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The Secret Friend | 
 enlarge | Author: Chris Mooney
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 5132
Media: Paperback
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0141030879
EAN: 9780141030876
ASIN: 0141030879
Publication Date: July 21, 2008 (New: This Week)
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Another case for CSI Darby McCormick July 20, 2008
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
The author was born and raised in Lynn, Massachusetts and attended college at the University of new Hampshire and in his own words "tried to study, of all things computer science" and was less than successful at it. He quickly switched his major to English with the emphasis on creative writing. He now lives just outside Boston with his wife and son and is at work on his second novel in the Darby McCormick series.
This is my second Chris Mooney book, the first being The Missing, a book I enjoyed enormously. Modern crime fiction is not the first section I would reach for on the book shelves, but I am wise enough to know that for many reader's it would almost always be their first choice. However like anything else if it is done well, it makes all the difference and as I have already said although I am by no means an authority on what constitutes a good crime novel, I do know what I like and I enjoy Chris Mooney's writing style and also his lead character Darby McCormick, who had stayed in the memory from the previous book The Missing.
In this type of novel it is all too easy to throw in everything but the kitchen sink, i.e. blood, guts, sex, gratuitous violence etc. All these ingredients would seem to be totally necessary to the author if the book is to mirror real life and yes it would be difficult to write a book like this without including several if not all of the above, but the author seems to know when and where to draw the line and that is one of the things that endears me about his writing style.
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