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Title: Cemetery Road
Author: Gar Anthony Haywood
Narrator: J. D. Jackson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-03-11
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 8 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
Gar Anthony Haywood is the critically acclaimed author of the Aaron Gunner series, which includes the Los Angeles Times best-selling All the Lucky Ones Are Dead.
Cemetery Road is a riveting standalone thriller that follows Errol Handy White, a man whose past has come back to haunt him. Years ago, Handy left his life as a Los Angeles thief behind; now he lays low in the Twin Cities. But when he hears that his old friend R. J. Burrows has been murdered, Handy must return to L.A. for the funeral - and face a terrible secret.
Members Reviews:
The plot is taught like a high wire act
This is an achievement in the form. It is difficult to overrate it as a piece of quick-reading detective fiction. In order to avoid waxing poetic, I will boil down my criticisms, positive though they may be.
The characters are developed slowly, their complexities and hidden natures yielding secrets that are believable, surprising, and dark, as well as light, as the novel unfolds.
The plot is taught like a high wire act, with as much suspense, as you build to a crescendo and then clean up the mess left after.
The quality of the writing is beyond what one expects in the genre. The prose begins in a poetic timber that feels deeply voiced and highly thoughtful. It itself gives a clue to not only the thoughtfulness of the protagonist in this first-person work, but also the capabilities of the author.
There are no unbelievable fight scenes in which beer bellied and over the hill gumshoes overcome three attackers half his age. Physical confrontations are usually embarrassing and clumsy, like real life.
Finally, it will take you into a different world than the usual hard boiled detective novel stock.
If you like the genre, then this needs to be on your reading list.
Time to stop running?
Handy White is good at fixing things. Close to fifty, he owns a repair shop in St. Paul, Minnesota. His specialty: bringing obsolete junk back to life. But as far as his own life goes, he left it behind in LA thirty years ago.
Handy and his two best friends did something terrible way back when. Now one of them has been murdered. Are the other two next? Is the past catching up with them? When Handy returns to LA for his friend's funeral, he decides to find the killer, and determine exactly what's going on.
Gar Anthony Haywood's portrayal of the three friends is vivid. We get to know them well as young black men, "brash, foolish and drunk with the power of youth." And we see them as middle aged men, each dealing very differently with guilt. Although Handy turns out to be a pretty good investigator, he goes in wrong directions, and violence breaks out all around him. Nothing turns out as you might expect.
The narration switches between past and present, sometimes breaking off at a horribly tense moment. I suffered agonies right along with the characters. But Haywood is an accomplished writer and pulled me through. As a prose stylist Haywood is both elegant and gritty, witty and compassionate.
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Errol "Handy" White has a terrible secret. It is one he and his two friends have kept for twenty six years, one resulting from a robbery gone bad. A secret so terrible, the three young men agree to never see each other again for fear of being found out. To ensure this pact, Handy sets off to start a new life in Minnesota, leaving Los Angeles - along with R.J.
