Laine Cunningham
Autore di Seven Sisters: Spiritual Messages from Aboriginal Australia
Opere di Laine Cunningham
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Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Hillsborough, North Carolina, USA
- Breve biografia
- Laine Cunningham is a multi-award-winning author whose work has ranked alongside Pulitzer Prize winning authors William Styron and Horton Foote. Beloved is her second novel.
Her debut novel, The Family Made of Dust, received two national literary awards. Reparation, Laine's latest, received Honorable Mention for the 2016 Writer's Digest ebook award.
Her nonfiction works include Seven Sisters: Spiritual Messages from Aboriginal Australia, a self-help book. The memoir detailing her funny and soulful six-month solo camping journey in the Australian Outback is called Woman Alone.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 14
- Utenti
- 44
- Popolarità
- #346,250
- Voto
- 4.3
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 16
What an excellent read it was too. A fast-paced, intriguing, exciting, disturbing psychological crime thriller which is in the James Patterson mould, but with an extra adult twist in the language used at times as well as the nature of crimes committed.
Our hero is a female FBI agent with more than her fair share of baggage. The product of a violent gang rape, Priya must battle her own demons as well as the local law enforcement prejudice/inexpertise to track down and apprehend not one but two very different serial killers. This she does with the help of a local sheriff who adds a love interest to this multidimensional novel.
The story is filled with twists and turns and the suspense is palpable. It is very well done. Laine Cunningham's style pulls no punches however. At times her narrative is brutal, shocking, but that all adds to the feel of this gritty tale and in a curious sort of way the language was not out of place at all. As you read on you can't help but identify and empathise with Priya and the other characters. You loathe some, and root for/love others. If you like crime thrillers, do yourself a favour and give this a try, for all in all this is a very entertaining read. Be warned, it's for adults only though.
I will certainly be reading more from this supremely talented author.… (altro)