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Summary: Wow. A knockout.
Review: Very smart book. Read it in one sitting. A thinking man's mystery with heart and heartache. Writing is superb and comes from a deep place. Writer has rare emotional intelligence. This book rocks and resonates. Really, really good.
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Summary: A thrill to read...
Review: Alice Blanchard has written a book that not only scares the daylights out of you, but brings you deep into the characters. Her story-telling skill is rivaled only by her insight into the human heart--good, bad, and badder. Family dynamics also weave darkly through this story in unique ways. Hopefully another book is on the way from this remarkable writer!
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Summary: Absolutely gripping!
Review: I couldn't put it down! The depth of the characters goes far beyond what I typically see. It takes the book to a completely different level. You want to read this!
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Summary: Great summer read
Review: This is just the book to take on vacation. A great thriller to escape with on the beach. It holds your interest from start to finish. I'm looking forward to Blanchard's next book. Hope it comes out soon.
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Summary: Best book I've read in any genre in a long, long time
Review: Blanchard is a sensational writer who has fashioned a special, immensely powerful tour de force. Rachael Storrow is as haunting a character as I've ever read and this book has one of the top 5 most powerful endings I've ever read. A lot of other genre books are slick, well-researched, and ultimately shallow, cranked out by one-book-a-year hacks. Darkness Peering is very different. The bar is raised. Mark my words -- this book will be appreciated more and more over time.
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Summary: YES!
Review: Yes, read this book. I was playing detective right along with Rachel and when the light finally went on for her I admit I was still in the dark. Thought everything was neatly tied up and then... I had to go back and re-read the last few pages. A definite thriller!
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Summary: AMAZING WRITER, AMAZING BOOK
Review: Just read the paperback and my only problem is that I waited this long to enjoy such a great ride. Next one, I'll shell out the bucks for the hardback. Ms. Blanchard is uniquely talented; a muscular writer whose grasp of the human condition is most impressive. The narrative is eloquent and visually superb, the characters are smart, flawed and wonderfully conflicted, and the plot is a page-burner to the last. Pick this up before you hit the beach, you won't be sorry. Hopefully, she's got a new book coming out soon. What a writer!
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Summary: THIS IS AN AMAZING NOVEL!
Review: DARKNESS PEERING is the best-written and most intelligent thriller I've read in years. I agree with the New York Times Book Review that this was one of the best mysteries of last year... but this is way more than a mystery; DARKNESS PEERING transcends the genre, standing on its own as a superior literary novel. Read this book. It's unique -- in a class by itself.
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Summary: Good Read
Review: A woman's obsession to finish what her father started 18 years ago. Nalen Storrow was a Boston patrolman for 15 years before moving his wife and kids 5 years ago to the sleepy community of Flowering Dogwood, Maine population 1800. The story goes back and forth between Nalen and his family life to the investigation of a murdered 14-year girl with Down syndrome. Nalen has problems relating to his family because of his own tortured childhood at the hands of his brutal, drunkard father. He could not face up to his past by seeing a shrink, as he called them, who could help him. Instead he took the easy way out and killed himself right in the middle of an investigation. 18 years later his daughter Rachel is a detective with the same department he was. Rachel hears about the case and wants to open the file. The captain tells her to do it on her own time. Rachel retraces her father's steps. During her investigation another shocking crime happens, which brings the investigation to the forefront of the entire department. Rachel's search turns into a dark obsessive search for the person who committed the crimes. Alice Blanchard is a multiple prizewinner for her short stories and was awarded the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for fiction. A really good novel to read Pam Stone
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Summary: Mesmerizing and Marvelous!
Review: "Darkness Peering" is a remarkable whodunit and why they did it, but it is far from the standard mystery thriller. It moves in directions you least expect, and it is both intriguing and moving. The characterizations are brilliant, and the dialogue is realistic and imaginative. This is the kind of book you can't put down; each chapter creeps up on you and delivers either a tremendous or subtle emotional wallop. Ms. Blanchard is obviously a writer of tremendous talent, and one can only anticipate her next novel. This is definitely a must read!
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