to her main characters that does not deviate from one book to the next - only the names and locations change. Simply put (and just as simply written): the female character is an independent, competent woman in a male dominated career. For all the standard reasons, she has no time for a male 'complication' in her life and avoids relationships. The main male character is a self-flagellating, guilt-ridden (incredibly good looking) model of masculinity who also avoids relationships as penance for past (often imagined) 'sins.' In spite of their dispositions, pure physicality draws them into bed within 5-10 days of meeting for the first time. Woven through the rest of the novel - with very good mystery/thriller components, I might add - the two must work out their relationship. For some readers, the eroticism may be too graphic, although it (thankfully) does not last too long in any single chapter. If you want a romance novel, you'll love Tami Hoag. If you want a quality mystery/thriller, you are most likely to be somewhat disappointed.
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Summary: Very Good Read
Review: I could not put this book down!!!! I must have lost several hours of sleep trying to finish this book because I could not stop reading. The twists and turns keep coming until the very end of the book. Just as you think you have it figured out, the plot takes yet another turn. Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska work well together and give some personality to the book. I have read almost all of Tami Hoag books and have enjoyed everyone of them. I would recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: Lindsey's Opinion of Dust to Dust
Review: Dust to Dust stars the main characters of Sergeant Kovac and Sergeant Liska. The two have been partners for years and share a special bond of friendship that helps them get through tough times. The plot is centered around the death of Internal Affairs officer Andy Fallon. His death is determined an accident, but when a good friend of Andy is found dead, Kovac and Liska are suspicious. They spend their extra time investigating the circumstances. What they find has the potential to ruin both their careers if they don't tread carefully. Does Fallon's homosexuality have anything to do with his death? What about his investigation of some bad cops in the Minneapolis P.D? Or the accident twenty years ago that left his father a paraplegic and another cop a hero? Kovac and Liska make it their goal to find out what all these things mean in relation to the case. I absolutely loved this book. It was extremely well written, and such a cliffhanger it kept me enthralled the whole time. I found myself losing sleep because I just had to stay up late reading. I felt compelled to read on. I got so involved in the story that I had dreams where every experience written in the novel happened to me. It was so good that I was sad when I finished. I definitely recommend it.
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Summary: Ashes to Ashes...Dust to Dust
Review: Let me start off by saying you won't want to miss Tami Hoag's new novel, Dust To Dust. It's simply that good of a book. Whether you like mysteries, suspense reads, crime stories or simply like good writing no matter the genre, you're in for a treat with this all-but-impossible-to-put-down whodunnit. "It is stunning how quickly it happens. How little time it takes to go from trouble to tragedy. Seconds. Mere seconds without air and the brain begins to shut down. No time to struggle. No time to panic even." So begins Dust To Dust, which features Homicide Detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska of the Minneapolis Police Department at its center. Kovac and Liska, you might recall, were colorful minor characters in Hoag's equally enthralling Ashes To Ashes. Here they take center stage in a case involving dirty cops, sexual preference and the tragic specter of past events long since thought dead and buried. Andy Fallon -- a young, handsome, athletic and gay Internal Affairs investigator -- is found dead in the bedroom of his upscale home, hanging from the end of a noose around his neck. The only witness to his death is a mirror with the word 'sorry' scrawled across it standing several feet away. By all appearances, Fallon's death is a classic suicide. The problem is, all of Detective Kovac's instincts tell him otherwise. What follows is a narrative that unfolds over the next three-hundred-fifty pages or so at a breakneck pace as Kovac and Liska do everything they can to find out why Fallon would have killed himself. Did he do so because of being rejected by is paraplegic father for being gay? Was he despondent over a love affair gone sour? Was he upset about the outcome of a sensitive case he was working on involving not only vicious gay-bashing on the part of officers within the Minneapolis Police Department, but murder as well? Or did his death have something to do with events twenty years in the past; events that left his legendary policeman father a pitiful, bitter alcoholic in a wheelchair? Just try to stop tearing through the pages of Dust To Dust as Hoag skillfully leads you through her intricate and involving plot toward the inevitable, wholly satisfying outcome. The sheer intensity of the suspense, the colorful, larger-than-life characters, the dialogue that crackles with the harshness of real-life speech, and the excellence of the story as a whole will not let you put the book down for long. I guarantee it. I highly recommend Dust to Dust as well as the other Tami Hoag novels I have read so far including: Ashes To Ashes, Guilty As Sin, and Dark Paradise. If you find yourself liking Tami Hoag's novels as much as I do, you might also like, as I do, books involving crime, mystery, suspense and intrigue by such authors as: Patricia Cornwell, Sue Grafton, Elizabeth George, P.D. James, Anne Perry, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, John Grisham, Brad Meltzer, Steve Samuel and Diana Gabaldon (check out her historical mystery story Hellfire). Tami Hoag not only deserves the place she has carved out for herself among these literary heavyweights, but on your bookshelf as well. Enjoy!
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Summary: Gritty and wonderful police mystery
Review: Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska shouldn't have much trouble with this case--an obvious suicide. As police homocide detectives, they have plenty of real work to get done and the entire department urges them to finish their nominal investigation and move on. Only something doesn't smell right. Even though murder is hardly ever done by hanging, and even though there is no evidence of a struggle, Kovac and Liska continue investigating. Tami Hoag has created a truly powerful novel. Kovac and Liska come alive as characters as they look into the case and turn up (biased) cops, and an long-ago police hero who isn't quite what he seems. The police scenes feel authentic and Hoag's dialogue is crisp and distinctive...
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Summary: Not Tami Hoags best book
Review: I've read all Tami Hoag books so far and "Dust to Dust" ist definitely not her best. It's such a depressing story with an end that did not satisfy me. I wish she would write another cajun story.
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