Dead Silence

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Summary: Great Read! I hope Alex Collier is around for a long time!
Review: As far as 'series' books go, the Alex Collier books are some of the best of the genre. Mr. Handberg makes Alex a real person and his knowledge of the Twin Cities certainly adds authenticity. The premise of Dead Silence is based on a real event that I remember vividly. Just like in the book, every once in awhile some journalist will attempt to do an update of this event. Maybe this book will inspire someone else to dig up some new facts of the story.

At any rate, the book is a wonerful, 'hard-to-put-down' read. When you start it, curl up for the long run. You will have a hard time putting this one down.

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Summary: Thrilling page turner
Review: Dead Silence is one of the books where I can just sit down and read for hours. It is a mystious and thrilling book. I'm only 15 and I love the book. I recommed this book to anyone because it is so good!!!!

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Summary: Not 5 stars but not bad
Review: I got this book as a hand-me-down. I looked it's review up on Amazon.com like I do with any book before I read it and was glad to see it had 5 stars. I started reading it with high expectations. The beginning is SLOW. It took me over a week to read and I average about a book every 3-4 days (I am a train commuter with very little of a life). In spite of the slow start, the book was not that bad. I like how it did not answer all the questions at the end and reminds you that life does not always have a happy ending.
Well worth the week it took me to get through - still can't give it 5 stars though.

Rating:
Summary: Not 5 stars but not bad
Review: I got this book as a hand-me-down. I looked it's review up on Amazon.com like I do with any book before I read it and was glad to see it had 5 stars. I started reading it with high expectations. The beginning is SLOW. It took me over a week to read and I average about a book every 3-4 days (I am a train commuter with very little of a life). In spite of the slow start, the book was not that bad. I like how it did not answer all the questions at the end and reminds you that life does not always have a happy ending.
Well worth the week it took me to get through - still can't give it 5 stars though.

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Summary: Unique plot: wonderfully complicated and surprising
Review: I loved the book, "Dead Silence". Both my husband and I read it. The storyline was interesting. The development of the characters was quite good. I felt like I knew the Hathaways and their boys'personalities; the newsroom with all its politics (so real!), and the humaness of the characters. The pacing was such that you didn't want to put the book down. My only disappoinment was that the author didn't give us the reasons for the abductions; the death of the one boy and the induction into the cult of the other. I would have loved to have known all the details of what really happened that day, 15 years ago. I would have given the book a 5 rank if we had gotten "the whole picture". The book was too well written to leave us hanging on the "why's". Nevertheless, I thorougly enjoyed this book and will pass it on to others. Thank you!

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Summary: fantastic read
Review: This book is an excellent story and keeps you guessing up to the end. I recommend it to all my friends. Must Read!!!

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Summary: Dead Silence Real Page Turner
Review: This was an excellent book. I couldn't put it down...not only for the fast-paced action, but because it was based on a real crime that has never been solved. I cared about the characters, and was never disappointed in the story. I hope Mr. Handberg keeps writing, and uses Alex Collier as the investigator again.

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Summary: As we read it we believe it really is a true story.
Review: Three brothers - Jed, 8, Matt, 6 and Andrew, 4 - disappeared. Police investigation report considered they drowned. Fifteen years later, Alex Collier, a TV anchorman, starts his own investigation. The author knows how to immerse us deep in Collier's investigation. And very slowly, we go through every small step he takes. Each page you turn could lead you to a surprise. Dead Silence is, undoubtedly, a great book.