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sandin954's review against another edition
3.0
Collection of three shorter works, featuring the characters of the 87th Precinct, that were all good quick reads.
bundy23's review against another edition
3.0
A bit different from the earlier books. Enjoyable but it was just 3 stories that, I assume, weren't quite good enough to be published on their own. I know he's meant to be the hero, but I don't think I'll ever warm to Cotton Hawes.
tarana's review against another edition
5.0
This book has two cases - one is the murder of a rabbi and the other is the murder of a young ski instructor. I have no doubt that plenty of city cops have trouble dealing with rural cops (in some cases, justified).
dgrachel's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
I took too much time between starting and finishing the audio, and I completely forgot the plot of the first of the three short stories that compromise The Empty Hours. I know I enjoyed most of the second story, but I can’t remember the whodunnit. Having just finished, I can say that I really loved the way the third played out. The problem with binging this series is that they all run together.
whatmeworry's review against another edition
4.0
A break from the norm, in that this features 3 novellas rather than a single novel, but none the worse for it. My favourite of the 3 stories was the last one, which has Hawes on a skiing holiday, butting heads with the local cops as he tries to solve a murder.
guiltyfeat's review
4.0
Three short stories, each different. I had no idea when I began this project of reading the 87th Precinct books in order, just how Jewish they were going to be. The middle story in this collection is about the murder of a Conservative Rabbi on the first night of Pesach. It's about what it means to be a Jew, antisemitism and the tension between traditional orthodoxy and conservatism. All that in a 60 page whodunnit. Remarkable.
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