I had just the opposite reaction to Hardesty. THE INNOCENTS
is about dead
children, and it seemed natural that while investigating a
case in which he
is trying to bring back the missing child of another father,
Wil would
ruminate on the death of his own son. Perhaps THE INNOCENTS
is more on the
literary contemporary fiction side of genre writing, dealing
more with
character than some like. However, I have to say that I
highly recommend
THE INNOCENTS to anyone yet to try Barre.
BEARING SECRETS deals with the radical movements of the late
60s and 70s in
the US, and THE GHOSTS OF MOURNING deals with the legacy of
Vietnam. Each
of these cases requires Hardesty to deal with his own past,
and his current
personal life suffers as well. I thought BEARING SECRETS
equal in strength
to the first book, and I enjoyed the third as well. If
Richard Barre gives
me more of this type of writing into the next decade and I
think I will be
happy.
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