The Dead Key

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2014 Winner Breakthrough Novel Award Grand Prize and Mystery Thriller Fiction Winner It s 1998, and for years the old First Bank of Cleveland has sat abandoned, perfectly preserved, its secrets only speculated on by the outside world.Twenty years before, amid strange staff disappearances and allegations of fraud, panicked investors sold Cleveland s largest bank in the middle of the night, locking out customers and employees, and thwarting a looming federal investigation In the confusion that followed, the keys to the vault s safe deposit boxes were lost.In the years since, Cleveland s wealthy businessmen kept the truth buried in the abandoned high rise The ransacked offices and forgotten safe deposit boxes remain locked in time, until young engineer Iris Latch stumbles upon them during a renovation survey What begins as a welcome break from her cubicle becomes an obsession as Iris unravels the bank s sordid past With each haunting revelation, Iris follows the looming shadow of the past deeper into the vault and soon realizes that the key to the mystery comes at an astonishing price. 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Pulley For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This has garnered some mixed reviews After much deliberation, I ve concluded this was a 5 read for me I m not sure how kosher some of the details of the banks security is.though, I assume the author isn t going to divulge trade secrets The story alternates between two time frames and it starts in 1978 with Beatrice Baker, who is being interviewed at the First Bank of Cleveland and subsequently ends up working on the ninth floor in the Auditing Department despite being sixteen years This has garnered some mixed reviews After much deliberation, I ve concluded this was a 5 read for me I m not sure how kosher some of the details of the banks security is.though, I assume the author isn t going to divulge trade secrets The story alternates between two time frames and it starts in 1978 with Beatrice Baker, who is being interviewed at the First Bank of Cleveland and subsequently ends up working on the ninth floor in the Auditing Department despite being sixteen years old There she meets Maxine Rae McDonnell, and the two soon become friends Not long after starting, she s asked by Randy Hallora...If I were rating the 1970s storyline and characters, this would have easily been 5 stars, but the 1998 portions were awful I couldn t stand the lead character who was supposedly so smart she graduated in five years summa cum laude, but was a dumb girl who did stupid things, made awful choices and was just a generally unlikable person There were a lot of points where I had to suspend my disbelief because my mother helped run a bank in the 70s, and things were nothing like this I continued read If I were rating the 1970s storyline and characters, this would have easily been 5 stars, but the 1998 portions were awful I couldn t stand the lead character who was...I got the Dead Key because it was a winner ins Breakthrough Novel contest All I can say is there s absolutely nothing breakthrough about this unless you consider extravagantly flowery prose to be something special The plot is generic, there is nothing new or refreshing and worst of all the characters are all exceptionally stupid as a few others have pointed out What were the contest judges thinking From page ONE I knew the author knew nothing about her subject and that ruined it I got the Dead Key because it was a winner ins Breakthrough Novel contest All I can say is there s absolutely nothing breakthrough about this unless you consider extravagantly flowery prose to be something special The plot is generic, there is nothing new or refreshing and worst of all the characters are all exceptionally stupid as a few others have pointed out What were the contest judges thinking From page ONE I knew the author knew nothing about her subject and that ruined it for me Did D.M Pulley ever set foot in a real bank I don t think so, apparently she only...I found it amazing that you could just shut down a bank and leave everything as it is for twenty years That was a very interesting idea for a book We get to follow Iris in the present time as she tries to unravel the bank s past and we also get to know Beatrice that worked at the bank in 1978, the year that the bank closed down Slowly the myste...This book is amazing I m not usually one for mysteries, but this book was truly riveting I read it in less than 24 hours and that s no mean feat for someone who worksthan full time This novel keeps you guessing right til the end You ll wonder if the protagonist gets out of it ...Bell, Book Candle The Dead Key Review GiveawayThere should really be a guidebook about how to survive in scary situations and everyone should be required to read it Here let me start off with an important rule Rule 1 Mind your own business.Someone lied, curiosity didn t kill the cat If you have noticed, cats are so unbothered by anyone else s agenda Oh no, curiosity killed nosy people For some reason certain people just have to know the answer to everything Iris and Beatric Bell, Book Candle The Dead Key Review GiveawayThere should really be a guidebook about how to survive in scary situations and everyone should be required to read it Here let me start off with an important rule Rule 1 Mind your own business.Someone lied, curiosity didn t kill the cat If you have noticed, cats are so unbothered by anyone else s agenda Oh no, curiosity killed nosy people For some reason certain people just have to know the answer to everything Iris and Beatrice, the protagonists, are prime examples.I was waiting for these women to be chopped to bits and found in an industrial sized freezer years later Let s be honest, that would have happened in real life At least Beatrice had the sense to be careful with her pseudo investigation Iris just let it all hang out figuratively speaking I kept hitting my forehead in response to her ridiculous actions Just the way she went about ...The Dead Key is D.M Pulley s first book and the winner of the 2014Breakthrough Novel Award Grand Prize and Mystery Thriller Fiction Winner After reading and being immersed in this mystery, I can understand the awards I lived and worked in Downtown Cleveland during both protagonists time periods and find this to be an intriguing fictional history and mystery of what happened to the old bank in 1978 and 1998 at 9th and Euclid.Two timelines and protagonists come together to solve the my The Dead Key is D.M Pulley s first book and the winner of the...I really am debating between two and three stars The book is a mystery that goes back and forth between 1978 and 1998 The 1978 side of the story is farinteresting, and the characters are reasonablylikable Unfortunately the 1998 story is the main story, and the main character is a total loser She is supposedly a super smart engineer that is driven to succeed, but she continually smokes, gets drunk, sleeps around, and is all around lazy I did not sympathize with her at all I also I really am debatin...The star of this novel isn t any of the characters it s the eerie, brooding presence of the First Bank of Cleveland, a looming hulk which was inexplicably abandoned twenty years before the book begins, with all its furniture and files and trappings intact right down to the paper clips in the secretarial pool s drawers.Into this Flying Dutchman of a building comes recent engineering grad Iris Latch on a thankless assignment, and right away in the first chapter the author sets in motion an intrigu The star of this novel isn t any of the characters it s the eerie, brooding presence of the First Bank of Cleveland, a looming hulk which was inexplicably abandoned twenty years before the book begins, with all its furniture and files and trappings intact right down to the paper clips in the secretarial pool s drawers.Into this Flying Dutchman of a building comes recent engineering grad Iris Latch on a thankless assignment, and right away in the first chapter the author sets in motion an intriguing mystery that alternates between two protagonists in two different eras Everyon...Iris Latch is unhappy in her new job at a Cleveland engineering firm She s always been a bit lazy, a bit lackluster..and now that she s graduated from college and has student loans to pay, she isn t enjoying her adult life at all She gets handed grunt work to do.and hates it Then, out of nowhere, she is asked to complete a special project She is to draw floor plans for the First Bank of Cleveland building The bank closed 20 years before in 1978 after a scandal of some sort involving s Iris Latch is unhappy in her new job at a Cleveland engineering firm She s always been a bit lazy, a bit lackluster..and now that she s graduated from college and has student loans to pay, she isn t enjoying her adult life at all She gets handed grunt work to do.and hates it Then, out of nowhere, she is asked to complete a special project She is to draw floor plans for the First Ba...

The Dead Key
  • English
  • 24 May 2017
  • Kindle Edition
  • 477 pages
  • D.M. Pulley
  • The Dead Key