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Title: The Disappearance by J. F. Freedman ISBN: 0-451-19742-9 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: September, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.23 (48 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: THE DISAPPEARNACE is a winner!!
Comment: Having been a fan of Mr. Freedman's since AGAINST THE WIND, this book, THE DISAPPEARANCE is easily his best. The author has learned how to keep us guessing and bring in a taut well-written thriller that is chock full of surprises and intense moments!
Luke Garrison left Santa Barbara after a person he prosecuted, who was later to be found innocent, died by the State. Living in Northernmost California, he is living a secluded lifestyle...until an old friend comes up to see him. Seems a prominent family's daughter had been kidnapped and murdered over a year ago and the cops just made an arrest. The community has him convicted already and would Luke like to come back to his old city and defend the alleged??
The story has a bunch of misery and family secrets throughout and Freedman releases details slowly and surely. Once you think you know what's going on...he twists something and you are off on another chase!
Freedman has turned in his best book to date that is tight and easy to follow. The turns in the plot, the characters and the courtroom scenes come alive. A brilliant book! Now I'm going to read ABOVE THE LAW!
Rating: 5
Summary: Clear your calendar before you start this book!
Comment: You'll need free time until you're finished, because you won't want to put it down!
This is a great read, a courtroom drama and murder mystery that keeps you guessing until the final scenes unfold.
The backbone of the book is the wonderfully drawn characters, especially Luke and Riva. Luke is the one-time prosecutor defending the man everyone thinks is guilty. His motivations are complex and finely drawn by an author with a gift for emotional details, the kind that make a character stand up off the page and come alive.
The roller-coaster ride plot takes you behind the thin veneer of a rich Santa Barbara family, into the dark corners and locked closets of their lives...the places they want no one to see. Their beautiful, innocent 14-year old daughter has been murdered. But how innocent was she?
Freedman earns high marks as a mystery maestro, a true craftsman of the genre. If you like the well-drawn characters of Richard North Patterson and the courtroom pyrotechnics of early John Grisham, you've gotta read The Disappearance!
Rating: 4
Summary: A Powerful Mystery and Commentary
Comment: This is a powerful mystery-legal novel with a very conservative moral undertone. It is the tale of a 14-year-old girl who disappears and is found dead and the complex unraveling of who killed her and why.
The mystery is made far more complex by having the defense lawyer be the former star prosecutor who left town when it turned out a man he had sent to the electric chair was innocent. His wife also left him for another man because he was ignoring her for work, and she was desperate to have children before she was too old.
The interaction between the prosecutor-turned-defense attorney and his former law enforcement colleagues turned opponents, combined with the steadily increasing complexity of a legal case that grows more interesting with each page will keep you glued to the book.
J.F. Freedman has a wonderful knack for writing dialogue and scenes that come alive and developing characters (both good and bad) that you really want to know about and understand. This is superb entertainment, and its commentary on today's teenagers and their neglectful parents will leave you thinking long after you have finished reading.
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Title: Against the Wind by J. F. Freedman ISBN: 0451173082 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: House of Smoke by J. F. Freedman ISBN: 0451179897 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Key Witness by J. F. Freedman ISBN: 0451179900 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Above the Law: A Novel by J. F. Freedman ISBN: 0451202244 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 06 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Bird's-Eye View by J. F. Freedman ISBN: 0446611662 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 29 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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