The Bronx Kill

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Literary writer Martin Keane’s life takes a deadly turn when his wife suddenly disappears without a trace.

Martin Keane has a police officer father he can barely stand — and his latest book has received scathing reviews. Then, just as Keane is starting on a new book he hopes will help him work through his family issues, Martin’s wife suddenly disappears without a trace. And as people start to suspect that Martin might be responsible, he senses there’s more going on than meets ...

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Overview

Literary writer Martin Keane’s life takes a deadly turn when his wife suddenly disappears without a trace.

Martin Keane has a police officer father he can barely stand — and his latest book has received scathing reviews. Then, just as Keane is starting on a new book he hopes will help him work through his family issues, Martin’s wife suddenly disappears without a trace. And as people start to suspect that Martin might be responsible, he senses there’s more going on than meets the eye. He’s sure there are clues to her abduction that he’s overlooking, ones which can perhaps be found in the novel he’s obsessively writing. As Keane and his father investigate the disappearance, he’ll find the truth is much more shocking than he thought in a twist no one could ever see coming.

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Just because a story seems familiar doesn’t mean it can’t still grip you by the collar and haul you right along with it, no questions asked. So it is with Milligan’s taut little cop-family gothic, where the solution to the story’s central mystery is perfectly obvious well before its reveal, but there is no attendant diminution in one’s enjoyment of the plot. Martin is a weak-kneed writer from a long line of New York cops whose most recent novel has been excoriated for being self-indulgently pretentious. Desperate for real-life material, he embarks on a lengthy research trip to Ireland. Not long after he’s back, his (weirdly understanding) wife disappears. That’s when the old family skeletons rattling around in the closet start making their presence known. Romberger’s overly sketchy art keeps the story minimal, and Milligan’s prose frequently veers toward the overheated (“my family’s labyrinthine past is full of ghosts”), particularly as Martin’s new novel starts mirroring the present. But this is prime pulp, with clockwork timing and mood to spare. (Mar.)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781401226312
  • Publisher: DC Comics
  • Publication date: 4/5/2011
  • Pages: 184
  • Product dimensions: 5.38 (w) x 7.98 (h) x 0.30 (d)

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