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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780451411198
ISBN number: 0451411196
Label: Onyx
Manufacturer: Onyx
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 400
Printing Date: September 07, 2004
Publishing house: Onyx
Release Date: December 02, 2003
Sale Popularity Level: 139642
Studio: Onyx
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With spot-on details, a smart new voice, and ingenious plot twists, Beverly Connor has been compared to the hottest crime writers on the scene. Now, she ratchets up the suspense with a brand new series featuring one of today's most cunning and complex sleuths: forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon. Her new job as director of the RiverTrail Museum of Natural History in Georgia takes Diane out of the game-until a former love and a murdered family bring her back in.
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I thought that this book was wonderful. I am an avid reader and this book kept me up all night trying to get to the ending. If you love mystery crime novels you'll like this. I think Beverly Connor is great and the characters seem so real. There are a lot of twists and turns but that is what makes it so interesting. My only question is what order do the books go in?
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I was lucky with this series. (I started to read the Lindsay Chamberlain books well into the series although it did not detract from my enjoyment of the ones I have read. However, I actually started at the beginning of this series with this book.
There's lots of descriptions of the plot of this book although I would question the accuracy of some of them, so I just want to say that is a very fast paced stories involving four murders, three in the present and one in the past. The theme is the relationship between child and parent. The book is more complex than any of her other books I have read to date.
Be prepared for an absorbing read.
If you like forensic mysteries you should give this one a go.
One last point though. There are some hanging threads. The author seems to do this as a lead in to future books. One for instance makes a reappearance on the very first page of the second book in this series. So don't expect everything to be tied up with a neat little bow-- it just ain't going to happen.
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The heroine, Diane Fallon, is an ex-forensic anthropologist and has inherited the directorship of a new(?) museum, both under circumstances that remain mysterious for long. We are tossed into what feels like the middle of a story where Fallon is a febrile near-hysteric, frenetically trying to get her museum up and running, dealing with a hostile board, hiring staff on whims, and falling back into an apparently old relationship with equally distraught detective Frank Duncan, who now brings her bones she really doesn't want to see. Connor's choice of metaphors--for people, for buildings--is calculated to establish an undertone of threat and horror. These inexplicable doings continue through the very first half of the book, by which time enough of the backstory has emerged for the reader to realize this is not the second book in a series. We see that Fallon has some humor, the confusing incidents are beginning to settle into some sense, and the multiple cases in which overlapping sets of characters are involved become engrossing. Connor's gradual shift from psychodrama to forensic police procedural is, I think, a sophisticated way of showing how Diane is getting her life back together. That got this book another star. This book's title, One Grave Too Many, might better have applied to the "first" book implied by the appalling backstory that gradually emerges.
It is difficult to imagine how this can be made into a series, since so much of the trail of clues depends on the colleagues, buddies, or family of Diane or Frank, and so many incidents are highly personal. Maybe the series will develop into a "family sleuths" situation? We never do learn much about Frank's background or earlier relationship with Diane. Here he seems to be inveigling Diane to join him in shady, if not illegal, activities, since he is not officially part of these investigations (the reasons why are another plot thread, one not resolved). In general I think Connor lacks polish and wholly convincing dialogue, indulges in caricatures of subsidiary characters who nevertheless aren't memorable, and has an overwrought, tiring plot with, like, two separate conclusions. The plot features a lot more "action" and plot twists than we have seen in Connor's previous and clever Lindsay Chamberlain (forensic archaeologist) series. I don't know why she has dropped(?) that series, one I enjoyed more than this.
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A second series by Connor, this one features Diane Fallon, another forensic anthropologist. In ONE GRAVE TOO MANY, she's the new director of the RiverTrail Museum of Natural History in Georgia, leaving forensics in her haunted past, until a lover and a murdered family bring her past back to the present.
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I wanted to submit this review because I stayed up until 3:00AM this morning to finish this book. To do that on a weeknight, you have to know that a book is special! Diane Fallon is talented, determined, and caught up in a couple of extraordinary situations which may or may not be connected. She is also recently recovered from a devastating loss which led to depression, but she is well on her way to getting back on track. The information on forensic anthropology is fascinating, and I'm adding her subsequent book to my shopping cart as soon as I close--I think that I'll try to save it for a weekend or a flight somewhere!
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