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Winterland. Alan Glynn (2010)

by Alan Glynn(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0571250041 (ISBN13: 9780571250042)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Faber & Faber

review 1: A blockbuster of a crime novel that I could not put down.Two members of family with the same namemet their death; one by a gangland murder. And the other ---by a questionable accident.The youngest sister of the family Gena Rafferty asked to many questions and she was faced withpossible harm. This novel is about corruption---hidden past and who was responsible for multiple deaths.It takes place in Dublin,and the building that was built took many livesA fantastic book.And Gena is terrific!
review 2: If this book had been 200 pages shorter it would have been very much better. However, a pretty ordinary story with an ending that was completely predictable was stretched out over almost 500 pages and that was far too long; the plot just could not support a book of ... morethat length. The main character was, at first, quite interesting and I found myself caring what happened to her. However once she turned into some sort of action woman; shooting, kicking, taking hostages, she lost most of her credibility for me. Several characters appeared and vanished or became very superficial and the political plot line was not realised fully.The villain gave up his secrets far too easily and his ending was, as I say above, very predictable and a complete cop-out by the writer. He tried to create suspense by dragging the ending out but it was too obvious and so there was no suspense - just irritation and feeling of "why don't you get on with it".All very disappointing.Having said all that, I recognise that I am one of the few who did not think much of this book. Most other reviewers are far more positive about it than I am. So I will try another Alan Glynn book and maybe I will be converted. less

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