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Sto caricando le informazioni... Mitigating Circumstances (1993)di Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Een Amerikaanse openbare aanklaagster, verbonden aan de rechtbank in een plaatsje in Californië, wordt samen met haar 13-jarige dochter door een indertijd door haar veroordeelde misdadiger op brute wijze verkracht. Ze is zo door het dolle heen, dat ze het recht in eigen hand neemt en de verkrachter vermoordt. De politie is ervan overtuigd, dat de man door bendeleden gedood is. Een oplettende politiefunctionaris echter brengt de zaak in verbrand met de verkrachting van de openbare aanklaagster, maar doet er tenslotte het zwijgen toe. Een beklemmende thriller, waarin de auteur de emoties van haar hoofdpersoon op indringende wijze schildert. Rake sfeer- en milieutekening. Een zeer lezenswaardige roman. Zwarte omslag met gele en witte belettering en een afbeelding van twee vrouwenogen. This started off well and sucked me in quickly, but my interest lagged towards the end. Whilst it brought up some interesting points about "mitigating circumstances" I felt it could have been explored further and that the ending was a bit of a cop-out. That said, I liked the protagonist and will probably read the sequel to this. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieLily Forrester (1)
D.A. Lily Forrester finds herself trapped in a nightmare of violence when her teenaged daughter is raped and she tries to seek revenge, only to be faced with an endless barrage of personal and professional obstacles. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Lily Forrester, ADA and Chief of the Sex Crimes Division of a city in Southern California, is shaken by a horrifying incident in her daughter Shana's life. She abandons all she knows about crime and punishment and decides to go vigilante. Or I believe we are meant to believe she acts out of blind rage and doesn't realize what she is doing until she has done it.
It's a serious subject and it deserves serious treatment. I don't think Rosenberg is a good enough writer to tackle it. I was irritated all the way through by the actions and thoughts of this supposed champion of law. It just didn't ring true. I kept feeling Lily was making excuse after excuse and so was everyone else. ( )