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Chargement... The Company of Shadows (2010)par Ruth Newman
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is an intriguing listen. It starts a year after Kate's husband Charlie dies in a drowning of the coast of Sicily while they are on holiday. She see some friend's holiday pictures and thinks she sees her husband in the background. And she's off to Miami to see if the mystery man is her husband, or just a lookalike. The first 2 parts of the book involve at least some element of the story being told with flash backs to when they met, got married and to the holiday itself. It was in the later parts of the book that I slightly lost the plot. Was he dead or not? Was he FBI or the mob? What on earth was his real name? It got a bit silly, but it was good enough that I didn't think of stopping. It all worked out in the end, and there were some fabulous character studies along the way. I just felt that sometimes someone would get introduced and used for a particular reason, then dropped. I'm sure if you pieced together who said what at various stages, you'd find some gaping plot holes - it all felt like it wouldn't hang together if really looked at closely. But it zipped along and the lead character was interesting enough that, even when you thought she was being an idiot, you wanted to know how she was going to cope with what turned up next. ( ) Insomma, già l'inizio non convinceva troppo, poi ecco partire la sagra dei luoghi comuni, dove dietro ogni italo-americano si nasconde ovviamente un mafioso, anche dietro gli italo-inglesi si celano famiglie intere di malavitosi e gli agenti di polizia sono tutti dei fessi corruttibili. Ulteriore nota di demerito, oltre al dettaglio non marginale dell'assenza di una trama anche lontanamente credibile, l'effetto mascherina da super eroe: come si fa a dire di amare un uomo e di conoscerlo meglio di se stessi se poi non lo si riconosce perché lui si atteggia in modo diverso?!?! Certo, chi non crede nel 2011 alla storia del fratello gemello segreto che sembra proprio lui ma non è lui... Everyone loves a good resurrection story so when bereft widow Kate grey spots her late husband in the background of friends’ holiday snaps we all hope, DNA evidence notwithstanding, that Charlie is somehow still alive. Determined to discover the identity of the look-alike, Kate’s investigations leads to first to Miami and then to Sicily and, just as she is about to abandon her search, a stranger warns her to desist, fueling her suspicions about the veracity of her husband’s death. Company of Shadows is not only an exciting read it is also a well written excursion down well-trodden paths that while thrillingly familiar, are never clichéd. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Flicking through her friends' holiday snaps, Kate Benson receives a sudden shock. For there in the background is her husband, Charlie. But that's impossible. Because Charlie is dead. Determined to track down the man in the photograph, Kate follows the trail from Miami to Sicily, where Charlie drowned in mysterious circumstances. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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