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Good Neighbors

di Ryan David Jahn

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A compulsively readable debut crime novel inspired by the legendary real-life murder of Kitty Genovese.

At 4:00 A.M. on March 13, 1964, a young woman returning home from her shift at a local bar is attacked in the courtyard of her Queens apartment building. Her neighbors hear her cries; no one calls for help.

Unfolding over the course of two hours, Good Neighbors is the story of the woman's last night. It is also the story of her neighbors, the bystanders who kept to themselves: the anxious Vietnam draftee; the former soldier planning suicide; the woman who thinks she's killed a child and her husband, who will risk everything for her. Revealing a fascinating cross-section of American society in expertly interlocking plotlines, Good Neighbors calls to mind the Oscar-winning movie Crash, and its suspense and profound sense of urban menace rank it with Hitchcock's Rear Window and the gritty crime novels of Dennis Lehane, Richard Price, and James Ellroy.

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Katrina Marino va a morir. Esta es la historia de Katrina, de su asesino y de sus vecinos, que fueron testigos del crimen y no hicieron nada por evitarlo. La historia de un asesinato y de un grupo de personas cuyas vidas se verán profundamente afectadas por él. La historia de un grito en plena noche, que todo el mundo oyó pero nadie quiso escuchar. La historia de un nervioso recluta de la guerra del Vietnam, de un antiguo soldado que planea suicidarse, de una mujer que cree haber matado a un niño... Y también de otras personas sacudidas por ese crumen: un viejo profesor que no logra huir de su pasado, un ingenuo chantajista que pronto descubrirá a qué tipo de gente ha estado amenazando, un policía corrupto con un particular y brutal sentido de la justicia...
  Natt90 | Mar 27, 2023 |
Many years ago, during freshman college college psychology class, I learned the sad tale of Kitty Genovese, a young woman who worked late and when she returned home, a deranged, violent man was watching her to harm and kill her.

While many observed and/or heard the screams of the incident, no one called the police, thinking that they did not need to do so because most likely others had called 911. This true story was used in class as a reference of how easily it is for others not to take responsibility and help someone in need.

The author weaves fictional people and their lives that fateful evening. The tales of the other lives that evening were disturbingly nasty and violent. I read this book in one sitting, and while I thought it was very well written, reading it at night was frightening.
  Whisper1 | Sep 4, 2021 |
Gebaseerd op feiten, schept een klaar beeld van de misdadige onverschilligheid en het niet opnemen van verantwoordelijkheid van en door het menselijke ras...ook dat lijkt me zeer realistisch...
Niet fantastisch spannend... ( )
  Mr.Prikkebeen | Sep 20, 2018 |
This is a dazzling novel. Don't start it unless you can devote the whole evening to it. The force of the narrative drags you into half a dozen compelling human stories; interwoven and parallel lives which are all at a turning point during one early morning.

The crisp writing and tightly plotted chapters drive you through it at a relentless pace: you really won't want to stop reading until you find out what happens to each character as they confront a pivotal moment and emerge forever altered by the experience.

This book feels very much like one of those blockbuster montage movies, where intertwined threads weave back and forth en route towards an almightly climax. In this case the action is set in mid-America, in the early 1960s. The main theme involves a savage attack on a young woman but although that is sold as the central narrative there is plenty else going on in here too; being drafted for Vietnam, wife-swapping and all its consequences, what happens when an abused child grows up, racism and police corruption, being chronically ill, the loneliness which can lead to suicide, taking the step from boyhood to manhood, acknowledging an unspoken sexual desire and more -- oh, there's heaps more.

It's as if author RD Jahn has done his best to cram every ounce of the human condition into this one novel, and he's come scarily close to achieving that goal. For the characters also display compassion, fidelity and mercy; it's not all entirely grim.

You may find in the opening chapters that you are a little bewildered about who all the different people are, because each segment hops between scenes and people and there's some real stunt-writing with the timeline too. As the novel goes on you become familiar with each situation (although I never did identify the characters by their names), and it rewards careful reading. This book delivers its best if you have time and concentration to spend on it: turn off the background chatter if you really want to be swept away by the stark and occasionally exquisite outcomes.

If you like this kind of crime-thriller fiction, then I suggest you also try [b:A Last Act of Charity|22602019|A Last Act of Charity (Killing Sisters, #1)|Frank Westworth|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1404054107s/22602019.jpg|42088165][[ASIN:1909984426 A Last Act of Charity]]. I'm a bit biased (reader: I married the author!) but it should appeal to a similar audience.

Very hard to see how Acts Of Violence (which is an alternative title; it's been published as both this and Good Neighbours, so don't buy both!) could have been better, so it scores an astonishing--
10/10 ( )
  RowenaHoseason | Jun 22, 2016 |
Unglaublich traurig! ( )
  LadyMine | Feb 11, 2016 |
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Fiction. Literature. HTML:

A compulsively readable debut crime novel inspired by the legendary real-life murder of Kitty Genovese.

At 4:00 A.M. on March 13, 1964, a young woman returning home from her shift at a local bar is attacked in the courtyard of her Queens apartment building. Her neighbors hear her cries; no one calls for help.

Unfolding over the course of two hours, Good Neighbors is the story of the woman's last night. It is also the story of her neighbors, the bystanders who kept to themselves: the anxious Vietnam draftee; the former soldier planning suicide; the woman who thinks she's killed a child and her husband, who will risk everything for her. Revealing a fascinating cross-section of American society in expertly interlocking plotlines, Good Neighbors calls to mind the Oscar-winning movie Crash, and its suspense and profound sense of urban menace rank it with Hitchcock's Rear Window and the gritty crime novels of Dennis Lehane, Richard Price, and James Ellroy.

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