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Chargement... The Last Kind Wordspar Tom Piccirilli
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) skipstern | Jul 11, 2021 |   ) stephanie_M | Apr 30, 2020 | The main character in the novel, Terrier Rand, absent and out of touch away from the family for over five years, has been requested to come home at the request of his spree-killer brother, currently on death row. The Rand family consists of a group of interesting characters, from that of a traditional, care giving matriarch, to a rebelling younger sister and a pair of trouble making uncles, all of which add layers to the story. Throughout the novel, Pickirilli sprinkles in a wide variety of characters to move the story along. This is the first Tom Piccirilli novel I have read and the first involving the Rand family, with The Last Whisper in the Dark being a follow up involving Terry Rand. The Last Kind Words is a solid novel with interesting characters, an interesting plot and side plots. Characters in the novel also did not feel like their roles were created just to the move the story along, but to engage the reader in a way to build concern for the fictional character. Highly recommended. ( ) EricEllis | Sep 2, 2017 | Yup, it starts out great, the estranged brother is summoned to Death Row, where his older brother awaits execution for a horrific series of seeming senseless murders which he readily admits to committing. All except for one. Is there another killer on the loose? A killer that no one is even looking for? Sounds interesting, yes? Well, it's all downhill from there. Make a sandwich and turn on the TV, cause there's nothing happening here! Sorry to be so negative, but I'm getting tired of book jackets that promise you mystery and suspense, but give you some deep, psychological mumbo jumbo that only the author understands. (  ) baggman | Feb 11, 2016 | ) zoomball | Nov 23, 2013 |
In Piccirilli’s new book, a New York burglar gone straight named Terry Rand has a brother, Collie, who is about to be executed for killing eight people in a one-night spree. Collie tells Terry he didn’t kill one of the eight, an attractive brunette teenager. An unknown person did it, someone who has since killed other young brunettes. Collie asks Terry to trace the unknown killer. The obvious comparison, in characterizing Piccirilli’s book, is with Dennis Lehane. Piccirilli tells a layered family saga much the way Lehane does in his masterpiece, Mystic River. Piccirilli packs in more violence, but he resembles Lehane in his fascination with twisted family dynamics.  Sure, the plot sounds ridiculous — but the characters have strong voices and bristle with funny quirks. Appartient à la sérieTerrier Rand (1) Prix et récompenses
Fiction.
Literature.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:From award-winning author Tom Piccirilli comes what Lee Child calls “perfect crime fiction,” a wholly original novel introducing the Rands, a vipers’ nest of crooks and cons, one generation stealing from the next. Upon the razor-thin edge between love and violence lives a pair of brothers, their bonds frayed by betrayals and guilt, their loyalty to each other their last salvation. Raised to pick a pocket before he could walk, Terry Rand cut free from his family after his older brother, Collie, went on a senseless killing spree that left eight dead. Five years later, only days before his scheduled execution, Collie contacts Terry and asks him to return home. Collie claims he wasn’t responsible for one of the murders—and insists that the real killer is still on the loose. Dogged by his own demons, Terry is swept back into the schemes and scams of his family: His father, Pinsch, a retired cat burglar, brokenhearted because of his two sons. His card-sharp uncles, Mal and Grey, who’ve incurred the anger of the local mob. His grandfather, Shep, whose mind is failing but whose fingers can still slip out a wallet from across the room. His teenage sister, Dale, who’s flirting dangerously with the lure of the family business. And Kimmie, the woman Terry abandoned, who’s now raising a child with Terry’s former best friend. Terry pieces together the day his brother turned rabid, delving into a blood history that reveals the Rand family tree is rotten to the roots, and the secrets his ancestors buried are now coming furious and vengeful to the surface. A meditation on how love can confine a person just as easily as it can free him, juxtaposing shocking violence and sly humor, The Last Kind Words is the brilliantly inventive family saga that only a singular talent like Tom Piccirilli could conjure. Includes a preview of Tom Piccirilli’s next book, The Last Whisper in the Dark. Praise for The Last Kind Words “A crime noir mystery as hard-boiled as any in recent memory, recalling the work of Chandler, Pelecanos and Connelly . . . Readers literally will be pinned to their seats until the last page is turned.”—Bookreporter “At once a dark and brooding page-turner and a heartfelt tale about the ties that bind.”—Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Heartbroken “[A] caustic thriller . . . The characters have strong voices and bristle with funny quirks.”—The New York Times Book Review “[Piccirilli] deserves a breakout novel, and this just might be it.”—Booklist (starred review.) Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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