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Hard Rain Mass Market Paperback – March 7, 1989

by Peter Abrahams (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
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After her daughter Kate fails to return home from a weekend with her exhusband, Jessie Shapiro is thrown into a nightmare from the past
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  1. Print length
    352 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Onyx
  4. Publication date
    March 7, 1989
  5. Dimensions
    7 x 1 x 5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0451401131
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0451401137
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Onyx; Reprint edition (March 7, 1989)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0451401131
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0451401137
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1 x 5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 119 ratings

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Peter Abrahams

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Peter Abrahams – “criminally gifted” according to the New York Times Book Review - is the Edgar-award winning author of thirty-seven novels. Named by Stephen King as his “favorite American suspense novelist,” Abrahams is a writer of great range, his work including boundary-pushing crime novels such as Oblivion and End of Story as well as the dog-narrated and New York Times bestselling Chet and Bernie series (written under his pen name, Spencer Quinn), which “radiate pure comic genius” according to Publishers Weekly. On NPR’s Talk of the Nation, Laura Miller called him “the best writer of psychological fiction around.” He also writes for middle-graders - the Queenie and Arthur series, written under the Quinn pen name, began with Ruff vs. Fluff in 2019. Abrahams was born in Boston, graduated from Williams College, and lives on Cape Cod. You can visit him at peterabrahams.com.

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Rebecca Compton
5.0 out of 5 stars A hard rain’s gonna fall…
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2022
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From a Woodstock era lyric to settings in Vietnam, California, and New England, hard rain, indeed, does fall. Nothing is quite as it seems as a mother searches frantically for her missing little girl. This is a page-turner mystery with such well-developed characters, I’m sure I will be pondering it for a long, long time.
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Judy
4.0 out of 5 stars A Mind Bending Thriller
Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2016
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This book was a fast paced thriller that kept the reader wondering what could possibly happen next--and who were these people?? I liked the challenge of trying to make the connections between the characters.
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Addage
5.0 out of 5 stars Child Kidnapping leads to even greater crimes!
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2014
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One of my very favorites. I reread it every few years. Abrahams is always very clever. I enjoy how he weaves the music and culture into the underlying mystery. Hard Rain has a clever plot and excellent pacing. You like his central characters. Kidnapping, Murder and Spies--how can you beat that? I think his earlier works were his best. Highly recommended.
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Patto
3.0 out of 5 stars A very complex missing person case
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2024
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Jessie’s ex-husband fails to bring their daughter back from a sailing weekend. It soon becomes apparent that both he and ten-year-old Kate are missing. The police detective isn’t much help. He even comes on to Jessie.

The man who will be a help is Ivan Zyzmchuck, some sort of federal investigator. He’s been assigned the job of spying on a senator’s wife. But that story line merges into others that eventually bring him into contact with Jessie. There are multiple story lines in this book, and a plethora of characters whose connections to each other will slowly be revealed.

I liked the main characters, Ivan and Jessie, and there’s certainly an amazing twist at the end, but the plot of Hard Rain was just too complicated for me. Usually I like books by Peter Abrahams, and I love everything he writes as Spencer Quinn. But Hard Rain was hard going for me.
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4.0 out of 5 stars You gotta be over 60 to really get it.
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2018
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Love Peter Abraham's ability to develop characters. He can do in three sentences what some writers take 50 pages to do. Hard Rain uses multiple characters (maybe too many, difficult to keep track of) to develop a diabolical plot. But a plot that is steeped in the culture of the 1960's-1970's, one that is so plausible, especially if you lived through the era; it comes together and justifies all the characters that make it happen.
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flogig
5.0 out of 5 stars An Intelligent Thriller
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2017
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Well written and smart, this thriller by Abrahams is full of twists and mystery. I couldn't stop reading but am not surprised. It's the 3rd by this writer that I've read, each of them 5 stars. For a fun read, he can't be beat.
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AnnelleB
5.0 out of 5 stars More twists than a pretzel
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2018
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Very enjoyable read. The plot twists were unexpected and I thought the characters were well developed. Looking forward to reading more by this author.
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mocobe
4.0 out of 5 stars Great story
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2016
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There were too many times I wondered about the common sense of the characters. I had also figured out the mystery pretty early.
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