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Sto caricando le informazioni... Girls Who Liedi Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Good, but the ending was a bit unsatisfying and abrupt. I feel like there were notes that should've been more sinister that fell a little flat. Also not thrilled about yet another story hitting those 'very rare' crimes. (You know, the ones that happen far less frequently based on actual records and evidence, but certain people assert they occur all the time and that's why it's necessary to oppress certain other people.) ( ) Having read and been very impressed with The Creak on the Stairs, the first in the Forbidden Iceland series, I was anxious to read the second installment, Girls Who Lie. It did not disappoint. Seven months after her disappearance, the body of Maríanna is found. A troubled single mother, she was thought to have committed suicide, leaving behind her 15-year-old daughter Hekla who seems to have settled happily into her foster home. It soon becomes clear, however, that Maríanna did not abandon her daughter but was brutally murdered. Elma, along with Sævar and Hörður, her CID colleagues in Akranes, investigates, and the number of suspects grows, especially because, as the title suggests, people are not always honest. Interspersed periodically in the present-time case investigation are diary-like confessional entries written by an unknown woman. These first-person passages cover a number of years, beginning fifteen years earlier when she is suffering with post-partum depression. As her daughter grows up, the single mother has difficulty bonding with her child who behaves differently than other children. These sections are heartbreaking and disturbing at the same time. For me, much of the interest in the book lay in trying to find the connection between these events in the past and Maríanna’s death. I appreciated seeing some growth in Elma. Her intelligence and determination are again evident but so is the fact that she is gradually recovering from the trauma that brought her back to Akranes. She is happy in her job, has become accustomed to the smallness of her old hometown, and has developed comfortable working relationships and friendships with colleagues. The novel touches on a number of difficult issues such as psychological manipulation, childhood neglect, suicide, teenage pregnancy, post-partum depression, sexual orientation, and bullying. All are covered sensitively. Certainly some of these traumatic events explain the behaviour of characters. The narrative is very cleverly plotted. One bit of misdirection left me stunned; I made assumptions which I was intended to make but should not have. I didn’t always question inconsistencies and that is my failing as a reader because the author does not cheat. Though there are ample red herrings, all the clues are also there, so that the case’s resolution is satisfying. As does the first book in the series, this one establishes a real sense of place. Anyone who has visited Iceland will recognize the descriptions of setting. I know little about the Icelandic justice system, so enjoyed learning about the country’s treatment of minors. I highly recommend this police procedural. With its intricate plotting and engaging protagonist, this is an accomplished novel that maintains the reader’s interest throughout. Note: Please check out my reader's blog (https://schatjesshelves.blogspot.com/) and follow me on Twitter (@DCYakabuski). nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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When a depressed, alcoholic single mother disappears, everything suggests suicide, but when her body is found, Icelandic Detective Elma and her team are thrust into a perplexing, chilling investigation. When single mother Marianna disappears from her home, leaving an apologetic note on the kitchen table, everyone assumes that she's taken her own life ... until her body is found on the Grak lava fields seven months later, clearly the victim of murder. Her neglected fifteen-year-old daughter Hekla has been placed in foster care, but is her perfect new life hiding something sinister? Fifteen years earlier, a desperate new mother lies in a maternity ward, unable to look at her own child, the start of an odd and broken relationship that leads to a shocking tragedy. Police officer Elma and her colleagues take on the case, which becomes increasingly complex, as the number of suspects grows and new light is shed on Marianna's past and the childhood of a girl who never was like the others... Breathtakingly chilling and tantalizingly twisty, Girls Who Lie is at once a startling, tense psychological thriller and a sophisticated police procedural, marking Eva Bjogisdottir as one of the most exciting new names in crime fiction. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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