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Osso A Osso (2008)

by Carol O'Connell(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

9722040162 (ISBN13: 9789722040167)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Dom Quixote

review 1: It's rare that I read a mystery, and even more rare that I like it. This book isn't quite a unicorn--it took about 50 pages to really get into the story and start caring about the characters--but it's pretty special. There are almost too many characters, we seem to know every person in the small town of Coventry, and even now I don't quite have them all straight. But once we got acquainted, as soon as it started to matter that Josh was a sweet little boy, that his brother Oren's life effectively ended on the day Josh died; most of all when we realize that a lot of people know a lot of things that they've never said aloud, and for all the wrong reasons; I couldn't put it down. For real. I'm supposed to have been in bed an hour ago.Even Belle's over the top physical assaults... more on Oren make sense once they're explained. The whole small town quirkiness wasn't working for me, but O'Connell pulled it out. She did everything I hate about mysteries and did it so well that I couldn't get enough. The plot fell together with very little deliberate stretching and while I was disappointed in the ending, it was the disappointment of reality--knowing that children have certainly died for less. Considering Josh Hobbs has been dead 20 years when the story starts, O'Connell does an amazing job of making us feel like we knew him, and what his family has been feeling since he's been gone. What they'll always feel as their lives go on without him, the mystery solved but Josh no more alive for it.
review 2: This book hooked me from beginning to end. I read the audio version, which may make a difference. The characters were very believable and so were the situations, once you understood the placement. Oren left home twenty years ago after his brother Josh failed to return from the woods surrounding their home. With allegations and accusations flying that Oren may have had a hand in Josh's disappearance, the Judge decides to send Oren far from the trouble at hand. By the time Oren returns to Coventry, which is in itself a rather messed up town of criminals and misfits, Hannah, the housekeeper is ill, the Judge is having strange dreams and Josh is coming home, bone by bone. The skull is the first bone that shows up with Oren's arrival. Having built a career as the best CID agent in the army, Oren sets out to find out the truth about his brother's disappearance. The whole town could have done it, but the ending is a great surprise. I enjoyed the CID agent sent to investigate the sheriff, Josh's disappearance and Oren. She was not what I would have expected for this character, but she was so funny and on cue that I couldn't help adore her less

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