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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I love her writing style and the characters are strong and well-rounded, but the premise is little bit too much sought after in my opinion. The book is also a bit too long in my opinion. ( ) I love how Tana French writes characters and dialogue. More specifically, I *love* her characters. Really feel for them. This book (and the first in the series) do really well as audiobooks, too. You know how you have a good audiobook when you take the long commute home, or you sneak away for 10-15 min at work here and there to finish up the book? That. why do the shortest books always pack the most punch? it's because they have less words aka they need to get straight to the point and keep the story moving vs having a bunch of fluff words.. although loneliness is not mentioned, it is a feeling one gets while reading the book. the narrator is frustrated at work because she is a woman and the men make her do tasks around the office that anybody is capable of, but since she's a woman she is assigned to them on top of own work/responsibilities. so what does she do to get out of the menial tasks and to be treated better? she fakes a pregnancy!! she fakes being pregnant to be treated better.. what? she is treated better by her all male office, but you start to wonder how will this end for her? and how can this end well?
Although she overburdens the traditional police-procedural form with the weight of romance, psychological suspense, social history and mythic legend, she sets a vivid scene for her complex characters, who seem entirely capable of doing the unexpected. Tolv år gamle Adam Ryan lekte i skogen sammen med de to beste vennene sine en vakker solkinnsdag.Han så dem aldri igjen.Tjue år senere er Adam, eller Rob som han kaller seg nå, etterforsker i Dublin-politiet. Kollegene kjenner ikke til bakgrunnen hans som offer for en forbrytelse. Partneren hans er Cassie Maddox. Rob og Cassie får saken da en jente blir funnet drept på et steinalter midt i en arkeologisk utgravning. Først da de kommer til åstedet skjønner Rob at dette er det samme stedet som der vennene hans forsvant den gangen for lenge siden.Og da de finner en hårspenne som han gjenkjenner som en venninnen hans hadde, melder spørsmålet seg: Er det en sammenheng mellom det som skjedde den gangen og mordet de skal etterforske nå? Rob vet at dersom han avslører sin fortid for andre enn Cassie kommer han til å bli tatt av saken; han tar en skjebnesvanger avgjørelse om å tie. Sammen med Cassie skal han oppklare mordet på Katy Devlin, og han håper at han dermed også vil løse gåten i sin egen fortid. Is contained inAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. She's transferred out of the murder squad and started a relationship with Detective Sam O'Neill, but she's too badly shaken to make a commitment to him or to her career. Then Sam calls her to the scene of his new case: a young woman found stabbed to death in a small town outside Dublin. The dead girl's ID says her name is Lexie Madison--the identity Cassie used years ago as an undercover detective--and she looks exactly like Cassie--From publisher description. No library descriptions found. |
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