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Cargando... Dance for the Dead , A Jane Whitefield Novel (1996 original; edición 1997)por Thomas Perry (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Fair thriller about Jane Whitefield, who guides fugitives from the law or criminals. Excellent. The book opens with a woman fighting off 3 attackers outside a courtroom, then takes us into the court hearing of a young boy who had witnessed his parents' murders. The story grabs us, even tho we don't know what's going on. And it seems there is more than one person needing help: is there a connection? Jane Whitefield specializes in 'hiding' people: helping them escape from others who would hunt them down with nefarious intent. We might assume it has something to do with her Seneca heritage, but that is never explicitly stated. It might have more to do with her intense awareness of what is happening around her, and her quick mind. She says she doesn't judge others, is college-educated and can fit in with the elite as easily as with the rejects of society. There is an early interesting scene with an elderly widower, but then he has no role in the rest of the book. I can only assume he's going to show up in a future novel. I'm looking forward to it. This book reminds me strongly of another heroine justice-maker. Perhaps Jane Yellowrock, in Faith Hunter's series, but I'm thinking more of another shapeshifter in the southwest...finally tracked her down: Nettie Lonesome, in Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen. PLOT OR PREMISE: Jane Whitefield is back and trying to guide an 8-year-old boy with an inheritance and a 30-year-old woman with stolen bank money to a safe haven. . WHAT I LIKED: The methodology for how Jane helps everyone is quite good, and reads both simple and plausible, a veneer of realism that sells the stories. The explanations for both cases are relatively clear, you understand the motives and why someone is coming after the two of them. Most of the story is a cat and mouse world, and it works well. . WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE: The two stories seem unconnected at the beginning but it blindlingly obvious they will eventually connect, even if it is a connection told in reverse (i.e. if you know the connection in advance, you can write two separate stores to get there), but it seems coincidental rather than natural. There are also two really long expositions, one at the beginning for the kid's back story and one in the middle for hers. Finally, there is some romance that comes out of nowhere for the character, particularly as you have been in her head for sometime and then it's like, "Cue the romance scene with guy she knows but we don't.". . DISCLOSURE: I received no compensation, not even a free copy, in exchange for this review. I am not personal friends with the author, nor do I follow him / her on social media. I discovered not long ago that I had missed a couple in the Jane Whitfield series. A wonderful discovery, I might add. In this one Jane screws up (a pretty major departure if you've read any of the others) and four people get killed. A lot of the Jane Whitfiled plots are indistinguishable from one another but that does not make them any less fascinating or any less enjoyable to read. This is another good one. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:??Compelling . . . Nobody writes a chase better than [Thomas] Perry.???The Washington Post Book World Jane Whitefield is the patron saint of the pursued, a Native American ??guide? who specializes in making victims vanish. Calling on the ancient wisdom of the Seneca tribe and her own razor-sharp cunning, she conjures up new identities for people with nowhere left to run. She's as quick and quiet as freshly fallen show, and she covers a trail just as completely. But when a calculating killer stalks an innocent eight-year-old boy, Jane faces dangerous obstacles that will put her powers??and her life??to a terrifying test. . . . Praise for Dance for the Dead ??Spellbinding . . . Terrific . . . Jane Whitefield may be the most arresting protagonist in the 90s thriller arena. . . . Thrillers need good villains, and this one has a formidable SOB who is cold-blooded enough to satisfy anybody's taste.???Entertainment Weekly ??A terse thriller . . . Perry starts the story with a bang.???San Francisco Chronicle ??One of the most engaging heroines in contemporary suspe No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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