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Loading... Het geheugenspel (original 1997; edition 1997)by Nicci French
Work InformationThe Memory Game by Nicci French (1997)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. My first Nicci French book. Easy to read and met my criteria of not too many characters to keep a track of. The murder and its circumstances are grisly and the book perhaps goes on just a bit too long as it hashes and rehashes the scene of the crime. Some subplots seem to be left by the way side. A satisfying and interesting read. This book cost me a national title once. Well, at least a shot at one. I settled down with it in bed the night before a Nationals started and at 5am I was still wide awake glued to it. I finished the book...and my chances of playing okay the next day. From a professional faller-asleeper - it is by far the thing at which I shine - this is really saying something. How odd. I've read plenty of this sort of book, it isn't the best written (or the worst by any means). It even has the kiss of death of being written by a couple - who could ever make that work and even if it did, we wouldn't think it did. Yet there is something about the formula - and having read a few more, it is hard to call it anything else - that succeeds in spades. no reviews | add a review
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Detective and mystery stories. You remember an idyllic childhood. But your memory is deceitful. And possibly deadly...When a skeleton is unearthed in the Martellos' garden, Jane Martello is shocked to learn it's that of her childhood friend, Natalie, who went missing twenty-five years ago. Encouraged by a therapist to recover lost memories, Jane hopes to find out what really took place when she was a child - and what happened to Natalie. But in learning the truth about hers and Natalie's past, is Jane putting her own future at terrible risk? No library descriptions found. |
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All about Jane Crane, architect, and her beautiful childhood memories of both her family, and her husband's family. Alan Martello, Jane's larger-than-life, successful writer; father-in-law and master of the Stead, a large, comfortable home to his 4 sons and 1 daughter.Parties of all kinds like mushroom hunting, holiday dinners, barbecues with wonderful 'golden' memories.were held there year after year. But... then Jane's closest friend Natalie Martello goes missing.
Twenty-five years later Jane dissolves her marriage to Claud recognizing her unhappiness but unable to articulate or explain why. The two families are so intertwined and so Jane continues visiting, socializing and cooking at the Stead and plans an extension of the home. It is when she starts digging the area for the extension that the past crashes into the present.
Families are both wonderful and awful.
I found the endless drinking and smoking time-wasting and used as filler material. Other than that, lol, excellent intelligent psychological read.