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Title: Quoth the Raven

Subtitle: The Gregor Demarkian Holiday Mysteries, Book 4

Author: Jane Haddam

Narrator: David Colacci

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-16

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Since Father Tibor Kasparian escaped the Soviet Union, he has done his best to keep his philosophy to himself - not out of fear, but because he knows that few people could stomach an honest account of life under Stalinism. When he gets an invitation to spend a semester teaching philosophy at Independence College, Kasparian hesitates, but his friend Gregor Demarkian, a former FBI investigator, convinces him to accept. They will both wish he had decided to stay away. But on Halloween when the hated professor Donegal Steele vanishes and his secretary turns up dead, Demarkian will have to do his homework to ensure Kasparian isn't the next victim.

Members Reviews:

Four passages from "Quoth the Raven" that show why Jane Haddam is one of my favorites

Even though this is not my favorite novel by Jane Haddam, it is still excellent. Jane Haddam writes not just a mystery novel; she writes as essay on philosophy in order to make her readers think about their own lives and the world they live in through stories about fictional characters.

Quoth The Raven (review passages)

Passage 1

Those were the days before heâor anyone elseârealized that the man who murdered thirty young women with an ice pick and a cheese board wasnât an anomaly, but the representative of a class. Gregor thought he had been on the job with the new department for five years before it hit him that that class was not only vast, but growing. Somehow or other, this society seemed to be breeding a prolific race of the morally dead.

Passage 2

âThe mistake youâre making,â he told Tibor, âis the same one I made up until a couple of hours ago. People invest their lives in all sorts of things that may seem silly to you or me, but mostly what they invest them in is their own image of themselves. We construct identities like houses and then we live in them. If someone comes along and threatens to burn the house down, we react.â

Passage 3

Next to him, Father Tibor Kasparian trudged along with his hands wrapped into the folds of his cassock, looking infinitely tired. Gregor knew Tibor had been brought up among psychopathsâraised by them, really, except in the tight protective womb of his unshakably religious familyâbut he hadnât expected Tibor to be taken like this by what had happened here. He thought he might have read Tiborâs psychology exactly backward, the way he had once tried to read words in a mirror when he was a boy and pretending to fight crimes with magic superpowers, like Spider Man. After all, what they were dealing with here was not a psychopath, but an ordinary human being who had invested too much in superficialities and too little in inner strength. It hadnât occurred to Gregor that Tibor might find that worse than the prospect of a man who had decided to play out the fantasies of Stalin and Hitler in private life.

He put his hand on the priestâs shoulder and said,âTibor? Are you all right?â

âI am fine, Krekor,â Tibor said. âI am thinking. You are very sure you have this set up exactly right?â

âI think so, Tibor, yes. I have it set up the only way I think it will work.â

âIt seems like a very large chance, Krekor. You are counting onââ

âOn guilt,â Gregor said simply.

âYes. On guilt. But Krekor, I am not sure, in this case, if guilt applies.