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Shadows Still Remain

A Novel

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“A killer of a thriller with a wonderfully human, perfectly rendered heroine at its center….A terrific read.”
—Dennis Lehane, author of Shutter Island and The Given Day

“First-rate crime fiction.”

—Washington Post (a Best Book of the Year)

The raves keep pouring in for #1 New York Times bestselling author Peter De Jong’s Shadows Still Remain. James Patterson calls it, “An absolute knockout and a half,” and praises De Jong’s fascinating, endearing, but seriously flawed heroine, NYPD Detective Darlene O’Hara, as, “One of the freshest, hippest detective creations in many a year.” Every fan of serious crime fiction will agree that this author is a major find.

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It’s written in the present tense, which is unsettling and the writing isn’t anywhere near skilful enough to carry such a stylistic trick. It just reads like a child’s essay. The main character behaves oddly, as if the writer loses energy and lets her periodically wash up drunk or tired. Very little propels the action forward and nothing really puts a rocket under the heroine either. The police procedure aspects feel weak and inauthentic. The writer relies on sketchy characterisation which doesn’t feel authentic. She drinks a lot, often, and her drinking ( like her godawful taste in music) is offered as a insightful character trait. Women, including the main character, are often described as ‘beautiful’. Which presumably works perfectly well for male writers and readers. Do men even read crime fiction? The motivations of many characters remain a mystery to the end. There are sly authorial digs which stereotype to the point almost of racism and sexism. The subject matter is unpleasant and not handled sensitively or with any empathy or understanding of the crimes described. It feels gratuitous, exploitative and nasty. There are weird little plot holes. I felt like washing my ears by the end. I wouldn’t if I were you.

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