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River Ghosts (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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From the author of The Widow's Son - a Kirkus Starred Review Literary Mystery:

Which is right: the eyewitness testimony of an eight-year-old boy or exculpatory DNA evidence?
Sixteen years after Richard Hill testified in court that he crouched under the kitchen tablecloth and saw Henry Clayton rape his white momma and murder her and his black poppa, a DNA swab earns the prisoner a pardon and his freedom. Returning to Red River Falls, Clayton claims that he has been reborn and offers to help Hill, now a patrol officer, identify who really killed his parents. Hill, who relives the family horrors every day, doesn't believe him. But how can he prove DNA evidence wrong? An ingrained distrust of everyone except Doria, the aunt who raised him, has led Hill to distance himself from his squad-car partner Jack Harter, and his mixed parentage has alienated him from members of both races. When he leans on radio reporter Sydney Brey for help, the search for truth puts Sydney on the railroad tracks as a train heads for her, leaves Auntie Doria bleeding on her bedroom floor and makes Hill the target of bands of good old boys with swastika tattoos. Ultimately, his childhood memories hold true but bring the disturbing possibility that the perfect science can be corrupted while racial enmity festers undercover.
The pseudonymous Robb, an attorney, writes with the chilling clarity of Alice Sebold. Read it and weep. (Kirkus starred review March 2008)


From ForeWord Magazine Reviews (May 2008) - Its frightening insight into the best and worst of men and their institutions, thoughtful intrigue, and superb attack upon preconceptions make River Ghosts a mystery devoid of coincidences or tidy endings, that will grip readers from the stunning opening to its powerful last page.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0089F5UEE
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
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  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 300 pagine
  • Numeri di pagina fonte ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1520183208
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olly
5,0 su 5 stelle Five Stars
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 1 aprile 2015
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Kept you interested in what was going on.
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WayneChicago
5,0 su 5 stelle River Ghosts is a literary novel worth your attention.
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 2 agosto 2011
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River Ghosts is a fictional novel by Chicagoland attorney Bruce Steinberg, under his pen name BR Robb. The plot is dynamic - a boy witnesses the murder of his parents from underneath a kitchen table - and must stand trial against the accused. Years later, when the boy becomes a police officer, the presumed killer is exonerated. The accused killer wants to meet the boy/officer.

This book is well-written and the story believable. The author has spent time in courtrooms and knows the nuances of the "players" in the theater that is a US court. It plays well in the book. This is not a courtroom drama--it would have been easy for the author to write a Twelve Angry Men take-off and stay in his comfort zone. But, in River Ghosts, the story is the people. The biracial police officer protagonist, and the wrongly (or is he wrongly?) accused murderer, Henry Clayton. The people of Red River Falls round out the story.

I recommend this novel for readers who look beyond just the story, beyond the mystery genre. This book is literary fiction, written with a flowing voice. Bountiful descriptions of place, time, the town and townsfolks, put the reader there. I, personally, enjoy literary fiction (Joyce Carole Oates, Cormac McCarthy, Ernest Hemingway, etc.) for its vivid imagery and character development. River Ghosts has all that, in spades. This novel is more Harper Lee than David Baldacci.

River Ghosts passage: "Poppa kept his face turned toward me, his eyes red and tearing. He shook his head when I began to lift the tablecloth and lean out. So I sat there, quiet as dust inside my make-believe fortress, and listened to the sounds of rape and murder, my muscles squeezing in on themselves and my bones to make my body disappear." If that doesn't make a reader want to get into this story, they need to be checked for a pulse!

River Ghosts is rife with passages written with utmost attention to editing and detail. Quality writing such as this is a pleasure to read. Most pulp writers would wallow in the gore of a story such as this one, but Robb emphasizes the characters; the tension is in the people, not in the gore.

I hope this wonderful work of fiction will become available in e-book format I hope, also, that Mr. Robb will write another book of a similar tone, with depth and meaning, that reads as smoothly and interestingly as the exceptional novel, River Ghosts. This novel would make for an intelligent and thought-provoking read for a book club. Highly recommended.
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Anne Veague
4,0 su 5 stelle The river is deep, and don't let "ghosts" in the title scare you away
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 28 settembre 2012
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Like its main character, River Ghosts has many quiet strengths and its author B.R. Robb has made some interesting choices as a writer and storyteller. He begins with the awful truth of what Officer Richard Hill witnessed as a boy, and we wonder what is left to be revealed, what will entice us to keep turning pages. Yet the pages move the reader: to deeper understandings of the indelibility of early experiences, to empathy with Hill's isolation, to full appreciation of how very carefully he must scrutinize everyone around him, and how tight his grip on himself must be. Even as layers of facts and evidence shift memory and conviction, you know you are on some kind of sure footing with Rich, aptly named because Robb has created him in such deep, rich tones. But he is only one of many strong characters drawn in full color with seemingly minimal strokes. (Everyone is going to want to spend some time in Auntie Doria's kitchen.) And I am not a little in awe of his choice (and his ability) to present characters full of despicable traits as multi-dimensional humans also bearing the burdens of formative life experiences. It is indeed a strength for a book so much about the worth of every human being to extend to racist characters the same decency it asks of them.

The story is told with a simplicity that belies its sophistication. You have to pay attention, interpret dialogue carefully. The more reflective, philosophical or lyrical passages provide a nice ebb to the rush of the plot's momentum, and can be quite beautiful.

If you are after a "ghost story", River Ghosts will only give you glimpses of the wisps and whispers that make their presence felt in our lives. The ghosts you will encounter will be the things we--and our predecessors--did or failed to do that increase the likelihood of evil acts occurring, and those are the truly frightening specters that haunt us.
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Mike O'D
4,0 su 5 stelle Sad Cop
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 7 febbraio 2013
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This was a good read despite the slightly uncomfortable feel passed on through the main character Officer Hill. He suffered a horrible trauma as a child and I'm not sure how acceptable he would have been as a law enforcement officer since he carried such heavy baggage. "Time heals", they say but it didn't seem to do a thing in Hill's case. He also seemed entirely obsessed with himself and his mixed race problems. Very difficult to like and since he is the main character it made the book a shade tough in places.
Despite this reader distancing, the writer shows great skill in building his characters, and with the right tale he could be dynamite.
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Nick Russell
3,0 su 5 stelle A good story
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This story of how a young boy who witnessed the brutal murders of his parents at the hands of racist grew up to be a man haunted by the past kept me reading right through to the end. The story bogged down a time or two along the way, and as other readers have commented, the constant angst over the main character's mixed race got old, but overall it was a good read. I'll be looking for more books by B.R. Robb.
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