A Dark and Lonely Place

I would say this is more an "almost 3" -- there were 2 distinct stories in this novel and sometimes they didn't connect together very well. Main story, which the author says has been her research interest for many years,is based on the life of outlaw John Ashley, a bootlegger who was drawn into bank......more

I sort of enjoyed this book but found the structure quite clumsy. I liked the idea of reading about two similar couples in two very different time periods but some of the sections for each time frame where too long and I lost track of what was happening with the other couple. Like some of the other......more

Taking an old Florida legend of injustice and splicing it into a modern-day crime drama doesn't work for me. I'm sure that the tale of a desperado falsely accused of murder could have been a page turner, but when you're turning those pages and find yourself in modern day Miami police procedural, the......more

This was the story of Laura and John and of Laura and John. Two couples, one from the 'wild' Florida of the twenties and the other from the corrupt Florida of today. Each couple receives portions of the book and each one's lives are on a similar pattern. The plot is intriguing and the narrative itse......more

Melodramatic and predicitable. A waste of time. I'm running out of decent audio books to borrow from the library.......more