Monday, August 30, 2010
The Hanging Tree
I started reading The Hanging Tree by Bryan Gruley. This mystery novel is very exciting. It pulled me in with in the first chapter. Granted I am slowly reading it and am only on the fourth chapter but any spare time I have I find my self picking this book up to read it. The twist that they throw at you in the begging is just mind blowing. The fact that the murder victim is found dead in the tree that she created for her town. The tale is that her and her boyfriend back in high school were having a last hot summer night and Gracie decided to take one of her shoes and one of her boyfriends shoes and climb still naked 60 ft high up into this tree to hang their shoes there together for eternity expressing their love. Then ironically she is found hanging in the tree with one shoe missing in the middle of night in the middle of a snow storm. That to me is a hook. I am so tangled into this book. There are so many more little twist and turns with in this book that make it so great. For instance; the detective is the murder victims best friend and the detectives boyfriend is the towns news reporter who is cousins with the murder victim. All three people grew up close to each other making the story/case more interesting and complicated.
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Wow! You've got me hooked by your description of what's going on so far. It sounds like you're intrigued by the relationships between the characters as much as by the plot devices Gruley puts out there for you. Are you a big mystery fan in general? I like them quite a bit, myself. I really like when I can read a series by the same author and follow the development of the characters. I'm curious about this one--the title seems like it could have some reference to African-American history or lynchings. Does it?
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