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The Girl Next Door (2012)

by Brad Parks(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

031266768X (ISBN13: 9780312667689)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Minotaur Books

series

Carter Ross Mystery

review 1: I got this book through a Good Reads giveaway. I had never read any books by Brad Parks, but found this book to be a light, pleasant read. His writing style kind of reminds me of Janet Evanovich and the location is the same, New Jersey. This is no deep, convoluted mystery, though, if that's what you are looking for. I'd suggest this for a plane ride or just something that you can read without needing to do a lot of deep thinking! I had figured out Who-dun-it pretty close to the beginning, but that didn't make the book a failure in my mind. I enjoyed his funny style and the larger than life characters. I will probably go back and read some other Brad Parks when I'm on vacation.
review 2: This book had a great opening line. From there on it was all downhill. I ... moreloved the premise and was very excited to read it, but after a few pages I struggled to force myself through it. I have never read a "mystery" book that was so predictable. The characters were all stereotypical and uninteresting, and I think even the most unskilled reader could predict who the killer was almost immediately. I kept hoping maybe I was wrong and that there would be a plot twist to save the book, but unfortunately that wasn't the case and by the time I finished the last page I no longer cared who did it, or even why (which is only explained very thinnly anyway) I was just glad to be done. less

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