The Life We Bury
by:
Allen Eskens (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781616149987 (1616149981)
ASIN: 1616149981
Pages no: 300
Edition language: English
My friend Kim gifted me this book and she obviously knows my taste as I really enjoyed it. While I've seen some online reference to this book being a thriller, I would consider this more of a mystery. There are some twists but nothing truly shocking and the story is more about putting puzzle piece...
"The Life We Bury" is a rare thing: a thoughtful, well-written novel, with a main character who has some depth, wrapped around a satisfying mystery, that delivers an emotional punch as well as moments of tense drama. It's also a perfect audiobook. A story told directly to the reader by the main ch...
I've always enjoyed a good mystery novel, and I found this one to be enjoyable on many levels. It's a heart-pounding page-turner, with complex, fully-developed main characters, and Eskens has moments of stunning prose. I knew I would like this book from the well-crafted opening paragraph in which Es...
This was a really good book. It's the story of Joe Talbert, college student, who has to write a biography for his English class. He goes to a Nursing Home and meets Carl Iverson. Carl is dying of cancer. Carl is also a convicted murderer. As Joe listens to Carl's story and delves deeper into th...
The Life We Bury Allen Eskens Paperback, 303 pages Published October 14th 2014 by Seventh Street Books (first published 2014) ISBN: 1616149981 (ISBN13: 9781616149987) I've had this on my reading list for a while and I am glad I finally read it. I enjoyed Eskens...
8 years ago
Log in with Facebook 
