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Title: The Empty Glass
Author: J. I. Baker
Narrator: Kirby Heyborne, Arielle DeLisle
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-17-12
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 12 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
In the early-morning hours of August 5, 1962, Los Angeles County deputy coroner Ben Fitzgerald arrives at the home of the world's most famous movie star, now lying dead in her bedroom, naked and still clutching a telephone. There he discovers The Book of Secrets - Marilyn Monroe's diary - revealing a doomed love affair with a man she refers to only as "The General". In the following days, Ben unravels a wide-ranging cover-up and some heartbreaking truths about the fragile, luminous woman behind the celebrity. Soon the sinister and surreal accounts in The Book of Secrets bleed into Ben's own life, and he finds himself, like Monroe, trapped in a deepening paranoid conspiracy.
The Empty Glass is an unforgettable combination of the riveting facts and legendary theories that have dogged Monroe, the Kennedys, the Mafia, and even the CIA for decades. It is an exciting debut from a remarkable new thriller writer.
Critic Reviews:
"James Ellroy fans will relish Baker's impressive first novel, a dark paranoid thriller...barbed prose makes a familiar story fresh. Fluent in the noir idiom, Baker maintains the depressing atmospherics throughout." (Publishers Weekly)
Members Reviews:
A SAD TALE OF AN "INCONVENIENT" WOMAN
The story begins with a narrator who is talking to an unknown person, probably a psychiatrist whom he keeps addressing as "you" or "Doc," and these events appear to be occurring at some future point in time.
We then move to the events of August 5, 1962, when Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her sparsely decorated adobe home. She was lying face down, clutching a phone.
In the following pages, we discover that there are time discrepancies; there are concerns about the position of the body and the unlikelihood that someone taking an overdose would be clutching a phone. There is an empty glass that is there...and then not there. A mysterious red diary appears...and then disappears.
Deputy Coroner Ben Fitzgerald is the primary narrator who is frustrated by the apparent cover-up. He is determined to find the answers.
But will his life be at risk as he struggles to learn the truth? Who are the enemies? The Mafia or others unknown? What do the police and even his boss at the Coroner's office have to hide, and why are they fighting his investigation? What lies and deceptions will trouble him in the days ahead?
From the recovered diary and mysterious tapes, our narrator eventually learns some of what transpired, but will it be too late? And how can he protect his young son?
The Empty Glasswas a captivating mix of fact and fiction that left me with more questions than answers. Told in an unusual narrative style that jumped around from the present to the past and then ahead to the future, I had a hard time making sense of it at times. 3.5 stars.
Okay but didn't grab me
I always enjoyed reading stories of Marilyn Monroe but I found this book hard to follow at first. I know it was filled with fact based story lines, so it made for some interesting reading but I was anxious to finish it and read something else.
Convoluted
I did read this book to the end hoping it would get better. I normally love to read anything about Marilyn Monroe but I found this book to be very convoluted and confusing.
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Title: The Empty Glass
Author: J. I. Baker
Narrator: Kirby Heyborne, Arielle DeLisle
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-17-12
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 12 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
In the early-morning hours of August 5, 1962, Los Angeles County deputy coroner Ben Fitzgerald arrives at the home of the world's most famous movie star, now lying dead in her bedroom, naked and still clutching a telephone. There he discovers The Book of Secrets - Marilyn Monroe's diary - revealing a doomed love affair with a man she refers to only as "The General". In the following days, Ben unravels a wide-ranging cover-up and some heartbreaking truths about the fragile, luminous woman behind the celebrity. Soon the sinister and surreal accounts in The Book of Secrets bleed into Ben's own life, and he finds himself, like Monroe, trapped in a deepening paranoid conspiracy.
The Empty Glass is an unforgettable combination of the riveting facts and legendary theories that have dogged Monroe, the Kennedys, the Mafia, and even the CIA for decades. It is an exciting debut from a remarkable new thriller writer.
Critic Reviews:
"James Ellroy fans will relish Baker's impressive first novel, a dark paranoid thriller...barbed prose makes a familiar story fresh. Fluent in the noir idiom, Baker maintains the depressing atmospherics throughout." (Publishers Weekly)
Members Reviews:
A SAD TALE OF AN "INCONVENIENT" WOMAN
The story begins with a narrator who is talking to an unknown person, probably a psychiatrist whom he keeps addressing as "you" or "Doc," and these events appear to be occurring at some future point in time.
We then move to the events of August 5, 1962, when Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her sparsely decorated adobe home. She was lying face down, clutching a phone.
In the following pages, we discover that there are time discrepancies; there are concerns about the position of the body and the unlikelihood that someone taking an overdose would be clutching a phone. There is an empty glass that is there...and then not there. A mysterious red diary appears...and then disappears.
Deputy Coroner Ben Fitzgerald is the primary narrator who is frustrated by the apparent cover-up. He is determined to find the answers.
But will his life be at risk as he struggles to learn the truth? Who are the enemies? The Mafia or others unknown? What do the police and even his boss at the Coroner's office have to hide, and why are they fighting his investigation? What lies and deceptions will trouble him in the days ahead?
From the recovered diary and mysterious tapes, our narrator eventually learns some of what transpired, but will it be too late? And how can he protect his young son?
The Empty Glasswas a captivating mix of fact and fiction that left me with more questions than answers. Told in an unusual narrative style that jumped around from the present to the past and then ahead to the future, I had a hard time making sense of it at times. 3.5 stars.
Okay but didn't grab me
I always enjoyed reading stories of Marilyn Monroe but I found this book hard to follow at first. I know it was filled with fact based story lines, so it made for some interesting reading but I was anxious to finish it and read something else.
Convoluted
I did read this book to the end hoping it would get better. I normally love to read anything about Marilyn Monroe but I found this book to be very convoluted and confusing.