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Summary: Excellent
Review: This book will scare the pants off you. Really captures your attention immediately. You will really zip through it.
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Summary: Not predictable at all
Review: This is a fascinating look into the world of a serial killer. I couldn't put it down.
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Summary: I LOVED IT!!!
Review: This is the first book I've read by Phillip Margolin and I was really impressed. I can't wait to read his others. This book was great and kept you on the edge of your seat from cover to cover. After I finished it I past it on to my mom and sister and we all agree it is a must read.
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Summary: First-rate suspense writing . . .
Review: This is the first book I've read by this author, having had him recommended to me by several friends, and I wish I hadn't waited so long. His plotting is complex but understandable (if you pay attention), his characters are very true-to-life, and the action is nicely-paced. In this case, it's a serial killer (sort of), a lady lawyer who becomes his attorney (without at first knowing what he is), a D.A. who tries too hard, and a governor about to be confirmed to the Supreme Court with a secret in his political past. This would probably make a terrific movie, but I don't know what you could cut to get it down to size. I'm definitely going to be reading more of Margolin.
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Summary: WHAT A GREAT BOOK11111111111111111
Review: This is the first Margolin book I have read. It is also one of the best books I have read. A great mystery thriller. I did not want to put it down. Every page I read held my mind in suspence. Who was leaving the Black Rose and the notes? Why did they start again? If you like a book that will leave you on the edge of your seat, make you stay up late to finish it, and make you want more, then this is the book for you. I really like Sandford, Parker and Pearson but Margolin ranks right up there with them. If I knew the rest of his books would be this good I would try to find them tomorrow.
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Summary: Great cop/courtroom/serial killer book!
Review: This is the second book I have read by Margolin and he sure knows how to keep the reader interested throughout the entire book. The villian\s in this book were truly some of the baddest bad guys I have ever read in a suspense book. In fact, I think Darius could give Hannibal a run for his money in the torture and cruelty department.
The only reason I gave this book four stars as opposed to five was, unlike his last book I read, I had this one figured out sooner than I would have liked. Also I thought that the response in Hunter's Point was a bit unrealistic. If a serial killer has abducted and possibly killed three women in a city, a small one at that, you think the response from the public would be a strong one and the kidnappings would be in peoples thought for a while. Instead, in an early part of the book Page, a DA, calls Hunters Point and asks about the kidnappings that occured ten years before and the cop says he had only been on the force for five years and he THINKS he MIGHT have heard something about it.....I am pretty sure a cop on a small counties force would have heard about the biggest case that ever occured there.
Anyways, I was really streching to find those two instances because overall this book was a great read and I killed it in one sitting. I recommend this book highly.
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Summary: lovetoread
Review: This was my first book by Phillip Margolin as well as my first mystery in the lawyer-as-detective genre. I thought the story was immediately interesting. The author introduced a lot of characters quickly but usually did so in a nonconfusing way while still writing the kind of details that make a fictional character come to life. I felt I knew a lot about them within a few paragraphs. Everything was written in the third person, and the action jumped around a lot; that made things move fast and it was interesting to read the experiences of several lawyers and detectives, a killer, a private detective etc. Characters were complex but in general I liked the good peple and didn't like the bad ones, and I like that. The story also moved around in time and this was done well.In the book, we learn that a serial killer had murdered in New York state ten years prior. The killer always left a black rose and a note -- "Gone, But Not Forgotten". (One disappointing aspect to the book is that this idiosyncracy is never explained.) A decade later, the same M.O. is being used in a series of crimes in Portland, Oregon. This story is about how the people in Portland are looking for the killer and how people from the earlier investigation become involved. This was an intelligent read and enjoyable. I will definitely read other books by this author.
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Summary: gripping procedural
Review: This was my first book by Phillip Margolin as well as my first mystery in the lawyer-as-detective genre. I thought the story was immediately interesting. The author introduced a lot of characters quickly but usually did so in a nonconfusing way while still writing the kind of details that make a fictional character come to life. I felt I knew a lot about them within a few paragraphs. Everything was written in the third person, and the action jumped around a lot; that made things move fast and it was interesting to read the experiences of several lawyers and detectives, a killer, a private detective etc. Characters were complex but in general I liked the good peple and didn't like the bad ones, and I like that. The story also moved around in time and this was done well. In the book, we learn that a serial killer had murdered in New York state ten years prior. The killer always left a black rose and a note -- "Gone, But Not Forgotten". (One disappointing aspect to the book is that this idiosyncracy is never explained.) A decade later, the same M.O. is being used in a series of crimes in Portland, Oregon. This story is about how the people in Portland are looking for the killer and how people from the earlier investigation become involved. This was an intelligent read and enjoyable. I will definitely read other books by this author.
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Summary: A Very Good Murder Mystery!
Review: This was my second Phillip Margolin mystery and it was better then the first one that I read which was The Undertakers Widow. I loved everything about "Gone, But Not Forgotten." I have read so many murder mysteries that I know what is good and what is bad. If you like going on a chase to find a crazy killer, then "Gone, But Not Forgetten" is your kinda book.
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Summary: Margolin writes a better ending than Grisham
Review: This was the first book by Phillip Margolin that I have read. It was mostly a thriller, but some reviews hinted at a courtroom drama type thing. It was defiantely a suspense/thriller. While the book was a very entertaining read, that moves along at a very quick pace, it is also very predictable. Margolin throws in plot twists that, you, the reader, will find yourself suggesting before they happen. Still, this was a very exciting read. I unfortunately have this knack for plotting and development that ruins most mystery books and movies. And for the ending, it was well drawn out and somewhat believable. I have read that Margolin should be compared to Grisham, but I don't think that is true. Grisham would have built up some suspense, and then ended the book on the last 2 pages. The endings have always been the worst thing about a Grisham novel. He always ends his books so abruptly, like running as fast as you can to the edge of the cliff, and then just falling. Gone, But Not Forgotten is a fun book to read. If you like thrillers, or suspense books, then you should definatley read this.
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