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# Valley of Bones

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Review: Fabulous, intelligent author. A great read.
Review: Clever, entertaining, gripping. Jimmy Paz at his best. Only to be topped by Night of the Jaguar, his final case.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Customer reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (29) |
| Dimensions  | 13.49 x 2.57 x 20.32 cm |
| Edition  | Reprint |
| ISBN-10  | 0061650749 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0061650741 |
| Item weight  | 363 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 448 pages |
| Publication date  | 28 April 2009 |
| Publisher  | William Morrow Paperbacks |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by E***I on 20 June 2015*

Fabulous, intelligent author. A great read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by J***S on 1 March 2016*

Clever, entertaining, gripping. Jimmy Paz at his best. Only to be topped by Night of the Jaguar, his final case.

### ⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by W***O on 16 February 2009*

but a definitely superior product. [For me, five stars is a rarely attainable maximum, the one that only the "hundred you'd take to the desert island where you're marooned" get, so I'm somewhat restricted in my four-stars awards. If Amazon's rating system allowed it, I'd give "Valley of Bones" ("VoB") 3¾+ stars]. The plot is aptly summarized both in Amazon's ed rev, and in Gail Cooke's and Kay Day's excellent and more detailed ones (with which I agree), so I won't repeat it here. Obviously, Gruber has taken the trouble to read widely on the subject. He's also able to invent a very ingenious and very complicated, many-layered story (you'll savour it more if you read it twice, as on a first perusal it seems less plausible than when you know the ending, and the second time, page-turning urgency gone, you pay more attention to the details), full of twists wound around a theme told at two different levels, let's call them naturalistic and numinous to simplify. His most risky character, the nun, is well portrayed (I actually have a couple of female Catholic friends that, while quite lower on the "fundamentalist sanctity" scale, could conceivably hold the same beliefs and attitudes). The epiphany is very convincing and masterfully depicted: when she shouts "filthy filthy ... !", for example, you feel it could have been taken from a real experience, and is actually quite a respectable attempt to reconstruct and repeat -with a difference- a historical episode (I'm sorry to be so vague, but otherwise I'd be giving away too many details of a scene that merits to be read by "virgin" minds). This numinous level version is also more believable than that of ToN, perhaps because its main episodes are placed before the end, and so the denouement is much more rational and "whodunitic". The other two main characters are also tolerably well depicted, although less so than the nun's (Paz and his mother are, as in ToN, two clichéed Cubans, while Dr. Wise is, at least at the beginning, a bit of a Woody-Allenish caricature, not really suited to the mood of the book). Miami and Florida are described rather well, the city's and its police's corrupted atmosphere coming through more believably, and in a less annoying language, than, say, in Stone's "King of Swords". The African part is superb, sounding both matter-of-fact and exotic. I'm not qualified to judge whether the account of Garigeau's/Dideroff's infancy in Florida and teenhood in Blue Ridge with the white supremacist philosopher and drug dealer Orne (IMO one of the least plausible of the book's characters) is believable. For me, it was the least interesting part of the novel, and the most contrived (I mean, really, could there be people so crime-prone that don't get caught?). The writing is vivid, and there are four distinct narrations in different styles: I would say a virtuoso performance (I assume the first parts of the Order's history are written to parodize some Saints' bios). All in all, I would say that IMO, for somewhat intellectual tastes, this should the best thriller (if it can at all be confined to that genre, although I think it trascends it) around. Why then not four stars? For two main reasons: (1) The book is essentially the same as ToN (although of course with different personages except the here almost monogamous Paz, and Barlow, and their families; different type of numen involved -although there's some Santería as well, but it's secondary-; different African setting; much more "international" and ramified plot; slightly different and more believable story development, as already noted above); in particular, the modes of description of the epiphanies, although with different meanings and actors, are almost identical. (2) The resolution is implausible. CAUTION: PERHAPS LIGHT SPOILER AHEAD! For example, how did the perps know Emily would fall into a trance and so be conveniently around when Paz entered the suite? More basic, how did they know Morales and Paz would be the cops who first arrived? Different ones might have acted differently. LIGHT SPOILER ENDED. Or, is it believable that a Government psychiatrist could spirit away a patient interned by a judge in a Gov hospital, without neither consequences nor investigation into the disappearance? There are other examples of not very credible situations in the novel (a one-legged, or at least with only one foot, person parachuting? Etc.). (3) Also, although this is a minor quibble, the book must have been finished in a rush: there are some verb tense confusions (especially in Lorna's part, which is told in the present tense), and some negatives are missing from Emmylou's (or else some sentences would have no meaning). To conclude: VoB is a four-star book if you aren't acquainted with Gruber's ToN, a three-star one atherwise. Eminently worth reading in any case. I won't however buy the third Paz volume.

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