In order to save Malcolm, she returns to the mansion and tells Brahms that she came back for him. He had a volatile nature, always teetering on the edge of darkness. I cant stand her main character the detective. Nick is the closest we get, and hes clearly a flawed hero. French was still his preferred language. I suppose that's a sign of a good writer when she can evoke such strong emotions. Nick and Toniette make a great team. Please! In her mind she was shouting, but she could barely hear the words. Behind her, the sheets rustled and the bed creaked as Nick got up. It was too dark to make out his features. I don't think I'll be reading anything else by this author I hated this book and wasn't that big a fan of another of her books. The Boy by Tami Hoag was an exciting ride. The flailing arms. Maybe it was better if she died. When Detective Nick Fourcade enters the home of Genevieve Gauthier outside the sleepy town of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana, the bloody crime scene that awaits him is both the most brutal and the most confusing he's ever seen. Meanwhile, Nick's wife, Detective Annie Broussard, sits in the emergency room with the grieving Genevieve. 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Select a location to see product availability, Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2023, I've been a fan of Tami Hoag for years. It's the kind of book that you hate when it ends because the next book you read will probably be a let down! It also reflects on why Mr. and Mrs. Heelshire committed suicide. She could taste the salt of her sweat and her tears. At first, he claims that the doll is simply a coping mechanism for the family to deal with their loss. Tensions within the department exacerbated the tensions out on the road. Maybe she should just lie down and quit. Things died in the swamp all the time. currently-reading, e-book, edelweiss-review, and mystery-shelf, tagged: The Heelshires also seem to be very particular about keeping their house vermin free. Gretas past and her own insecurities are a secondary part of the films overarching storyline, but they play a key role in reflecting her relationship with Brahms. The Boy (2016) Ending, Explained Dhruv Sharma Updated August 1, 2022 Since its inception way back in the late 80s, doll horror has now become a classic trope of the genre and if you think about it, executing it in an audio-visual medium is no piece of cake. . She slipped into her robe and padded barefoot down the hall. There is the Florette family, with Nora, a 12-year-old who was supposed to baby sit for KJ, the murder victim, but is embroiled with her bully brother, Dean Florette, who also bullies the troubled Cameron. The night air was too thick, too heavy. Dutrow wasnt from here. She was painted with it. That thunders not the only storm brewing tonight. He was a miniature of Nick with his straight dark eyebrows and full lower lip. Of course, he wouldnt have been wrong in that assumptiona truth that made her even more irritated with herself. Tami Hoag is the #1 internationally bestselling author of more than thirty books published in more than thirty languages worldwide, including her latest thrillers. I would recommend the book to a friend with a warning that they might find some of the occurrences disturbing. Thud! Both Annie and Nick question why someone would break into a house to kill a boy but leave the mother alive. "The Boy" is the second book in Tami Hoag's Broussard and Fourcade series. As if in answer to her thought, way out over the Atchafalaya Basin, lightning again chased itself across the sky, and the ominous low rumble of thunder followed seconds later. He had pulled on a black T-shirt and a pair of camouflage cargo pants. In the closing scene of the film, Brahms can be seen putting back pieces of the doll together, suggesting that he is probably still alive. The doll was somewhat of a pawn to hide the fact that he still lives in the house and this itself was being mildly foreshadowed throughout the runtime of the film. A young single mother, an autistic child (who is killed) and all the people involved in finding the killer. Tami Hoag lets the reader view the family lives of Nick and Annie, a married couple who are both detectives (Nick being her boss). The twosome are now happily (okay somewhat happily) married for several years and their young son. Called out to a shack on the outskirts of Bayou Breaux, Nick Fourcade discovers a horrific crime scene. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. Everyone in the Sheriffs Office was feeling the effectson the job and off. Malcolm also tells her about this one incident where he met Mr. Heelshire wrapping his drunk around the pool table and mumbling to himself. Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) provided by the Author and Publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an fair and honest review. It didnt help that the unrelenting heat and humidity had everyone on their last nerve. Almost from the start I didn't like Nick Fourcade. She didnt want to fight at all, but that seemed to be their new normal of late: too many sharp words and tense silences. crime readers will be turning the pages desperate to find out the ending. Some of the early chapters in which the author introduces the characters of Nick Fourcade and Antoinette Broussard presented a bit of a hurdle for me. She turned away from him and opened the blinds. Dont. Annie shrugged him off and ducked under his arm. When she found someoneif she found someonethey would see the blood, too. He wasnt one of them. Marc Mercier appears to have it all - a successful business man with a loving family who has risen above his upbringing. https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Novel-Tami-Hoag-ebook/dp/B01MEFV17D/, https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-boy-tami-hoag/1124891967, https://play.google.com/store/search?q=9781101985397, Gifford MacShanes THE WINDS OF MORNING Well-told short prequel and a tender love story, Blurb Blitz Tour: The Spirit of Harriet Tubman: Awakening from the Underground by Spring Washam, MURDER WITH ORANGE PEKOE TEA release @karenrosesmith, #BookReview: Lover Awakened (Black Dagger Brotherhood #3) by J.R. Ward, Pure Jonel ~ Confessions of a Bibliophile, ARC Review: The Skeleton Haunts a House (A Family Skeleton Mystery) by Leigh Perry, The StarChild Trilogy by James Courtney and Kaisy Wilkerson-Mills. Please, Genevieve whispered. It deals with the dark side of human nature and how the face a person shows the public does not always match the one behind closed doors. I had this on audiobook and found myself taking lunch breaks in my car and sitting in the car after work to listen. Greta comes to the Heelshire mansion 20 years after the Brahms death to babysit the doll. Or would they just mistake her for an intruder and shoot her? When he was small, his mother had referred to him as petit homme de mystreher little man of mystery. Set in Louisiana's swampy bayou country, the volatile Detective Sergeant Nick Fourcade is a man with a temper he can barely control, married to Detective Annie Broussard, a woman who has never come to terms with her traumatic family history, both based at the Partout Parish Sheriff's Office. Her 7-year-old child is at home dead from knife wounds. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. Copyright 2023 Tami Hoag. Since its inception way back in the late 80s, doll horror has now become a classic trope of the genre and if you think about it, executing it in an audio-visual medium is no piece of cake. The Broussard-Fourcade household got a double dose. As Annie interviews people close to KJ, she discovers that his twelve-year-old babysitter has disappeared. He stepped too close. There wasnt any part of this story that wasnt monstrous. He was a broad-shouldered silhouette as he rubbed a hand over his face. You probably will be surprised by the ending as I . She wobbled to her feet like a newborn deer and staggered on, one foot in front of the other, her focus on the house. From the beginning of the film, she clearly struggles to get rid of Cole and finds it hard to move on. Another stressor for Annie, another pang of guilt. I do not admire the fact that the author is trying to glorify this behavior. He kissed her slowly and deeply. On her hands. The Boy is well written, with great characters (some you will love, others you will hate), wonderful dialogue and plenty of plot twists. Lightning spread across the sky in the distance like spiderweb cracks across dark glass. Narrator Hillary Huber does an excellent job immersing the reader in the regions rich Louisiana accentseven including a smattering of pure French Patois. Greta and Malcolm try to find their way out of the house to escape Brahms, but only Greta is able to get out. A mother herself, Annie understands the emotional devastation this woman is going through, but as a detective she's troubled by a story that makes little sense. Who would do such a thing? She slapped the hood with one hand and the windshield with the other, smearing the glass with blood. It didnt matter that Gus himself had brought Kelvin Dutrow on board as chief deputy the year before his retirement. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Down the Darkest Road by Hoag, Tami at the best online prices at eBay! Since then, Brahms has been lurking in the shadows of the mansion, pretending that he is dead to the world. The subsequent disappearance of 12-year-old Nora Florette, KJ's babysitter, gives the members of the small community of Bayou Breaux even more reason to be fearful. I oughta shoot you first, coming home at this hour. I swear! Even Malcolm ends up joining them and he, too, tries to convince Cole that theres a lot more to the doll than meets the eye. Hoag is a good writer. This police detective couple are projected as a pair off the cover of a Harlequin Romance novel. An unfathomable loss or an unthinkable crime? Tami Hoag is the #1 international bestselling author of more than thirty books published in more than thirty languages worldwide. Carefully, she slipped out of bed and padded across the cypress-wood floor to the window to peek through the blinds. Apart from this, the ending of the film also reflects on how Greta chooses to finally recover from her past by ending all of her previous toxic relationships. Personally, I had so hoped for a more police procedural story, yep, give me Kovak and Liska any day! Meanwhile, tension between Nick and the new sheriff of Partout Parish, Kelvin Dutrow, "an outsider, a usurper; too stiff, too arrogant, too brash," complicates the investigation. Oh, Im sorry my feelings are so tedious for you., Its the middle of the damn night, he said wearily. Beyond feeling pain, she dragged herself the last few feet and banged a fist against the screen door. Could she have killed her own child to free herself from the burden of motherhood, or is the loss of her beloved boy pushing her to the edge of insanity? Until we have the person who hurt their daughter, Im it.. After the boys parents leave for a vacation, hoping that Greta will be able to take care of his, things start to get really creepy. This had been going on for weeks now, ever since that night in June, when a call had awoken her from a deep, peaceful sleep. This explains how hes a full-grown man now. She wanted to cry out, to call for help, but her voice died in her throat. When Detective Nick Fourcade enters the home of Genevieve Gauthier outside the sleepy town of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana, the bloody crime scene that awaits him is both the most brutal and the most confusing he's ever seen. Some of the secondary characters are rather two-dimensional, though, and Hoag seems to have a problem finding a positive male character to write about. He was a sweet, sensitive little boya little too sensitive to the recent tensions between his parents, making him moody and clingy. The Theriot case was a straight-up whodunit. The thunder rolled after it and right along her nerves. When the cops arrived at the mansion to question the young boy, it was already burning down and Brahms was later found dead. How far will Nick and Annie have to go to uncover the dark truth, Tami Hoag is the #1 internationally bestselling author of more than thirty books published in more than thirty languages worldwide, including her latest thrillers, . Mrs. Heelshire also tells her that they save all of their uneaten food and it is pretty obvious that all of this food goes to Brahms. What a thrill of a book! Absolutely fantastic read from start to finish! A mother herself, Annie understands the devastation this woman is going through, but as a detective she's troubled: Who would murder a child and leave the only witness behind? Genevieve's seven-year-old son, KJ, has been murdered by an alleged intruder, yet Genevieve is alive and well. The Boy is the very first book I've read by Tamo Hoag, but I've been wanting to read her books for a while now. With this, Malcolm concludes that Brahms spirit, which seemingly resides in the doll, could possibly evil. After you've bought this ebook, you can choose to download either the PDF version or the ePub, or both. Meanwhile, Nick's wife, Detective Annie Broussard, sits with the grieving Genevieve. The book is very well written and in spite of my misgivings, I enjoyed it much more than I expected and I was totally blown away by the ending. I need to hold you for a while., She tipped her face up to look at him and met his lips with hers. Her characters are flawed and all too human . A young single mother, an autistic child (who is killed) and all the people involved in finding the killer. For just a second her eyes locked on the terrified face of the driver, a woman, and then the engine roared. When Detective Nick Fourcade enters the home of Genevieve Gauthier outside the sleepy town of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana, the bloody crime scene that awaits him is both the most brutal and the most confusing he's ever seen. Summer should have been a distant memory by now, but like a big ugly snake, it had sunk its fangs in deep and hung on, pumping its venom into the citizens of south Louisiana. Copyright 2018 byTamiHoag. She slipped to the side. There is no end to the amount of twists, and the author is adept at misleading her readers into suspecting who the killer is. Then suddenly she was falling, sprawling headlong. They are dealing with upheaveal in their department with a new sheriff in charge who wants things done his way. They get a call in the middle of the night that no law enforcement officer wants, a young 7 year old boy, KJ, has been stabbed multiple times at home, the dead boy's mother, 24 year old Genevieve Gauthier, has been seriously attacked too, and in a bloody state ran to seek help from neighbours. Without a doubt, Tami Hoag is a veteran of the bestseller industry. This was a tale full of many secrets and as many suspects too! Being a La. But sifting through Genevieve Gauthiers tangled web of lovers and sorting through a cast of local lowlifes brings more questions than answers. An example of a very effective image is found when Nick surveils a suspect at night in a boat on the bayou across from the mans house: As shallow and delicate as a milkweed pod, the pirogue skated across the water, skimming over the duckweed and water hyacinth, deftly slipping between the cypress trees.. Meanwhile, Nicks wife, Detective Annie Broussard, sits in the emergency room with the grieving Genevieve. He kills Cole, Malcolm and Greta soon realize that he is the actual Brahms. When Detective Nick Fourcade enters the home of Genevieve Gauthier outside the sleepy town of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana, the bloody crime scene that awaits him is both the most brutal and the most confusing he's ever seen. edelweiss-review, currently-reading, e-book, and mystery-shelf, tagged: And since the twists in it can often get a little more complex than would expect, you might need some explaining to understand what happens throughout its runtime. For obvious reasons, she does not take her job too seriously and simply assumes that the dolls parents are only using it to cope with the death of their son. Inside is the body of seven-year-old KJ Gauthier. How far will Nick and Annie have to go to uncover the dark truth of the boy? There are more than 40 million copies of her books in print in more than 30 languages, and each new title instantly rings the bell on the bestseller charts. 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