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Matthew F. Jones

Autor von A Single Shot

6 Werke 271 Mitglieder 25 Rezensionen

Werke von Matthew F. Jones

A Single Shot (1996) — Autor — 160 Exemplare
Boot Tracks (2006) 30 Exemplare
Deepwater: A Novel (1999) 22 Exemplare
The Cooter Farm: A Novel (1992) — Autor — 21 Exemplare
Blind Pursuit (1997) 18 Exemplare

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A dark book that follows the plight of the unfortunate, impoverished hunter John Moon. Reeling from his divorce from his ancestral home and estrangement from his wife and young son, he wounds a buck and tracks it into a canyon to finish it off, accidentally shooting a runaway girl, who has a major stash of cash. Panicked, Moon hides the body and takes the cash. The girl's sadistic boy friend has other ideas, playing a cat and mouse game with John for a week in a backwoods town. Gritty, but author Thompson does an excellent job making the readers empathize with all of John's bad decisions.… (mehr)
 
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skipstern | 19 weitere Rezensionen | Jul 11, 2021 |
As eight-year-old Jennifer Follett sits on a bench at the foot of her family's driveway waiting for her schoolbus, a black sedan pulls up to the child and she gets in the willingly gets in the car. Just that quickly Jennifer vanishes although the scene was witnessed by a 12-year-old boy who was playing hookey from school. Jennifer's parents are summoned from their jobs in the city by the nanny and none of them have any idea who might have been in the black car. The police, working from the scant description given by the witness, settle on a couple who live fairly close to the Folletts, the Sandovals. Jennifer had been in Mrs. Sandoval's Sunday school class and had once been to their home for a horseback ride. Delving into the Sandoval's past, the police learn that the seemingly perfect couple just might not be who they claim to be. Gerald Sandoval is quite possibly a serial killer.

The only good thing I can say about this book is that it is finally off my TBR. The dialogue is horrible - no one talks like that. Sentence after sentence of halting words in the order of "we ne - must find out - learn who mi - the culprit could be and wh - for what possible reas - cause would they ta - kidnap our ch - daughter." Oof. The bad guys are beyond bad, definitely despicable and disgusting. The suspense element wasn't bad but, on the whole, a terrible waste of time. Looking at the reviews on Amazon it is definitely a love it or hate it book, receiving either 5's or 1's.
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Ellen_R | Jan 15, 2016 |
Gripping and disturbing. Grabs you by the throat and throws you down a deep well.
 
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smasler | 19 weitere Rezensionen | Aug 6, 2014 |
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If, somehow, Quentin Tarantino and Dostoevsky were to combine their efforts and write a piece of southern fiction...this might just be the result. A well-paced and disturbing read, this novel follows in the footsteps of the darker southern and Appalachian works by Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Ron Rash among others.

Jones' main character, John Moon, is as believable as he is heartbreaking and frightening, and the narrative itself is nearly a carnival of grotesqueries. In the end, the tale's simplicity makes it all the more disturbing, and People Magazine's note that the book is part Crime and Punishment, and part Deliverance, is as on-target as any blurb I've ever seen. This is a fast and dark novel, and well worth the read.

On the other hand, readers be aware: much as you'll think it can't keep getting darker, and much as you might think that Woodrell's foreword exaggerates the disturbing nature of so much that's included....it will keep getting darker, and you will keep being surprised.

Wonderfully wonderfully dark, and one of the few non-supernatural fictions that I still might be tempted to describe as fitting into the horror genre.
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whitewavedarling | 19 weitere Rezensionen | Jun 9, 2013 |

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