[bksvol-discuss] Book request: 18 SECONDS, by George Shuman
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- Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 19:14:30 -0700 (PDT)
--- Louise <bookscanner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: "Louise" <bookscanner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Cindy R" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Fw: Book Review: 18 SECONDS, by George
> Shuman
> Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 07:56:39 -0500
>
> Hi. Can you post this book review to the Bookshare
> lists and see if perhaps
> someone can obtain and scan this book for Bookshare?
It sounds like
> something I'd like to
> read!!!
>
>
> BookReporter.com
> Friday, April 07, 2006
>
> Book Review: 18 SECONDS, by George Shuman
>
> By Stuart Shiffman
>
> 18 SECONDS, by George Shuman
> Simon & Schuster
> Mystery/Suspense
> ISBN: 0743277163
>
> 18 SECONDS is a gritty and suspenseful police
> procedural with a unique
> twist. Written by George Shuman, a 20-year veteran
> of the Washington D.C.
> Metropolitan Police Department, the novel has all
> the ingredients one
> expects from a first-rate mystery. A brutal and
> sadistic criminal operates
> one-half step ahead of the law enforcement agencies
> seeking to end his reign
> of terror. Along the way the reader meets innocent
> victims whose lives are
> destroyed by random acts of senseless violence that
> cannot be explained or
> justified. Violence comes to these victims in the
> same freakish and
> capricious manner that a lightning strike or tornado
> destroys lives. Readers
> also meet police officers searching for solutions to
> brutal crimes while
> balancing the daily problems of personal lives and
> battling the bureaucratic
> infrastructure found in all law enforcement
> agencies.
>
> Shuman adds a special ingredient to this mystery
> stew in 18 SECONDS. He
> introduces readers to Sherry Moore, a blind and
> beautiful "investigative
> consultant" with an extraordinary talent. Moore can
> touch a corpse and see
> the images viewed by the deceased during the final
> 18 seconds of life. This
> remarkable vision is the result of a childhood
> accident. It allows Moore to
> assist in solving the unsolvable, but along with
> this talent comes a burden.
> The visions passed by corpses to Moore are not
> clear-cut answers to the
> question of who committed the crime. Oftentimes the
> pictures are merely
> pieces of a puzzle that must be solved by Moore
> before a finished portrait
> of a murderer is available to the police. It is a
> difficult and demanding
> task that takes a heavy toll on Moore's psyche.
>
> Every quality police mystery must have a criminal
> whose actions strike fear
> in not only the fictional world of the author but in
> the fictional world
> created for the reader as well. 18 SECONDS brings
> the reader Earl Sykes, a
> serial murderer whose trail of violence is
> interrupted when he's imprisoned
> and sentenced for a vehicular homicide.
> Incarceration serves only to
> embitter Sykes further and indeed expand his web of
> violence to include
> those who he believes contributed unjustly to his
> lengthy prison sentence.
>
> The main protagonist of 18 SECONDS is Wildwood, New
> Jersey police lieutenant
> Kelly O'Shaughnessy. She confronts the difficult
> task of being a female
> police officer attempting to succeed in what remains
> primarily a
> male-dominated profession. But problems with some of
> her male co-workers are
> the least of her worries. Murders eerily reminiscent
> of unsolved crimes that
> happened decades before are occurring on the
> boardwalk of her community. It
> is through a connection to an unsolved murder in
> Pennsylvania that
> O'Shaughnessy meets Moore and Detective John Payne.
> At wit's end in her
> efforts to solve the boardwalk murders,
> O'Shaughnessy enlists the aid of
> Payne and Moore. Their paths converge in a night of
> retribution and violence
> that will keep readers awake, turning the pages as
> they rush to the finale
> of this fine mystery.
>
> 18 SECONDS is a notable maiden effort for George
> Shuman. As a writer he
> obviously shares with his audience a background and
> knowledge of police
> work. His characters are real, with the exception,
> of course, of Moore's
> parapsychological ability to converse with the dead.
> Exciting mystery novels
> often require the willing suspension of disbelief.
> This first-rate work is
> no different. Readers willing to accept the fact
> that in fiction plot often
> trumps the truth will find in the pages of 18
> SECONDS a rewarding and
> exciting crime novel from an author with great
> promise.
>
> --- Reviewed by Stuart Shiffman
>
> LINKS
>
> Read an Excerpt
>
http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/0743277163-excerpt.asp
>
> Author Talk -- April 2006
>
http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-shuman-george.asp#talk0604
>
> Listen to an audio excerpt from audible.com
>
http://cdl.audible.com/cgi-bin/aw_streamer.pl?prod_id=BK_SANS_000673&format=
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