Breaking Blue
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Breaking Blue

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 10, 2013

    Fantastic nonfiction that reads like a novel

    Timothy Egan is a talented writer who can bring history and Northwest alive. This is a true story of a police chief in a tiny town who decides to write about an unsolved murder of a cop from the 30's in nearby Spokane, WA. He becomes obsessed with the case, and yes, he does solve the mystery and brings some peace to the children (now elderly) who never knew who killed their father or why. Also a great portrayal of the early 30's and the seedy characters willing to make money anyway they can.

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  • Posted March 5, 2013

    I have read several of Timothy Egan's more recent books, and lov

    I have read several of Timothy Egan's more recent books, and love his writing style and subjects so much that I went in search of older works.  I really enjoyed this one, and I can't believe I hadn't heard of it before.  A crime committed by one of the "boys in blue" (an officer in the Spokane Police Dept) during the hard days of the Depression is covered up and goes unsolved.  The victim is a cop himself, and his children never learn who killed their father.  The retelling of this nonfiction crime is engrossing in itself, but Egan also introduces us to a present day small town sheriff who decides to write his master's thesis on his sheriff predecessors.  He learns of the unsolved murder and becomes obsessed with solving it.    Revelations of how our upbringing shapes our foibles, how black and white is sometimes gray, and how searching for truth can be alienating and sometimes unrewarding are all themes of this excellently written and engrossing work of nonfiction.  What a talented author!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 11, 2012

    Twilit mask

    Whats wrong carter?

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 11, 2012

    Dark

    Sits on a tree branch and crys in her hands

    0 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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    Posted February 15, 2012

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