The boy : a novel / Tami Hoag.
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- ISBN: 9781101985403
- ISBN: 1101985402
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Dutton, [2018]
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Genre: | Suspense fiction. Mystery fiction. Electronic books. Thrillers (Fiction) Fiction. |
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2018 December #2
Louisiana cops Annie Broussard and Nick Fourcade, whom readers last met in 1997's A Thin Dark Line, return in another cleverly plotted, atmospheric mystery. A young boy has been savagely murdered. His mother somehow escapes the same fate; covered in blood, she turns up at a neighboring house begging for help. While Nick takes charge of the grisly crime scene, Annie is at the hospital with the mother, and it isn't long before doubts start to accumulate: Why is there nothing to indicate that the murderer broke into the house? Why would someone butcher the boy but leave the mother unharmed? Why does the mother's story feel wrong? The day after the murder, the boy's 12-year-old babysitter goes missing. An unrelated crime? Or something far more sinister? Hoag puts on quite the juggling act here, dazzling us with multiple theories about the boy's murder, numerous potential suspects, and plot twists that keep us just slightly off-balance. A welcome return for a compelling investigative duo. Copyright 2018 Booklist Reviews. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2017 February #2
Though it's a stand-alone, this new novel stars detectives Nick Fourcade and Annie Broussard of Hoag's A Thin Dark Line (1997). They're investigating a break-in that has left Genevieve Gauthier's seven-year-old son dead but Genevieve inexplicably unharmed. Why would the murderer leave any witnesses? Why does the boy's 13-year-old babysitter vanish the next day? Hoag's last three hardcovers all debuted in the top ten of the New York Times best sellers list.
Copyright 2017 Library Journal. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2017 July #1
Though it's a stand-alone, this new novel stars detectives Nick Fourcade and Annie Broussard of Hoag's A Thin Dark Line (1997). They're investigating a break-in at the home of Genevieve Gauthier that has left her seven-year-old son dead but Genevieve inexplicably unharmed. Why would the murderer leave any witnesses? Why does the boy's 13-year-old babysitter vanish the next day? Is Genevieve victim or perpetrator? Expect lots; Hoag's last three hardcovers all debuted in the top ten of the New York Times best sellers list. Originally scheduled for July 2017.
Copyright 2017 Library Journal. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2018 July #1
In this stand-alone, detectives Nick Fourcade and Annie Broussard are investigating a break-in at the home of Genevieve Gauthier that has left her seven-year-old son dead but Genevieve inexplicably unharmed. Why would the murderer leave any witnesses? Why does the boy's 13-year-old babysitter vanish the next day? Is Genevieve victim or perpetrator? Rescheduled from July 2017 and December 2017.
Copyright 2018 Library Journal. - PW Annex Reviews : Publishers Weekly Annex Reviews
Early in bestseller Hoag's thoughtful, character-driven sequel to 1998's
Copyright 2018 Publishers Weekly Annex.A Thin Dark Line , Nick Fourcade, a detective with the Bayou Breaux, La., police department, arrives at "a small, sad rectangle of cheap siding and asphalt shingles squatting on concrete block pilings in a yard of dirt and weeds." Inside is the body of seven-year-old KJ Gauthier. The boy, dressed in Spider-Man pajamas, is lying in a pool of blood in his bedroom, stabbed some 10 times in the chest and face. His 27-year-old mother, Genevieve, escaped from the assailant and is in the hospital being questioned by Nick's wife and fellow detective, Annie Broussard. The detectives wonder: Why kill the boy and let a witness go? The subsequent disappearance of 12-year-old Nora Florette, KJ's babysitter, gives the members of the small community of Bayou Breaux even more reason to be fearful. Meanwhile, tension between Nick and the new sheriff of Partout Parish, Kelvin Dutrow, "an outsider, a usurper; too stiff, too arrogant, too brash," complicates the investigation. Hoag keeps the twists and turns coming all the way to the shocking conclusion.Agent: Andrea Cirillo, Jane Rotrosen Agency. (Dec.)