Duplicate keys

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Jane Smiley: Duplicate keys (1984, Cape)

305 pages

English language

Published June 28, 1984 by Cape.

ISBN:
978-0-224-02181-4
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OCLC Number:
11360398

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3 stars (1 review)

They were six friends from the Midwest who moved to New York City with the high hopes of making a big-time splash in the music industry. Though the dream faded, the bonds between the tight-knit group did not. Or so it seemed. For one brilliantly sunny day, Alice Ellis discovers the grisly murders of two of the group, shot dead in the apartment for which any number of friends, acquaintances, and strangers had an extra set of keys. Written with the depth and passion of Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Thousand Acres, Duplicate Keys is a riveting suspense story about the emotional aftermath of murder - the jealousy and hatred, the deception and rage, and the shocking secrets that lie between even the closest of friends.

9 editions

Couldn't get into it fully, but finished

3 stars

I'm not sure what to say about this one.

I had heard about it from a list of mysteries. This isn't written like a mystery though.

I couldn't understand what the author was going for in the beginning, but the writing was clear. About half-way through, it dives into the psyche of all the characters; which was interesting. Then it ends like a mystery with a sum-up.

Maybe I was just in the wrong frame of mind to see the themes. I'd be interested to see what others think of the writing and characters.