Patricia Sprinkle
Auteur de Death on the Family Tree
A propos de l'auteur
Patricia Sprinkle was born in West Virginia, but grew up in North Carolina and Florida. After graduating from Vasser College where she studied creative writing, Sprinkle spent a year writing in the Scottish Highlands. Sprinkle has written non-fiction articles for religious magazines such as afficher plus Guideposts and has also written educational materials on hunger. Sprinkle enjoys reading mysteries, and since 1988, Sprinkle has written twenty mystery novels. Sprinkle and her husband live in Georgia. They have two grown children. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Patricia Sprinkle
Women Home Alone: Learning to Thrive- Help for Single Women, Single Moms, Widows, and Wives Who Are Frequently Alone (1996) 17 exemplaires
The Birthday Book: First 50 Years 5 exemplaires
Don't Eat This Book 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Malice Domestic 4: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (1995) — Contributeur — 56 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Sprinkle, Patricia
- Nom légal
- Sprinkle, Patricia Houck
- Date de naissance
- 1943-11-13
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
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Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 34
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 2,298
- Popularité
- #11,180
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 41
- ISBN
- 134
- Langues
- 3
- Favoris
- 5
I really enjoyed the setting of a small town in 1950. It's just over 400 pages and there is quite a bit that happens during the course of the book but it was a slower paced book and I really enjoyed that. Carley often pretends that she has a radio show and talks to her listeners and I thought that was a really interesting way of filling the reader in on what was happening.
There was some heavy content but for the most part it was softened because it's told through Carley's point of view. For example someone is raped but Carley overhears a conversation and doesn't understand why someone would tape the girl. As a reader you're able to put all the puzzle pieces together and figure out what happened but it was easier to read because it wasn't told in a graphic way. There is also domestic violence and an unsolved murder and one scene that I didn't like where she inadvertently sees a husband and wife at an intimate moment in their bedroom.
One quote I liked was "So I decided to heed the Bible's wisdom that God helps those who help themselves." "Actually, that's Ben Franklin," Uncle Stephen interrupted apologetically. "God's far more likely to help those who can't help themselves."
Overall though I quite enjoyed this book.
This book was reviewed on the Literary Club Podcast episode 59
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1984185… (plus d'informations)