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The Breaker

The Breaker

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good Book
Review: Walters added in a murder/mystery with a love story to attract all kinds of readers. Even if you are accustomed to reading only love stories, The Breaker can still be a book you would enjoy. It may even attract you to different genres of books. From the very first page, Walter's is able to capture the reader's attention and still keep them guessing until the end. This thriller begins with a woman who is raped and murdered by an anonymous killer and later discovered on an almost deserted beach. "She drifted with the waves, falling off their rolling backs and waking to renewed agony every time salt water seared down her throat and into her stomach. During intermittent periods of lucidity when she revisited, always with astonishment, what had happened to her, it was the deliberate breaking of her fingers that remained indelibly printer on her memory, and not the brutality of her rape." (prologue) The Breaker was an interesting book that I would definitely recommend.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: The Breaker
Review: The Breaker written by Minette Walters is an okay book. The beginning of the book is really good. It goes through talking about suspects. As the book goes on you start realizing whom the suspect is. Before the book gets halfway done you know who the killer is. That makes the end of the book bad. By the time it gets to the end there is no point in finishing it. If she would've let the climax wait till the end it would have been a great book.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The Breaker: A unique, murder mystery
Review: The Breaker by Minette Walters is an exciting murder mystery that keeps you guessing to the very end. At the beginning, Walters gives a brief suspect list, and you begin to think that you already know who the killer is, but throughout the book new developments come up that make you question your decision. The Breaker contains a very unique writing style that I had never seen before. Minette Walters includes police interviews, suspect affidavits, and investigation reports. These greatly contribute to the plot because the reader gets a new perspective, one through the eyes of the investigators and townspeople. Normally, the reader sees the story through the eyes of one of the main characters, but in The Breaker I was exposed to multiple views. These helped me to determine who the guilty party was by seeing the entire aspect of their life. If you're looking for a unique murder mystery, coupled with extensive character development and multiple plots, go out today and read The Breaker.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A well paced interesting read.
Review: Minette Walters has given us a novel that is not so much a thriller as it is simply an enjoyable book. The ending certainly lacks the traditional twist and suspense but the trip to the end makes this one of the more enjoyable books I have read this fall. I took this book on a week trip to Mexico and it was never out of reach. The story begins with a body washed up on the breakers and from this point Walters moves through the lives of the people of the Dorset region of southern England. There are several suspects for sure. Each with their own reasons for thinking murder. The sexual relationships of the characters are well documented in a mostly tasteful manner. The book keeps you moving right up to the end thats where I have my only problem. The ending has very little rush, just reason. Do not let the lack of thrill in the end detract from the enjoyment of the journey. A well written book. I grade hard and 3 stars is not bad.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Borrow from a friend or library!
Review: My first thought on this novel is ... don't spend any money on it! Borrow it from a friend or a library. First of all, I don't have to much insight on English policing, so when they named officers I wasn't sure which were officers or detectives and such. I often had to back track tring to keep names straight, thus taking the book longer to read.

The plot wasn't bad, although I knew who the murderer was from the beginning. A woman is found dead on a shore of Chapman's Pool by two young boys. The murdered womans credibility is thrashed,her motives questioned and her parenting skills abolished all to find her murderer. Unlike other reviewers, I liked the occasional drifts from the main story, to Nick Ingram and Maggie Jenner, no these parts of the novel do not have anything to do with the main plot, but its a nice escape from all the technical jumbo.

All in all this book was O.K., I probably wont read it again...

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Where is the mystery?
Review: This is suppose to be a mystery novel isn't it? This book lacked the suspense that previous efforts by Mrs. Walters has had. I found many of the characters one dimensional and flat. I kept reading waiting for the twist only to be disappointed. Not one of her best efforts.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Unsatisfactory ending.
Review: Minette Walters has a wonderful descriptive writing style. I highly recommend her other books and most of The Breaker is written to the same high standard. However, like several other reviewers, I found the ending of The Breaker to be very rushed. The last few pages do not flow smoothly from the rest of the book and the conclusion is unsatisfying.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Where was the surprise at the end?
Review: I bought this book to read on a plane trip and it started out real good and I figured this would be a real winner. What happened to the suspense as to who was the murderer? I thought that maybe at the end I would be surprised but I wasn't, I was bored. What was the purpose of continually telling me about this one woman's dirty house and what was the point of her character anyway?She didn't fit at all into the story unless the author was trying to add a little romance. Who cares that somebody married her and took her money? That had nothing to do with the murder.Don't bother with this one.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Wonderfully developed mystery..........
Review: This story, while dealing with a dead woman who washes up on an English cove keeps you in complete suspense until the very end. Who would have wanted her dead and why? The list of suspects is long and the reasons are varied. Her husband, her mother-in-law, a young actor with a penchant for sex and pornography, a cannabis smoking school teacher obsessed with the actor, or is it someone else altogether. The clues mount up against everyone and the motives for her murder do too. It takes a calm and careful investigator to sort out all the details and PC Nick Ingram is the perfect man for the job. While there were parts of the story that were a bit too explicit for some the story fits together wonderfully, and along the way PC Ingram manages to renew a friendship with a woman whose life was turned upside down by a prior investigation. I will definitely read more Minette Walters books.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good police procedural
Review: This book is quite well-written, and keeps up the mystery and suspense for quite a long time. It shows how dogged police work, and often just plain luck, combines to solve a mysterious death. My one quibble was that, after all the convoluted twists and turns in the plot, the ending seemed rather rushed. Other than that, it's worth reading, and will keep your interst from beginning until the end.


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