{"id":1345,"date":"2014-05-31T16:53:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T22:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2014-05-31T16:53:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T22:53:54","slug":"reed-farrel-coleman-the-hollow-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/reed-farrel-coleman-the-hollow-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Reed Farrel Coleman: The Hollow Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hollowgirl\"<\/a>When Reed Farrel Coleman decided to wrap up his now classic Moe Prager Private Eye series, he didn\u2019t mess around.\u00a0 This moving novel ties up many threads in beleaguered P.I. Prager\u2019s life and sets him on his retirement path.\u00a0 The story that goes along with this last entry is a show stopper, hard to put down and a joy to read.<\/p>\n

For those readers unfamiliar with Coleman, he\u2019s been a small press sensation, beloved in the mystery universe for his straight up, old school private eye novels featuring Moe Prager, set in Brooklyn.\u00a0 Fittingly, Coleman has just been tapped to write Robert B. Parker\u2019s Jesse Stone series, and his writing owes a huge debt to Parker\u2019s ground breaking, wisecracking story telling style.<\/p>\n

This book has the bittersweet acknowledgement of the benefits of age and life experience, while lamenting the physical slowdown that accompanies that state of being (\u201cI headed for Giorgio at full speed, which, at my age, was only slightly faster than standing still.\u201d)\u00a0 And more appropriately, Moe\u2019s last case comes from his past.<\/p>\n

At the request of an old acquaintance, Nancy Lustig, Moe is asked to consult on the case of Nancy\u2019s missing daughter, a woman more infamous than famous as \u201cThe Hollow Girl\u201d, a 90\u2019s internet sensation who faked her suicide online and had a huge following of the lost and lonely who turned to her blog posts to see what was happening in the Hollow Girl\u2019s life.\u00a0 While Moe has never heard of the Hollow Girl, in a typical generational divide, his daughter has.\u00a0 However, Moe is more than willing to hunt for someone\u2019s missing daughter.<\/p>\n

As the details of Moe\u2019s life form a picture of the man \u2013 he\u2019s recently widowed, recently recovered from cancer, been drinking too much, is estranged from his daughter and missing his only grandson \u2013 that is really only the background to what is really a kick ass story of Moe\u2019s hunt for the Hollow Girl.<\/p>\n

Like any P.I. worth his salt Moe\u2019s gut tells him a different story from the sometimes accepted party line, and when the Hollow Girl starts re-broadcasting while including a disclaimer that everything on screen is performance art, Moe has a different feeling.\u00a0 There are some red herrings but this well-constructed story ends in a well laid out and thought out conclusion.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s absolutely unnecessary to have read all the other novels in this series to enjoy this one, you may want to head to the shelf and make a more detailed acquaintance with Moe Prager.\u00a0 He\u2019s well worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Reed Farrel Coleman decided to wrap up his now classic Moe Prager Private Eye series, he didn\u2019t mess around.\u00a0 This moving novel ties up many threads in beleaguered P.I. Prager\u2019s life and sets him on his retirement path.\u00a0 The story that goes along with this last entry is a show stopper, hard to put … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-p-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}