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    Slipping Into Dark

    Written by Peter Blauner

    Narrated by Michael Kramer

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Twenty years ago Detective Francis X. Loughlin solved his first huge case. He pushed a seventeen-year-old boy to the breaking point and sent him up for murder. But now there's been another death, another pretty, young doctor viciously killed in her pristine Manhattan apartment-and a startling link to that long-ago conviction.
    All fingers point to the convict Julian Vega, no longer so young, out of jail on a technicality, and no longer the eager-to-please youth Loughlin first met in the interrogation room. But this is no open-and-shut case. When Loughlin arranges for a DNA test, the results blow up in his face. Soon there are bulldozers in the graveyard, exhuming twenty-year-old remains and renewing a family's deep-seated mourning. Because there's one thing in this case that Loughlin's now sure of-the blood under the latest victim's fingernails definitely doesn't belong to Julian Vega. It doesn't even belong to a man. It belongs to Allison Wallis, the woman murdered twenty years before.
    Two men circle each other from opposite sides of the law. Both have something to prove, both are only too aware of their own limitations. Once again, Peter Blauner plunges his readers into the murky territory where right bleeds into wrong, and truth finds the most unexpected hiding place. Keenly observant, carefully crafted, and shatteringly suspenseful, this is a spellbinding new work from the bestselling author of The Intruder.

    From the Cassette edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 24, 2006
    ISBN9781415925744
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    Slipping Into Dark
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    Peter Blauner

    PETER BLAUNER is the bestselling author of six novels, including SLOW MOTION RIOT, which won the 1992 Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America. To find out more visit: www.peterblauner.com

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    • 2/5
      I just couldn't get into this book. In fact, I did something I rarely do, about 1/2 way through I decided to read the ending and move on.
    • 3/5
      I had mixed feelings about this book. The story was good, with enough uncertainty to the mystery, but something about the characters didn't set quite right. I did think that the picture painted of someone released from prison after 20 years trying to find their way in a new world was excellent. All too believable, I'm afraid. No wonder there are so many repeaters in the prison system. I had some trouble with Julian's character. He was 17 years old, with a full college scholarship when he was arrested and imprisoned. He spent most of his time in prison becoming a jailhouse lawyer, focused on his innocence and potential for release or appeal, and yet when out he is on the verge or real violence almost every moment. I do believe people are hardened in prison, but this was a completely different person even from the person he was while in prison. It was jarring to me. I liked the portrayal of Loughlin, the policeman, better, although I had difficulty "feeling" the language he used with his fellow cops. So, as I said....a bit mixed.
    • 4/5
      Well done mystery. Good writing and interesting characters and plot.
    • 4/5
      Loved so much about this book. It presents both sides of the story in roughly equal weight, the cynical/humbled cop revisiting an old case, and the innocent man finally released, finding a very different world.I've never read a more captivating, detailed, and real-feeling description of what it's like to emerge from jail. Harrowing. Frightening. Numbing. Hopeless...Julian feels all these things and it's described sparsely but effectively. Great emotional drama delivered in the details.As for Francis, the cop, he gains depth more slowly through the book, but by the end he's my kind of good guy - very ambiguous, painted in shades of gray, his desires filtered down to doing one thing right even as he's uncertain about what "right" is.Francis is going blind. For some reason, I didn't like the dissipating-hero thing as much I did in other books, like Peter Abramson OBLIVION. I guess I'm not sure it was necessary to the book. It was overkill. What with Francis's impending retirement, his shifting marriage, he tenuous relationship with his partner, etc. - this additional drama was over the top.But again, most of all I liked how sharply focused Julian is, even if the picture is almost entirely bleak.
    • 3/5
      Twenty years ago Detective Francis X Loughlin pushed a seventeen-year, Julian Vega to the breaking point and sent him up for murder of Allison Wallis. Now released from prison with the murder conviction dropped, another pretty, young doctor viciously killed, all fingers point to Julian. when Loughlin arranges for a DNA test, results blow-up in his face.
    • 4/5
      How do you find someone who’s not supposed to exist? That’s the detective’s conundrum.Francis X Loughlin is losing his sight. He's a cop, and because of the genetically acquired retinitis pigmentosa his future on the force looks bleak. He's always been a loner so this means ever increasing isolation.Two decades before, Francis had been instrumental in the incarceration of Julian Vega for the murder of a woman. Julian has been released following years of legal appeals he orchestrated, and soon thereafter a similar murder is committed. Now, however, the police have access to DNA technology and some very strange links and relationships lead Loughlin to surmise that Julian may have been innocent.Blauner does a nice job of balancing the assorted POVs. We see Julian struggling to overcome the hostility of just about everyone, each assuming he's guilty and got off on a "technicality." He's somewhat baffled by societal changes having been isolated for more than a decade. The family of the dead girl still feels they haven't received justice, and Francis battles his own feelings about the case as well as the political powers who have everything to gain by hiding what may be the truth. You feel for all of the characters.Great title with multiple meanings.
    • 5/5
       Julian Vega has been released from jail on a technicality after 20 years. Life most convicts, he maintains his innocence. He claims he was framed for murder when he was 17. Francis Loughlin, the detective that got his confession is ready for the retrial when a second murder, that mirrors the first one that Vega was punished for, occurs. Did Vega commit murder upon his release or could he be innocent of all charges?This was an awesome book. I liked that Vega kept his dignity throughout and tried to do the right thing while he was out with some slips here and there. I liked that the book portrayed how difficult it is for ex-prisoners to get started when they are released. Society keeps punishing them - no jobs, no place to live, no financial help, no support...unless you fit into the system's stereotypes. I also liked that Det. Loughlin was real, too, not all good or all bad.I checked this one out from the library because I like Michael Kramer's narration, and I found a new author.