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Excellent, and a very quick, engaging read. The first chapter clues you in to what you believe will be the end of the story. Not so fast, though, there are still surprises to come! I enjoyed the way this author wrote, reminded me somewhat of Stephen King's style. Wry witty dialogue, yet this IS a thriller, not black humor as some of the blurbs I've read would indicate. Clever concept, this "writer's" circle and the "story" that unfolds. I had no "oh no" moments, you know the kind, where the story takes a disappointing turn. I would recommend this book to any one who enjoys this genre and for those who are new to it.


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The Killing Circle A Novel Andrew Pyper 9780312384760 Books Reviews

The Killing Circle is a novel about the flagging success of Patrick Rush, a recent widower, single dad, and columnist at the city paper. The economy of print news combined with Patrick's indifference and bad attitude quickly lead to unemployment. Having always dreamt of writing the great Canadian novel, Patrick joins a writing circle, where he quickly discovers that he's really got nothing to contribute. When strange things start happening in Patrick's city and writing circle, he's drawn into a sequence of events that ultimately sets his life back on track - or so it seems.

Though that sounds like the complete story, in fact, it's just act 1 and I haven't spoiled anything for future readers. The story is told in two chunks - 2003 and 2007. The 2003 section almost entirely serves as back story. In that sense, the story takes some time to evolve. However, the writing and the characters make the time pass quickly. In 2007, we discover even more about the protagonist that makes us question his moral fiber, and from there the mystery takes unexpected twists and turns. Is Patrick the next victim? The prime suspect? An unwitting pawn in someone else's game?

On the thriller spectrum from Koontz (the good guys always win and live to see another day) to King (sometimes evil prevails), Pyper is much closer to King. Patrick is far from perfect and I didn't always find myself rooting for him to come out on top. Unfortunately, I didn't really identify or connect with any of the characters which made me feel oddly disconnected from the story. At the same time, Patrick also seems slightly disconnected from his own life so perhaps the distance I felt was appropriate.

In the end, I enjoyed the book, the unique plot (I didn't come close to guessing the ending), and the writing kept me interested until past my bedtime. I have added Pyper's previous books to my eventual to-be-read list, but I won't go out a buy them ASAP. Overall The Killing Circle is solid read that I'll be happy to pass along to fellow mystery readers, but not something that I'd highly recommend.
Patrick Rush is a single father who was recently demoted at his newspaper job from well-respected book reviewer to writer of a frivolous column called "The Couch Potato," all about painfully inane reality TV shows with exclamatory names like, Falling From Buildings! and Animals That Kill!

Miserable at work, and grieving the still-fresh death of his wife, he decides it's time he look into pursuing one of the goals of his youth -- writing a novel. To that end, he joins a writing group he sees advertised in the local paper. Each group member spends a week writing something -- anything -- and then they meet to read their work aloud and get feedback from the others. After a few weeks spent struggling to get even the most banal prose down on paper, though, Patrick decides his life just hasn't been interesting enough. He has nothing to say, because nothing has ever happened to him. The old adage "write what you know" only works if you know something, he decides.

Thankfully, nobody else in the group is producing anything good either, so Patrick continues to coast through each meeting, mostly hanging around out of curiosity for his fellow failed would-bes.

Then he hears chapter one of Angela's story, and everything begins to shift.

Angela is a young, pretty woman whose story is strange, scary, and engrossing. It's about a little girl stalked by a killer she describes only as "a terrible man who does terrible things," and later dubs "the Sandman." As Angela tells more and more of the tale, Patrick notices parallels between what she's writing and recent crimes reported in the news. Just as he's begun to suspect her story is more autobiographical than fictitious, members of the group start disappearing -- some found dead, others simply vanishing into thin air. Patrick, obsessed with both Angela and the Sandman, becomes convinced one of the group's members, a big, ugly guy who writes disturbing stories about killing animals, is the Sandman, and when someone starts following him and then Angela herself disappears, Patrick realizes his life has not only gotten interesting enough to turn into a book, the book it's turned into is "a bloody page-turner."

This is a pretty entertaining little thriller, with an interesting running theme about the nature of stories and storytelling. By the end of the novel, it's hard to tell how much of the story we're hearing, narrated by Patrick, is actually true, and how much is simply a fictionalized version of his life -- not necessarily fictionalized on purpose. This is a common issue with memoirs, after all; no memoir is ever pure truth, right? Can we ever look at our life objectively enough to report only facts? And, maybe more importantly, should we even try?

The writing here isn't anything special -- it's well-enough crafted but not stand-out - but the story was suspenseful enough to make me want to look for more by the author. Definitely recommended if you're in the mood for a dark little mystery.
It took me a while to get into the book. Not as good as I thought it would be. I like to "love a book and this didn't make the grade. Sorry
This story has several layers the story of a writer who wants to be an author,
who finds a writing circle to help with his writer's block, and it becomes a ghost
story without a ghost, which becomes a whodunit. The reader follows Patrick
Rush through a maze. An interesting read
Excellent, and a very quick, engaging read. The first chapter clues you in to what you believe will be the end of the story. Not so fast, though, there are still surprises to come! I enjoyed the way this author wrote, reminded me somewhat of Stephen King's style. Wry witty dialogue, yet this IS a thriller, not black humor as some of the blurbs I've read would indicate. Clever concept, this "writer's" circle and the "story" that unfolds. I had no "oh no" moments, you know the kind, where the story takes a disappointing turn. I would recommend this book to any one who enjoys this genre and for those who are new to it.