The Rag and Bone Shop, Robert Cormier
The Rag and Bone Shop, Robert Cormier
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The Rag and Bone Shop

Author: Robert Cormier

Narrator: Scott Shina

Unabridged: 2 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/20/2015

Synopsis

A seven-year-old girl has been bludgeoned to death and buried in a pile of leaves. Although the police have no leads, they are pressured to close the case as soon as possible. So they call in a master interrogator to question 12-year-old Jason, the victim's friend and the last person to see her alive. Although Jason is innocent, he is shy, insecure, and wants to give answers that will satisfy everyone. As the questioning becomes more subtle and probing, the interrogator's goal soon shifts from finding justice to gaining a quick confession from the boy. Robert Cormier's award-winning books include I am the cheese and The Chocolate War. This is the final work he completed before his death in November 2001. It is a gripping examination of the powers of suggestion and a dark vision of how easily the seeds of evil can be planted. Scott Shina's narration conveys both the boy's innocence and the cloud of suspicion that grows around him.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Josiah on October 04, 2024

Oh my, oh my, oh my. I don't feel I am exaggerating one bit when I say this book stands apart from anything that has ever seen publication. I know that's an outrageous claim, but I suspect it's true. Hours after reading it, the panicky, weighty feeling of this book courses through my veins and shado......more

Goodreads review by Rod on October 20, 2020

Massachusetts police call in a Vermont interrogation specialist to see if he can get a confession out of a 12-year-old boy they suspect of killing a 7-year-old girl. Things get pretty intense when the door closes and the questioning begins. Awful dark for a book that seems targeted to a younger audi......more

Goodreads review by Anna on April 11, 2008

The Rag and Bone Shop is an exciting, suspense-filled read that sucks you in and keeps you reading page after page in anticipation of finding out what happens. The premise for the story is that a 12-year-old boy named Jason is the last person to see his 7-year-old friend alive. Her brutally murdered......more

Goodreads review by Scott on April 03, 2008

Because my writing and books are compared to Robert Cormier, I've been on a reading binge lately with regards to his stuff. You will see a large list of his books that I've read in the last month or so. The Rag and Bone Shop: My favorite of Cormier's work. The suspense will keep the reader on the edg......more

Goodreads review by Gerhard on July 07, 2017

I do not know of any other so-called YA author who quite so comfortably and effortlessly crossed the increasingly indistinct border between novels for younger readers and novels for adult readers in the course of his writing career. (I personally hate these rather artificial boundaries that are impo......more

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