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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Christmas Journey (originale 2003; edizione 2004)di Anne Perry (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Well narrated and recommended. Nice to play on Christmas Eve while preparing for supper. ( ) Despunta el invierno y en una espléndida casa rural inglesa se celebra una velada al resguardo del frío, entre candelabros, ramilletes de muérdago y buen vino. Es el peor escenario para el infortunio y nadie, ni siquiera la intuitiva aristócrata Vespasia Cumming-Gould, podría haber previsto una tragedia que sume en brumas e l ambiente festivo. La joven Gwendolen Kilmuir se ha suicidado y hay otra, Isobel Alvie, a quien se culpa de los hechos: de su boca salió un comentario amargo sobre el compromiso de la fallecida con un rico heredero. El misterio, sin embargo, envuelve la carta que Gwendolen escribió antes de dar fin a su vida. Es Isobel quien, sintiéndose culpable, parte hacia Escocia en compañía de su amiga Vespasia para entregar el documento a la madre de Gwendolen, buscar el perdón y poder enmendar su funesta conducta. Pero durante el largo viaje Vespasia irá descubriendo algunos secretos sobre la víctima que la llevarán a comprender la oscura verdad que se escondía tras la tragedia. Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould, in her much younger self in the mid-19th Century accompanies a friend on a mission of expiation after she makes a casually cruel remark at a country house party that causes another of the guests to commit suicide. I found this plot to be rather over-wrought, but given the author’s strange religious beliefs, not unexpected. This is one of Anne Perry's short Christmas novellas that she churns out every holiday. This installment centers around Charlotte Pitt's Aunt Vespacia in her much younger days.. Lady Vespasia Cummin-Gould is at a pre-holiday house party when a waspish remark so upsets one of the guests that she commits suicide. What results is a journey of expiation that is fairly preposterous with the moral implications being dealt with a very heavy hand. Not one of Ms. Perry's best efforts. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML: Readers of Anne Perry's bestselling suspense novels revel in a world that is all their own, sharing the privileged existence of Britain's wealthy and powerful elite in West End mansions and great country houses. It is also a world in which danger bides in unsuspected places and the line between good and evil can be razor thin. This new novel features Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould - one of the most memorable characters from the Thomas Pitt series - who appears here as a lively young woman, the ultimate aristocrat who can trace her blood to half the royal houses of Europe. .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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