A Thin Dark Line by Tami Hoag Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of A Thin Dark Line
Book Review: Another Hoag winner
Summary: 5 Stars
A Thin Dark Line returns to the French Triangle, the setting of two earlier books, Lucky's Lady and Cry Wolf. Those of you who have not already read Cry Wolf may want to read it before reading Thin Dark Line as the killer and the victims in Cry Wolf are revealed in Thin Dark Line.A few years after the Bayou Strangler's reign of terror is ended, Bayou Breaux again terrorized by a killer. After a prominent businesswoman's mutilated body is found, her accused stalker is investigated and arrested for the murder. Charges of corruption in the Sheriff's Office, tainted evidence, and a legal technicality set Marcus Renard free. Renard now focuses his obsession on Sheriff's Deputy Annie Broussard, the officer who found the body. Broussard feels an obligation to the murdered woman, and to the woman's child, to find and punish her killer.
Deciding to use Renard's obsession to get close enough to him to prove his guilt, Annie is caught in a dangerous crossfire. Her only ally is Detective Nick Fourcade, a rogue cop with a reputation of corruption and violence. Annie can't be sure if Fourcade is helping her or using her, since it was his investigation, his evidence, and his mistake that allowed a brutal murderer go free. Fourcade's only hope of redeeming himself and his reputation is in the hands of the woman most likely to die next.
Book Review: Another excellent book by Tami Hoag
Summary: 5 Stars
Great story, great characters, what more can I say?Book Review: Another great book
Summary: 5 Stars
She can write anything. She has never failed to suceed at what she turns her hand to. This book i no exception. There is little i can say about Tami Hoag that i have not already said. I adore her writing style, i adore her beautiful character development and creation, i absolutely love her plots, and i love the fact that these are nice big book which i can really get mt teeth into.
Not only does she make it a crime novel, she makes it a people novel. It is a book about the characters, and how everything is affecting them. The personal issues they have to face, the inner conflicts, the outer conflicts with other people, and self discovery. She writes about events in such a compelling way. Adds simple, realistic things into the plot, and that is what makes her stand out. Her characters and situations in which they are in are always so very real, realistic, and vivid. She cannot be faulted. (i.e. the emotion and tough decision Annie faces and has to make when confronted with what to do when she finds Nick in the parking lot with the suspect. It is Hoags exploration into these sorts of events which make her brilliant.)
The plot here is great, chilling and strangely haunting. The setting is evoked well, and adds something to the mystery. (However, i must warn you that this book is set in the same place as her previous "Cry Wolf", and as such the killer in that book is disclosed here. I made the mistake of reading this one first.) The solution is also really unexpected.
You can't praise her enough. This isn't her best book, but it still gets five stars. I can say that of very few authors.
Book Review: Better than Cornwell
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a new Tami Hoag reader and I thought this book was sensational! Her books are better researched and written than Patricia Cornwell's or Kathy Riechs...this was a brilliant book that I couldn't put down, just like Ashes to Ashes. I am looking forward to her next one!Book Review: Cajun Proud
Summary: 3 Stars
The story by itself is good. However the Cajun setting and dialog was overdone and not always accurate. I have lived in Acadiana for a very long time and I enjoy reading books set in this region. A Thin Dark Line is not one of them. I had to put the book down too often and take a deep breath and cool off before picking it up to read again. I am sure that Miss Hoag meant no disrepect to our culture, but I found her portrayal of south Louisiana offensive. It seemed like an imitation of a James Burke Dave Robichaux novel .