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Fallen Idols |  | Author: Neil White
Publisher: AVON, a division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 35465
Media: Paperback
Pages: 528
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.3 x 1.5
ISBN: 1847560075
EAN: 9781847560070
ASIN: 1847560075
Publication Date: July 2, 2007
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 Read from cover to cover in one go - that good! April 29, 2008
SJSmith (UK)
14 out of 19 found this review helpful
I read this all day yesterday and I loved it. I couldn't go to work because of a bad back and this kept me occupied. I read it whilst I was sitting down and also whilst I was walking around the room to stretch my back! This kept me happy all day. So that's why I read it but what happens?
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br /The back of the book is well presented with the who, what, why, where, when and how scenario - literally listed. It's short and to the point, much better than a paragraph. Henri Dumas is a premiership football player and the novel starts with him being killed in cold blood in the street. There are two estate agents also murdered in a nearby flat, why? This is the start of the novel and it just gets better and better. Meet the two main characters - Jack Garrett a reporter with a good friend in DC Laura McGanity, a single mother who has her own share of difficulties in a man's world organising child care etc.
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br /The novel takes you through a variety of places in the United Kingdom (at alarming paces it has to be said!) with a variety of murders and events. It's fast but without you realising it. The plot is tremendous, the killer is superb and there are a couple of twists along the way that you may or may not see coming. I didn't see them all and even the ones I did see I was excited about them. It does get gruesome and in one particular place especially - of course with it being a crime/mystery/thriller novel and plot details spoil it so I won't share the information.
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br /I felt over the course of the 500 pages that I really got to know all of the characters, although I wasn't sure about the two from Scotland Yard. I didn't feel they were fully described but don't come into it until later. I often feel disheartened when I pick up a lengthier novel but this has good print size and reasonable length chapters so you end up flying through it. I'm amazed this is a debut novel, I only hope he is able to sustain this level of writing in his next book out this year. There are two chapters of it in the back of 'Fallen Idols' which I didn't read as I can never read extracts for some reason.
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br /This was a novel chosen by a friend for my book group and I loved it. I would've come across it anyway as I like this genre and often follow her recommendations. Regardless of that, I'm really pleased I read it. It was superb and passed away the day for me.
Page Turner! August 2, 2007
Ants
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Jim Stick 008 is quite correct; if you buy this book thinking it's about footballers then you will be sorely disappointed. However, if you buy it because you want a damn good crime novel with twists and turns throughout and a plot that keeps you guessing right until the end then this is the book for you.
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Fallen Idols August 3, 2007
M. Vaughton (Burnley UK)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I would describe this book as a brilliant crime thriller, it came recommended to me and having read it I can understand why. I read it cover to cover in two days, could not put it down. I am a big fan of Mark Billingham and Karin Slaughter and this author is right up there with them. A definate for all cime novel readers. A great novel for a new crime writer and having read the first two chapters of the new book (at the back of Fallen Idols) I cannot wait for the new book to come out.
unputdownable! August 3, 2007
Lyndsey Molloy (Lancashire)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book was recommended to me by a colleague as he knew that i would like it, i read on average 3 or 4 books a week depending on how good they are which depends on how long it takes me to read them! i finished this book in one night i could not put it down, everytime i wanted to stop reading something else would happen in the plot that made me carry on reading, before i knew it i had finished the whole thing. i read a variety of books from lots of different authors but crime is my favourite and this book is definately up there with the best i have read. i will most certainly be passing this book on and have already bought the next one!
Very gripping thriller June 27, 2008
crime reader (UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great book, I loved it. It's got lots of twists and turns in it to keep you guessing and is absolutely enthralling. I liked the characters, found them interesting and well portrayed, and the story gripping. didn't want to put it down. Just bought his latest book and can't wait to read that.
br / The comment by one other reviewer who complains about the lack of football detail is true but who cares? It's a crime novel which is totally obvious from the blurb on the cover, not a book about football.
br / I would highly recommend it.
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