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No.46 on the Greater Boston Hit List: A murder case with many twists and turns
A quick read about a murder first thought to be a gangland slaying but becomes more complicated with a lapsed insurance policy leading to a trial with unexpected results.
162 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 11, 2018
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Richard Murphy
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Richard Murphy was one of Ireland’s most distinguished poets. He is particularly known for poems that draw on the landscape and history of the west of Ireland. His Collected Poems (Gallery Press) was published in 2000, his acclaimed autobiography The Kick (Granta Books) in 2003. His awards include the Cheltenham Award and the American-Irish Foundation Award.
‘Richard Murphy’s verse is classical in a way that demonstrates what the classical strengths really are. It combines a high music with simplicity, force and directness in dealing with the world of action. He has the gift of epic objectivity: behind his poems we feel not the assertion of his personality, but the actuality of events, the facts and sufferings of history’ (Ted Hughes).
Source: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SeamusHe...
Richard Murphy was one of Ireland’s most distinguished poets. He is particularly known for poems that draw on the landscape and history of the west of Ireland. His Collected Poems (Gallery Press) was published in 2000, his acclaimed autobiography The Kick (Granta Books) in 2003. His awards include the Cheltenham Award and the American-Irish Foundation Award.
‘Richard Murphy’s verse is classical in a way that demonstrates what the classical strengths really are. It combines a high music with simplicity, force and directness in dealing with the world of action. He has the gift of epic objectivity: behind his poems we feel not the assertion of his personality, but the actuality of events, the facts and sufferings of history’ (Ted Hughes).
Source: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SeamusHe...
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August 19, 2018
Although I’m a relative voracious book reviewer with over 880 reviews having been written on Amazon.com in about the past four years, I also happen to be a TOP CONTRIBUTOR there when it comes to TRUE CRIME books; and from time to time I love getting my hands on a decent fictional crime thriller to read. And I believe I’ve found one here in this book.
While there are several authors who can write extraordinary mystery, thriller, and suspense novels that can make one’s blood curl purely from their imagination. The author of this book, Richard Murphy, does that, and then goes one very important step further by adding a definitive sense of authenticity to the entire storyline due to the fact he’d been personally involved with the case which this book has been based on, as a member of the Boston Police Department.
If you’re a True Crime aficionado like I am, then you can truly appreciate when the author’s writing is such that its imagery puts you right there, front and center, where all the action is taking place. All of this accounts for making this book in the end, a book that’s a definite attention-grabbing, page-turning one. And for giving his stories a fictional crime story which reaches the heights of reality I’m more than happy to give Mr. Murphy the 5 STARS he’s just gotten from this reviewer.
While there are several authors who can write extraordinary mystery, thriller, and suspense novels that can make one’s blood curl purely from their imagination. The author of this book, Richard Murphy, does that, and then goes one very important step further by adding a definitive sense of authenticity to the entire storyline due to the fact he’d been personally involved with the case which this book has been based on, as a member of the Boston Police Department.
If you’re a True Crime aficionado like I am, then you can truly appreciate when the author’s writing is such that its imagery puts you right there, front and center, where all the action is taking place. All of this accounts for making this book in the end, a book that’s a definite attention-grabbing, page-turning one. And for giving his stories a fictional crime story which reaches the heights of reality I’m more than happy to give Mr. Murphy the 5 STARS he’s just gotten from this reviewer.
September 17, 2018
It was hard not to like the book because it was about the death of my father. I, myself, wrote a book about the death of my father, “The Scent of Bread”. However, it was through MY eyes. What made this interesting for me was reading it through the eyes of the Assistant DA who was on the case at the time of my father’s death. This book was about the murder and the trial... and the twists and turns of ‘who done it’. My book was ‘getting to know the family emotionally’ and then the murder and ‘who done it’.
I liked reading about the trial in this book. It gave me information i didn’t have. Thank you Richard Murphy.
I liked reading about the trial in this book. It gave me information i didn’t have. Thank you Richard Murphy.
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