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Title: Body Language by James W. Hall, Laural Merlington ISBN: 1-56740-310-7 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Pub. Date: August, 1999 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.21 (24 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Bit Of Everything
Comment: Alexandra Rafferty overcomes a shocking childhood incident before growing up to become a forensic photographer. Although appearing to have put her past behind her, she still lives with it, affecting her marriage to Stan, an armoured truck driver who thinks he has devised the perfect crime, a plan in which he would rob his own truck, after which he and his girlfriend would leave Miami to live on the proceeds.
Inevitably, Stan's perfect crime isn't so perfect after all, having attracted the attention of some other life-long and low-life criminals who can see an easy profit for the taking. Somehow, the money falls into Alexandra's hands and she suddenly finds herself on the run from her husband, the opportunistic criminals and, just to add a nifty twist, a serial killer. With all of these people chasing the same person, their paths are bound to cross at some point with unpredictable results.
There are all sorts of interesting and strange characters making up the book: with Emma, the young pool cleaner who keeps a pet cockroach on a string leash in her pocket; and Lawton, Alexandra's father, an ex-policeman who is slowly losing his memory. He is a tragic figure who still has a very important part to play in the story's outcome.
This is a brisk thriller joining together a desperate chase across Florida with the tension and terror of not knowing when or where the serial killer will strike next.
Rating: 3
Summary: MIAMI MAYHEM
Comment: This is my first Hall book, and obviously the first in a new series featuring the unflappable Alexandra Rafferty, a crime scene photographer with a dark secret from her childhood. A neighborhood boy raped her; she went to threaten him with her cop father's gun, and accidentally shoots the boy dead. Dad helps cover up the crime, and no one suspects the truth, or do they?
Flash up to the present day and Alexandra finds herself involved in a serial rapist killer's horrifying carnage. Add to this a truly psychotic husband who is planning a major armored car heist, and two thieves who are like something out of a David Lynch movie, and you have the many ingredients of this strange, but mesmerizing, crime novel. If things weren't bad enough, Alex's father is now senile, suffering from Alzheimer's, and getting her in more trouble than she could ever dream possible.
Hall goes out on a limb in his treatment of the father's character. The overwhelming tragedy of Alzheimer's should never be milked for comic relief, but Hall does this quite often, seguing sometimes very uncomfortably from serious repercussions of the disease to the inherent "comical" side effects.
The book has a nice pace and Hall certainly demonstrates a feel for his locales. (...) It's fairly obvious who (the rapist) is, (...) so obvious, you almost want to laugh at his attempt.
The characters of Norman, Emma and Jennifer are so over the top, they never achieve one moment of lucidity or credibility. Emma and her pet cockroach; Norman in his Quasimodo shroud; and dimwit Jennifer, the epitome of the dumb blonde provide some comic relief, but they are so sinister and unlikeable, you can only welcome their inimitable demises.
Perhaps Hall tried to hard to give us a complex novel that he forgot his audience's suspension of belief levels.
Rating: 5
Summary: Body Language
Comment: Hall has created a fast paced thriller. The exchanges between the father and the daughter are both comical and tragic at the same time. It touches on the frustration of the elderly with memory loss and the patience the child must apply. It does this while moving you along a path of mystery. This book keeps you guessing until the very end.
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Title: Red Sky at Night by James Hall ISBN: 0440225744 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 08 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Under Cover of Daylight by James W. Hall ISBN: 0393321258 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Tropical Freeze by James W. Hall ISBN: 0393318958 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Rough Draft by James W. Hall ISBN: 0312974922 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Buzz Cut by James Hall ISBN: 0440217822 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 10 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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