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Summary: Another Hoag winner
Review: A Thin Dark Line returns to the French Triangle, the setting of two earlier books, Lucky's Lady and Cry Wolf. Those of you who have not already read Cry Wolf may want to read it before reading Thin Dark Line as the killer and the victims in Cry Wolf are revealed in Thin Dark Line.A few years after the Bayou Strangler's reign of terror is ended, Bayou Breaux again terrorized by a killer. After a prominent businesswoman's mutilated body is found, her accused stalker is investigated and arrested for the murder. Charges of corruption in the Sheriff's Office, tainted evidence, and a legal technicality set Marcus Renard free. Renard now focuses his obsession on Sheriff's Deputy Annie Broussard, the officer who found the body. Broussard feels an obligation to the murdered woman, and to the woman's child, to find and punish her killer. Deciding to use Renard's obsession to get close enough to him to prove his guilt, Annie is caught in a dangerous crossfire. Her only ally is Detective Nick Fourcade, a rogue cop with a reputation of corruption and violence. Annie can't be sure if Fourcade is helping her or using her, since it was his investigation, his evidence, and his mistake that allowed a brutal murderer go free. Fourcade's only hope of redeeming himself and his reputation is in the hands of the woman most likely to die next.
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Summary: Dark and sultry
Review: Hey, chere', Tami Hoag has a new book. "A THIN DARK LINE" returns to the French Triangle, the setting of two earlier books, "Lucky's Lady" and "Cry Wolf". As a matter of fact, you might want to ready "Cry Wolf" first, as "A Think Dark Line" reveals both the killer and victims in "Cry Wolf".
A few years after the Bayou Strangler's reign of terror is ended, Bayou Breaux is once again terrorized by a killer. After a prominent businesswoman's mutilated body is found, her accused stalker is investigated and arrested for the murder. Charges of corruption in the Sheriff's Office, tainted evidence, and a legal technicality set Marcus Renard free. Renard now focuses his obsession on Sheriff's Deputy Annie Broussard, the officer who found the body. Broussard feels an obligation to the murdered woman, and to the woman's child, to find and punish her killer. Standing in her way is her own department. Deciding to use Renard's obsession to get close enough to him to prove his guilt, Annie is caught in a dangerous crossfire. Her only ally is Detective Nick Fourcade, a rogue cop with a reputation of corruption and violence. Annie can't be sure if Fourcade is helping her or using her, since it was his investigation, his evidence, and his screwup that let a brutal murderer go free. And Fourcade's only hope of redeeming himself and his reputation is in the hands of the woman most likely to die next.
Nina M.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: I would have like to give it 4 1/2 stars. I thought it started a little slow but soon after that I couldn't put it down. It really was a great book. I had no idea who it was until near the end. It was the perfect "who done it". I think I will read it again now that I know who it was to see what little clues I may have missed.
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Summary: Unbiased Hoag Reader
Review: I've seen Tami Hoag's books in stores for years, finally I joined the bag wagon and bought one. Being a big fan of criminal thrillers, horror and suspenseful mystery books- I was hoping to find a new author to sink my teeth into. Thin Dark Line was about a man that was acquitted for a stalking/murder that his whole town believe's he's guilty of. We get to know the police force who after the trial is over, is outraged, along with the whole town- and everyone's on the edge. But there are 2 cops more dedicated than all others, and while they try to get further evidence to convict the suspected killer- they put themselves in the middle of a web of deceit. And put their own lives on the line, and maybe even fall in love. I did for the most part enjoy this book, however it did not impress me to the point that I'm planning on reading any further Hoag books. I might end up picking up another, maybe not. I enjoyed the characters, the suspense and the ending that was unexpected. What I found annoying though was how LONG this book was- with 600 pages- 200 could have easily been edited out. Don't get me wrong, I'm not usually one to complain about the length of a book...it's just there seemed to just be way too much "stuff" in this book. Unnecessary details, conversations and things going on. I enjoy a great mystery, but I think what makes mysterys so exciting is that they stay to a length that is fast paced and only filled with necessary details- and I think this book went beyond that point.
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Summary: a good read for the beach
Review: In a nutshell - this is a good and easy read. The pacing seems to flow rather well, and I hardly noticed the 600 pages. I plan on reading more of Hoag's writing, as it's a nice escape that you can pick up at any point. Having never been to Louisiana, I can't testify to whether or not she adequately describes the area, but nonetheless, there is an unmistakable atmosphere in her descriptions of the people, the French and Cajun influences, and the attitudes of the town. My one complaint is that in 600 pages, there could have been a little more in character development. There were characters that were seemingly one-note (see: Stokes as the perfect example of a "male jerk stereotype") and could have had a little more to them. Even Nick, one of the lead characters, seemed to be overly mysterious, in the sense that we know he's an angry withdrawn man who doesn't trust many people and has little time for BS....but he doesn't really get fleshed out the way he could have been in 600 pages of story. But this is a minor complaint. It's not something that takes a considerable amount of enjoyment OUT of the book, just something that I was hoping would be done a little more than it was. It's good and suspensefull, had my guessing until the final few chapters and made me wonder who to trust throughout the story. If this is your thing, I recommend with thumbs up.
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Summary: really 3.5-3.75 stars
Review: Let me start out by saying "I love Hoag". This book was good but not as good as Cry Wolf. This book was a little too long. Needed more romance. I didn't feel there was any consistent chemistry between Fourcade and Broussard.
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Summary: Maybe in another universe
Review: Somewhere, in a parallel universe similar to ours where the laws of sexual harrasment are not enforced, lives Amy, the cajun girl sheriff. Here, it is considered normal for females to have peepholes in their locker room, and normal banter between co-workers consists of comments about frigidity or impotence.
Alas, things get even worse when she arrests a male officer. Comments about "the brotherhood" abound, and when harrassment increases to live snakes in her vehicle or even being forced off the road by a car, she doesn't complain as she assumes it is her fellow officers. It is normal to be removed from active duty as punishment for the other officers harrassing her? I guess they haven't been sued yet. And, which man does she go for? Of course the one with the tendency to beat people to a pulp.
Aside from the unrealistic work envirment and the feelings of S and M the entire novel produces, it is also excessivly wordy and could have been half as long. I do not recommend this novel unless you are trapped overnight in a bus station and there is nothing else to read.
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Summary: Tami Hoag--A Thin Dark Line (1997)
Review: Tami Hoag begins "A Thin Dark Line" at a torid pace, as a suspected killer is allowed to walk the streets a free man based on a judicial technicality--he was not proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. The family of the rape/murder victim is horrified, the media licks its lips in anticipation, and detective Nick Fourcade is determined to settle the score. Fourcade is the detective who investigated the Marcus Renard case, at some points crossing the line in which police officers are supposed to step over. He will stop at nothing to have his justice. Deputy Annie Broussard is a youthful, pirky young woman who is also determined to find the truth. She was the officer who found the woman's mutilated body and has crossed her own boundaries to prove that Renard is the killer. She must form an alliance with the hard-nosed, intense Broussard--and she gets much more than she bargained for. As the two travel the streets of the Louisiana French Triangle, Broussard and Fourcade must not only learn to co-exist for the their own fates, but to stop a deranged killer from wrecking more hovac on a peaceful small city. At nearly a 600-page length, this Hoag novel drags from time to time, failing to emphasize some of the main aspects because so much focus is on the relationship between Fourcade and Broussard. While their rapport is important to the tale, the book could have been constructed in a smoother, more concise manner. With this said; however, "A Think Dark Line" is a good story, crossing the immoral tendencies of a dark hero with the innocent, steam-rolling attitude of its heroine to create a piece that undoubtably will keep some readers up all night--but due to its painstaking nature--well into the morning too.
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Summary: good
Review: The story takes place in Louisiana. A suspected murderer is set free because there is an accusation of evidence tampering by the cop who arrested him. The cop is later found beating the suspect by a fellow officer, Annie. Annie places Nick, the cop, under arrest as she feels duty bound to follow the law, but is harassed by her fellow officers. She and Nick end up looking into the case together in an uneasy and suspicious alliance. She finds herself being stalked in frightening circumstances. Is it the killer?
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Summary: good
Review: The story takes place in Louisiana. A suspected murderer is set free because there is an accusation of evidence tampering by the cop who arrested him. The cop is later found beating the suspect by a fellow officer, Annie. Annie places Nick, the cop, under arrest as she feels duty bound to follow the law, but is harassed by her fellow officers. She and Nick end up looking into the case together in an uneasy and suspicious alliance. She finds herself being stalked in frightening circumstances. Is it the killer?
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