The Life We Bury (Hardcover)

from Beamis12

Joe Talbert is a young man, who had to assume many responsibilities a young age, one for his autistic brother and also for his alcoholic and partying mother. Finally moving away, getting a job and paying his own way through college, he just might now be able to have a life of his own. Until a sch...

from bnbookgirl

This was an interesting mystery and also a story about redemption. A Vietnam vet who has been released from prison because he is dying. He was in prison for raping and killing a young girl. A young college student is doing a paper on him and realizes he did not commit the crime. He wants to get r...

from Andy5185

I really enjoyed this. Great characters that were very realistic to me and the mystery was just thrilling and twisty enough to keep me turning the pages. I appreciated the depth of the story and although a bit corny at places I did like the message it delivered. Would make a great TV movie - it r...

from pdebolt

This book has very sympathetic characters and a well-developed plot. The first half of the book is especially engaging. Joe Talbert is a college student from a dysfunctional family assigned to write a biography of someone he doesn't know, and he chooses a frail man in a nursing home with terminal...

from ehines

The beginning and the end seem heavily workshopped, and things weren't improved through the process. At the start, the narrator engages in rich description and images that just plain out of character, but were probably pleasing to a creative writing teacher who insisted on rich description. The e...