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When I ordered THE INVISIBLE ONES, I wasn't aware that I'd read one of Stef Penney's novels before, TENDERNESS OF WOLVES, a kind of rambling Jodi Picoult piece with lots of characters. The INVISIBLE ONES is a lot tighter.

Okay, so I ordered the book because of the review I read in the paper which said it was about English gypsies. All right, finally something original. I was familiar with the Irish Travelers because one of the network news magazines did a story on them during the Jon Benet Ramsey murder. Traveler girls start looking for a mate at a rather young age, dolling themselves up much like Jon Benet did. Gypsies and Travelers have a lot in common. They do odd jobs, paving and horse trading and are always on the move, until recently when many of them began living in public housing. They also have a reputation, deserved or not, of thieving. They also marry close relatives and have a distaste for public education.

This story involves part-gypsy private eye Ray Lovell who is hired to find Rose Janko who had disappeared several years before. Rose's father chooses Ray because he's aware of Ray's heredity, although Ray's father left the gypsy life to become a mailman. Ray meets up with the entire Janko family, including Rose's husband, Ivo. It's an entire extended family parked on a farmer's land in trailer houses. They're tough to keep straight. There's a great-uncle, Teno, who seems to be the head of the clan. There's a grandpa and a grandma and a daughter and her son, JJ, who is the point of view character in about half the chapters. Then there's Lulu, JJ's great aunt, who also no longer lives as a gypsy. There's also Christo, Ivo's handicapped son, who has some kind of hereditary disease. Several other male members of the family have died from it. Christo is around six years old.

Ray has some problems of his own. He's going through a divorce and during his investigative process he meets Lulu, who is apparently one of the youngest of the Teno generation and hasn't seen the others in years. She's Teno's sister, but she's a lot younger, and Ray is immediately in lust, although he seems more interested in her red shoes and the sound they make than in her physical attributes. I still don't know what she looked like.

There are some wild twists toward the end; you may need some suspension of disbelief. But at least this is an original mystery about an original subject, something we don't see that often anymore. In other words, no serial killers. I can almost guarantee you will be surprised by the ending.


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The Invisible Ones Stef Penney 9780399157714 Books Reviews

i really started this book not expecting too much having not read this author before.....what a really pleasant surprise!....the gypsy info was really interesting, character development fascinating and the mystery excellent....today you don't often get a book that holds your close attention for extended periods...i think this lady really understands men
I'm constantly on the search for good mysteries that are also well written novels and can stand alone as good literature. They're hard to find, but Stef Penny delivered with her first(?) novel, The Tenderness of Wolves and she does it again here in The Invisible Ones. I loved learning about Gypsy culture, loved the young Gypsy protagonist. The writing is subtle and understated -- you're not going to get a cliff-hanger at the end of every chapter, no gore or overly grissly murders, just a compelling story, well developed characters and slowly unfolding mystery. Read it!
Really enjoyed this book. Great peak into the Romany life
If you like Tana French, you probably will like Stef Penney's "Invisible Ones". Like French's work, this novel is haunting and personal its characters and the leisurely pace of the story are not slow but seductive. This has a good story, a gripping plot, and wonderful characters that are fully developed. It may keep you up at night reading and trying to figure it all out - and you nearly can. ... Or can you?
This novel is very well written, sacrificing nothing to the common mystery genre, and adding to the wealth of novels we have now that constitute mysteries that are also very well written novels with a mystery embedded in them (think Denise Mina, Tana French, etc.). The two primary narrators provide a rich texture and multifaceted approach to intergenerational cross-cultural issues. The mystery narrative itself is solid and and compelling. This is a wonderful second novel from Penney, after The Tenderness of Wolves. She communicates a great sense of place and great psychological insight into her characters without over-stating or over-simplifying how complex human beings are.
This was a riveting story. I'm really not someone who appreciates "modern language," but the story line pulled me through it all. Stef knows how to tell a tale!
It took me a while to get into this book as I was expecting something as exciting and thrilling as her debut novel, "The Tenderness off Wolves", which I enjoyed immensely. I learned a little more about gypsies in reading this book and it did have a surprise ending. However...I enjoyed the author's first book a great deal more.
When I ordered THE INVISIBLE ONES, I wasn't aware that I'd read one of Stef Penney's novels before, TENDERNESS OF WOLVES, a kind of rambling Jodi Picoult piece with lots of characters. The INVISIBLE ONES is a lot tighter.

Okay, so I ordered the book because of the review I read in the paper which said it was about English gypsies. All right, finally something original. I was familiar with the Irish Travelers because one of the network news magazines did a story on them during the Jon Benet Ramsey murder. Traveler girls start looking for a mate at a rather young age, dolling themselves up much like Jon Benet did. Gypsies and Travelers have a lot in common. They do odd jobs, paving and horse trading and are always on the move, until recently when many of them began living in public housing. They also have a reputation, deserved or not, of thieving. They also marry close relatives and have a distaste for public education.

This story involves part-gypsy private eye Ray Lovell who is hired to find Rose Janko who had disappeared several years before. Rose's father chooses Ray because he's aware of Ray's heredity, although Ray's father left the gypsy life to become a mailman. Ray meets up with the entire Janko family, including Rose's husband, Ivo. It's an entire extended family parked on a farmer's land in trailer houses. They're tough to keep straight. There's a great-uncle, Teno, who seems to be the head of the clan. There's a grandpa and a grandma and a daughter and her son, JJ, who is the point of view character in about half the chapters. Then there's Lulu, JJ's great aunt, who also no longer lives as a gypsy. There's also Christo, Ivo's handicapped son, who has some kind of hereditary disease. Several other male members of the family have died from it. Christo is around six years old.

Ray has some problems of his own. He's going through a divorce and during his investigative process he meets Lulu, who is apparently one of the youngest of the Teno generation and hasn't seen the others in years. She's Teno's sister, but she's a lot younger, and Ray is immediately in lust, although he seems more interested in her red shoes and the sound they make than in her physical attributes. I still don't know what she looked like.

There are some wild twists toward the end; you may need some suspension of disbelief. But at least this is an original mystery about an original subject, something we don't see that often anymore. In other words, no serial killers. I can almost guarantee you will be surprised by the ending.