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Original Title:	Acts of Violence
ISBN:	0230743595 (ISBN13: 9780230743595)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	CWA New Blood Dagger (2010)

Acts of Violence

Ryan David Jahn

Hardcover | Pages: 250 pages

Rating: 3.63 | 1055 Users | 197 Reviews

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Title	:	Acts of Violence
Author	:	Ryan David Jahn
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 250 pages
Published	:	November 6th 2009 by MacMillan UK (first published 2009)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Crime. Thriller. Suspense

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Won this book as a Goodreads First Reads and I am at a loss for words. Wow... I mean wow... This book was so packed with action. It really did recall movies such as Crash, 11:14, and Vantage Point. Ryan David Jahn or RDJ does an amazing job of weaving the very busy characters lives that revolve around the brutal murder of Kat. At first as I started the book and the characters were being introduced I said to myself how is RDJ going to pull off this whole story with so many characters in under 300 pages, but he does and I wouldn't change a thing.

I never thought Katrina Marino would last and fight until the end of the book, at first I thought it would be more of a story of the neighbors seeing the murder and just not saying anything, like everybody saw it but nobody speaks about it; however, the story is so much more deeper and different then that. You got Patrick the kid called into the draft with a ailing mother who is dependent on him, Thomas Marlowe the lonely man who gets lost in a world with a fake family, Officer Alan Kees a dirty cop whose bad deeds catch up with him, Mr. Vacanti, another man whose past transgressions catch up with him after a car accident, David the paramedic who finds him and who was the victim of Vacanti's past life hobbies, Peter the rich, neat married snob who experiments with swinging with another couple, Diane Myers the housewife who loves her husband but discovers he is cheating on her, William the killer who can't control his urges and doesn't understand why nobody stops him, and Frank Riva the hard working black man trying to help his wife out of a jam and winds up at the wrong place at the wrong time. All of these characters and situations unraveling nearby as Kat is being stabbed to death in a courtyard between two apartment complexes, with most of these characters passing windows or looking out thinking, "someone will call the police, we shouldn't tie up the lines."

It is a amazing story that played out like any well scripted crime movie, I can't see why this doesn't become a movie. It's just so sad that it is based off of the real murder of Kitty Genovese, it pains me to think that people would just stand by and watch as a woman is murdered in plain view and just think, somebody else will help, but it does happen all the time, every day. I definitely will look for more books by Ryan David Jahn, this novel opened my eyes to his amazing writing and characterization. This is a must read. Best Goodreads First Read I have won and read yet.

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Ratings: 3.63 From 1055 Users | 197 Reviews

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Great book. I found the violence very direct and visceral. I have read many books with vivid violent scenes and not been affected as I was with this book. The writing was excellent, the story many layered and apart from the all too easy wrap up of the Frank/bad cop story line (that was the bit that just did not ring true) I thought it was compelling.



This is an excellent and unusual thriller. The characters are convincing, and almost all of them are sympathetic in some way. It's based on a real - and shocking - event, and Jahn reminds the reader of something that the more extreme crime novels seem to have forgotten: that being knifed to death is a horrible way to die. You know from the start what the outcome will be, but to the end, you hope you are wrong. A real page turner.

This review of Good Neighbors is of a copy of the Penguin Books 2011 edition, received as a free copy from Goodreads First Reads.This is an great first novel giving a fictionalized version of the Kitty Genovese murder. It does an excellent job of trying to show what might have happened on that fatal night and explaining the known facts.The only downside I found was the short chapters and rapid switching of persons and locale made the reading a little choppy. I feel that this is a great device

I guess the fact that the book upset me shows that it was well written. I feel, however that it is a sad commentary of our concept of "Good Neighbors". I live in the same house I grew up in and only know 4 people, and they are left overs from when I lived her as a child. We do not interact any longer. We do not assist- we bank in machines, check our groceries out with out talking to anyone. We pay our bills, bank, etc on the computer. So our connections are severed....never allowed to connect.

Won this book as a Goodreads First Reads and I am at a loss for words. Wow... I mean wow... This book was so packed with action. It really did recall movies such as Crash, 11:14, and Vantage Point. Ryan David Jahn or RDJ does an amazing job of weaving the very busy characters lives that revolve around the brutal murder of Kat. At first as I started the book and the characters were being introduced I said to myself how is RDJ going to pull off this whole story with so many characters in under 300

I was originally going to give this a 2.5 but I bumped it up to 3. The way the characters intertwined in the end was satisfying enough. The book as a whole, however, was just a disappointment to me.This book, as you may or may not know, is inspired by the real life murder that happened long ago of a young woman named Kitty Genovese. Kitty Genovese was stabbed and (trigger warning) raped to death. About 34 neighbors in the apartment complex saw the attack but did not report to the police nor