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Bones
482 pages, Paperback
First published March 30, 1995
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Gabrielle Lord
108 books238 followersGabrielle Craig Lord is an Australian writer who has been described as Australia's first lady of crime.
She survived being ‘razed’ by the nuns, acquired an education despite this, and after working in many different areas, sales, teaching, brick-cleaning, peach-picking and packing, and in the Public Service as an employment officer, started writing seriously aged 30.
Her first two manuscripts ended up composting the tomatoes at her market garden – another attempt to make a living – but the third one FORTRESS was picked up internationally and made into a feature film starring Rachel Ward. A later novel WHIPPING BOY was made into a telemovie starring Sigrid Thornton. The film rights money, coinciding with her daughter leaving school, allowed Gabrielle to resign and instead of getting up at 4.30am and writing for several hours before heading off for work, she could write full-time and lead a more ‘normal’ writer’s life – hanging around with scientists and detectives, badgering forensic anthropologists (she studied some Anatomy at Sydney university) and doing work experience with a busy private security business and of course, writing.
Research is everything, she says. ‘Out of my contacts with experts (who are always far too modest to describe themselves that way) I get not only the fine-tuning necessary for today’s savvy readers, but also wonderful incidents and images that enrich and enlarge my books.’
Gabrielle’s interests are very simple. ‘After a misspent youth, I don’t have many brain cells left so I enjoy walking, meditation, singing, gardening, chatting with close friends, being with my family and grandkids, feeding my goldfish and keeping up to date with bodywork and enlightened psychotherapy.’
Gabrielle has now written fourteen adult novels and a novel for young adults. Once the 12 books of Conspiracy 365 are completed, this tally will be a tad bigger! Following this mammoth endeavour she already has plans for another three adult novels and two more YAs.
2013
She survived being ‘razed’ by the nuns, acquired an education despite this, and after working in many different areas, sales, teaching, brick-cleaning, peach-picking and packing, and in the Public Service as an employment officer, started writing seriously aged 30.
Her first two manuscripts ended up composting the tomatoes at her market garden – another attempt to make a living – but the third one FORTRESS was picked up internationally and made into a feature film starring Rachel Ward. A later novel WHIPPING BOY was made into a telemovie starring Sigrid Thornton. The film rights money, coinciding with her daughter leaving school, allowed Gabrielle to resign and instead of getting up at 4.30am and writing for several hours before heading off for work, she could write full-time and lead a more ‘normal’ writer’s life – hanging around with scientists and detectives, badgering forensic anthropologists (she studied some Anatomy at Sydney university) and doing work experience with a busy private security business and of course, writing.
Research is everything, she says. ‘Out of my contacts with experts (who are always far too modest to describe themselves that way) I get not only the fine-tuning necessary for today’s savvy readers, but also wonderful incidents and images that enrich and enlarge my books.’
Gabrielle’s interests are very simple. ‘After a misspent youth, I don’t have many brain cells left so I enjoy walking, meditation, singing, gardening, chatting with close friends, being with my family and grandkids, feeding my goldfish and keeping up to date with bodywork and enlightened psychotherapy.’
Gabrielle has now written fourteen adult novels and a novel for young adults. Once the 12 books of Conspiracy 365 are completed, this tally will be a tad bigger! Following this mammoth endeavour she already has plans for another three adult novels and two more YAs.
2013
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September 11, 2017
Not unenjoyable but some parts were unbelievable and the ending left me unsatisfied. I believe this was Gabrielle's second book and I can assure readers her later work (crime novels, I don't know her other genre) is much better.
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August 28, 2020I found this book a little confusing. It tended to jump back and forth a little bit between current events and past events, mainly to explain why the character was feeling/reacting a certain way. Also, the main character seems to spend an inordinate amount of time in retrospection over 'who he used to be' versus 'who he is now'. I found it a little irritating - just wanted him to get on with it instead of pondering the whys and wherefores.
Also the story seemed to end very abruptly with the fate of the main character left up in the air somewhat. The author gives you plenty of info to make a pretty good guess as to how it would turn out, but still - it just seemed to stop instead of finishing it off.
Also the story seemed to end very abruptly with the fate of the main character left up in the air somewhat. The author gives you plenty of info to make a pretty good guess as to how it would turn out, but still - it just seemed to stop instead of finishing it off.
September 24, 2019
Someone mentioned this author, and this was the only book I found of hers. It is perhaps not her best, but I was not overly impressed. She writes well enough, but some aspects of this book were a little preposterous. A well known surgeon survives an assassination attempt, goes into a witness protection scheme and then... becomes a homicide detective? OK... well letting that pass, we wait for the bad things to happen and then things play out much as you would expect. Quite predictable but an okay read. Probably appeals to those into the crime genre more than it appealed to me (I only occasionally read crime genre).
September 10, 2020
I never leave reviews but this book was so unsatisfying. The ending was just weird. I hate when writers just stop basically mid stream, it's as if they say I've written 300 pages so boom let's just end now no tying up loose ends....
If anyone can explain the ending I'd appreciate it
If anyone can explain the ending I'd appreciate it
March 2, 2018
Gabrielle Lord's adult books are mostly quite dark and not easy to read because the writing style is different from the easy flow of American authors. You really have to concentrate not to zone out. That's not to say there isn't a good story here, but her narrative style is very different from a Lee Child or James Patterson.
October 29, 2015
A pretty good read but definitely not à great read did go on @ times which made the story way too long, It was also very unbelievable I can't imagine anyone who is a surgeon suddenly becomes a homicide detective after having to go into witness protection I think the odds of that happening would be extremely low to say the least......Not a bad read❤
February 7, 2013
Not the greatest read. I felt it dragged on a bit. The story of the child killer could have stood on it's own. I felt the story of the Dr.'s past didn't help the book.
March 5, 2014
An alright book, not brilliant
February 1, 2015
really liking this author !
January 8, 2016
A good read but I really felt like I had read it before.
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