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Cargando... Dear Daughter (2015)por Elizabeth Little
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Fun read, original voice, well executed. ( ) You won’t understand the title of DEAR DAUGHTER until nearly the end, and in the end you’ll be left hanging. I haven’t decided how negative to feel about that. Maybe three stars isn’t enough. After all, I did enjoy it until the end. Jane has been in jail for the past 10 years. She was convicted of her mother’s murder, but she doesn’t think she did it. She doesn’t remember. But she does remember finding the body and hiding in a closet while she heard someone say things. Because evidence was mishandled in her case, Jane’s lawyer, Noah, gets her out after 10 years. She decides right away that she needs to find out who murdered her mother. So, on the basis of things she overheard while she was in the closet, she travels to a small town in South Dakota. And now Jane has a mystery to solve. This entire book takes place in about a week. Everyone Jane meets in the small South Dakota town, with one exception, has lived there all their lives. That’s not very realistic, but just go with it. It’s a neat little mystery. I didn’t find it predictable at all, my problem with many other mysteries. So I enjoyed it. But it left me hanging. I had too many questions in the end. Janie ha ventotto anni, ma gli ultimi dieci li ha trascorsi in prigione, in cella di isolamento. Proprio lei, ragazza bella e ricca di Beverly Hills, viziata reginetta del liceo. Accusata di aver ucciso sua madre Marion, una donna esigente con cui non aveva un bel rapporto. Tutte le prove erano contro di lei. Ma Janie ha sempre creduto di essere innocente. Ricorda poco della notte dell'omicidio, lo shock le ha confuso la mente, ma sa di aver sentito sua madre avere un alterco con uno sconosciuto e rammenta un nome, Adeline. E adesso che il suo avvocato è riuscito a farla uscire, Janie deve dimostrare di non essere colpevole. Adeline è una città dell'Illinois. E lì che Janie deve andare se vuole capire la verità. Una città piccola e sperduta in mezzo alla campagna. Una comunità chiusa che guarda con sospetto e ostilità la nuova arrivata. E che nasconde tutte le risposte che Janie cerca. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Premios
Fiction.
Literature.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML: ? Winner of the Strand Critics Award for Best First Novel ? Nominated for the Barry and Macavity Awards for Best First Novel ? Longlisted for the CWA John Creasy (New Blood) Dagger Award ??Quick-witted and fast-paced, this debut mystery should be a hit with Gone Girl fans.? ??People magazine "This is an all-nighter . . . The best debut mystery I've read in a long time."??Tana French ??A really gutsy, clever, energetic read, often unexpected, always entertaining. I loved Janie Jenkins??s sassy voice and Elizabeth Little??s too. In the world of crime novels, Dear Daughter is a breath of fresh air.? ??Kate Atkinson, New York Times bestselling author of Life After Life A sensational debut thriller featuring an unforgettable heroine who just might have murdered her mother Former ??It Girl? Janie Jenkins is sly, stunning, and fresh out of prison. Ten years ago, at the height of her fame, she was incarcerated for the murder of her mother, a high-society beauty known for her good works and rich husbands. Now, released on a technicality, Janie makes herself over and goes undercover, determined to chase down the one lead she has on her mother??s killer. The only problem? Janie doesn??t know if she??s the killer she??s looking for. Janie makes her way to an isolated South Dakota town whose mysteries rival her own. Enlisting the help of some new friends (and the town??s wary police chief), Janie follows a series of clues??an old photograph, an abandoned house, a forgotten diary??and begins to piece together her mother??s seemingly improbable connection to the town. When new evidence from Janie??s own past surfaces, she??s forced to consider the possibility that she and her mother were more alike than either of them would ever have imagined. As she digs tantalizingly deeper, and as suspicious locals begin to see through her increasingly fragile facade, Janie discovers that even the sleepiest towns hide sinister secrets??and will stop at nothing to guard them. On the run from the press, the police, and maybe even a murderer, Janie must choose between the anonymity she craves and the truth she so desperately needs. A gripping, electrifying debut novel with an ingenious and like-it-or-not sexy protagonist, Dear Daughter follows every twist and turn as Janie unravels No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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