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Cargando... The War Widow (2019)por Tara Moss
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Billie Walker takes over her deceased father's Personal Inquiry business in Sydney, Australia, just after she returns from covering World War II as a reporter. She married Jack Rake who was a photographer during the war but he went missing near the end of it. Samuel acts as her secretary and investigation assistant as she accepts the case of the disappearance of Aden Brown, a 17 year old, after he goes to The Dancer club one night. Her investigation leads to child sexual abuse, stolen artifacts and Franz Hessmann, a Nazi, WWII war criminal. Throughout this book Billie is always very concerned about her and her assistant's sartorial appearance. She loves Fighting Red lipstick. ( ) If you’re wanting a glamourous private Australian private investigator as a intelligent protagonist set in the late 1940’s the Billie Walker series is for you. In searching for a missing boy, Billy and her assistant, Samuel, find themselves involved in the selling of Jewish antiques by former Nazi officers. This storyline meshes with the abdication of aboriginal girls who became sex slaves. Because of the title and references to her missing husband, I kept expecting a subplot where he suddenly shows up and Billie starts looking at other men romantically. I imagine more of this theme will appear in later books in the series. Pretty Little Wife historical-novel, historical-places-events, historical-research, private-investigators**** Investigator Billie Walker takes over her late father's private inquiry agency in Sydney after returning from her wartime job as a reporter in Paris in 1946 without her missing and presumed dead husband. A distraught mother wants Billie to find her missing teenage son. Along with her trusty assistant Sam they start looking into the boy's last known movements. Then the danger becomes much too threatening and personal. The story is told in flashbacks and switchbacks, not my favorite format. But it well told. This is best read in long stretches to avoid continuity issues. I requested and reviewed a free ebook copy from PENGUIN GROUP Dutton via NetGalley. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! The war may be officially over, but journalist Billie Walker's search for a missing young immigrant man will plunge her right back into the danger and drama she thought she'd left behind in Europe in this thrilling tale of courage and secrets set in glamorous postwar Sydney. Sydney, 1946. Though war correspondent Billie Walker is happy to finally be home, for her the heady postwar days are tarnished by the loss of her father and the disappearance in Europe of her husband, Jack. To make matters worse, now that the war is over, the newspapers are sidelining her reporting talents to prioritize jobs for returning soldiers. But Billie is a survivor and she's determined to take control of her own future. So she reopens her late father's business, a private investigation agency, and, slowly, the women of Sydney come knocking. At first, Billie's bread and butter is tailing cheating husbands. Then, a young man, the son of European immigrants, goes missing, and Billie finds herself on a dangerous new trail that will lead up into the highest levels of Sydney society and down into its underworld. What is the young manâ??s connection to an exclusive dance club and a high-class auction house? When the people Billie questions about the young man start to turn up dead, Billie is thrown into the path of Detective Inspector Hank Cooper. Will he take her seriously or will he just get in her way? As the danger mounts and Billie realizes that much more than one young manâ??s life is at stake, it becomes clear that though the war was won, it is far from No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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