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Twenty-Seven Bones
Twenty-Seven Bones
Twenty-Seven Bones
Audiobook9 hours

Twenty-Seven Bones

Written by Jonathan Nasaw

Narrated by Dion Graham

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

3.5/5

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In the tradition of James Patterson and Thomas Harris, critically acclaimed author Jonathan Nasaw crafts taut thrillers that are sometimes shocking and always engrossing. A provocative and chilling tale, Twenty-Seven Bones is Nasaw's most accomplished work yet. FBI Special Agent E.L. Pender is bored with retirement and jumps at the chance to track down a lethal husband and wife serial killer team. But as the body count rises, Pender's frustration intensifies.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 11, 2008
ISBN9781440799013
Author

Jonathan Nasaw

Jonathan Nasaw is the acclaimed author of Fear Itself and The Girls He Adored, both Literary Guild Selections. He lives in Pacific Grove, California.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Ex-FBI agent Pender is tired of golf after just four months of retirement when an old police friend asks for his help to solve a series of murders in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Until then, the fictional island of St. Luke didn't even know they had a serial killer on their hands. When a hurricane unearthed two bodies with missing right hands, just like a girl who was found two years previously, the police track the killer but don't inform the public.Husband and wife anthropologist team Phil and Emily Epp are weird serial killers. While spending time with a culture that believed a person could absorb a person's soul by sucking in their dying breath, Emily accidentally inhales a tribal leader's last breath. She and Phil, along with the tribal leader's son, go on a rampage, stealing dying breaths to prolong their own lives.There are several other plots intertwined in the story. The number of characters introduced at the beginning of the novel is a little overwhelming, but get easier to differentiate as the book goes on. Dion Graham does an excellent job with narration and various island accents.The library had taped a note to the cover stating, "This audiobook contains a great deal of graphic description and language." I didn't think anything of it because I've read plenty of graphic descriptions. However, on disk 2 a sex scene made me stop what I was doing and stare at the player! That set the bar and nothing else surprised me. But if you're squeamish, you might want to pass on this one.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Jonathan Nasaw is the author of Fear Itself and The Girls He Adored. Twenty-Seven Bones is the first book I’ve read of Nasaw’s. I, reading books from authors I’ve never read anything by before, seems to be happening a lot lately. I’m not sure why. But you never know what you might discover by expanding your horizons. So-to-speak.Anyway, back to the review. A good suspense/thriller keeps you wanting to read, on and on. I found this book to slow down every third or fourth chapter. This was very frustrating, because it was hard to get back into the book, after the slow periods. The characters were extremely well developed. Maybe, and I don’t say this to often, a little to developed. The book was not lacking detail, that’s for sure. So it’s no wonder it was 423 pages. The main thing, I liked about the book was the plot. It was different. Sure I’ve read serial killer books before, but I’m talking the whole religion/customs/voodoo, whatever you want to call it, surrounding the killers. Why they did, what they did.I am a huge fan of the Pendergast Series, written by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Twenty-Seven Bones was very similar to something Preston and Child would write
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    FBI Special Agent E.L. Pender has big retirement plans - to play as much golf as he can stand. Turns out he can stand a lot, which is why he jumps at the chance to track down a killer.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A great read and a real page turner