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The Intruders - Michael Marshall


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The Intruders - Michael Marshall

 
Description: ISBN 0007209975 / Author: Michael Marshall / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Newest Review: ... In the meantime, he gets a visit from someone in his past - Gary Fisher - who he was at school with. Jack finds the meeting ... more

 ... strange since he and Gary rarely crossed paths, but it soon because apparent Gary was hoping Jack would take on a case for him, using his previous skills as a police officer, but Jack decides not to take it on, but before long he finds he is drawn towards the case anyway, whether he liked it or not. Elsewhere, the same stranger who had killed the woman and her son previously approaches a young girl on a beach. Once he has approached her, she vanishes. Does this link in with Amy? As Jack begins to look int...more

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Crowned Review The Intruders - Michael Marshall: This doesn't intrude as much as I had hoped. (1188 words)
by - written on 03/09/08 (Very useful, 107 readings)
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The Intruders by Michael Marshall. ~ About the Author ~ I don't know much about this author, but I have found out he is English, lives in London and has written a number of different stories. He has also written some screenplays - including the BBC. Apparently film studios took up a couple of his stories, but I've no information about whether they were actually placed in to production. ~ Book Synopsis ~ To begin with we have the opening scenes of someone walking into a house, where a woman and her son are brutally murdered. We then get taken to the world of Jack Whalen who is an ex LAPD cop, now turned writer. We ...  Read the complete review

sparkymarky1973
Premium Review What lies buried beneath the surface won't stay there for lo ... (695 words)
by - written on 03/04/08 (3 readings)
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Ex LAPD cop, Jack Whalen, is struggling to put together a companion piece to the book of crime scene photographs he's just written when an old school friend turns up out of the blue seeking his help on a law case. Jack turns him down but soon after discovers his wife has gone missing whilst on a routine business trip to Seattle. Heading there with the intention of trying to locate her, Jack finds himself reluctantly getting drawn into his old school friend's problems despite himself when it turns out his wife is connected with a mysterious boarded up building that has to do with his friend's law case. A series of brutal slayings also has it's links and slowly ...  Read the complete review

 

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