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Chargement... The Other Woman's House: A Zailer and Waterhouse Mystery (A Zailer & Waterhouse Mystery Book 6) (original 2011; édition 2012)par Sophie Hannah (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreLasting Damage par Sophie Hannah (2011)
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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. Lots of twists and turns that kept me guessing to the end. A good read. ( ) There was a point in reading this book, probably about 3/4 of the way through, where I thought I would give it four stars. After all, I was intrigued enough to spend my entire day yesterday reading it. Hannah had a good hook; I needed to know if the main character was as batshit insane as she seemed to be. Or was she just a basket case? There is a difference. The former is a killer. The latter just makes everyone around them miserable. At least that's my take. Definitions may vary. When I finished, I said, "No way this convoluted mystery deserves more than three." Like every other mystery out there, Hannah spent a large chunk of the end of the novel telling us everything we didn't have enough information to figure out ourselves. She did it once, with three detectives stuck in traffic - that's ten pages I'll never get back - and then again with the killer and his final victim. What made no sense being told by third parties made a tiny bit more with the crazy person involved, but unfortunately not much. When I was composing my review in my head last night in bed, I realized I hated every character. I'm not exaggerating. Every character. There were two characters involved in a - I feel like I'm insulting the word sub-plot here, but I can't think of an alternative - subplot that was, basically, the question of whether or not they should give out the hotel phone number of a detective on his honeymoon. Well, they did manage to do one other thing, illustrate how reprehensible, narcissistic and neurotic a character who had no narrative point was. I felt so sorry for the character she married. It's no wonder he never wants to have sex with her. On the other hand, what was the purpose of that point the author kept driving home? It had zero relevance to the story. Honestly... Good lord. I just discovered this book is part of a series. Okay, then these pointless characters and story lines make a little more sense. Unfortunately, it doesn't make them any more pointless. The blurbs keep calling this "the beloved Zailer and Waterhouse series" which I find hilarious. I can't imagine Charlie and Simon being beloved to any reader. They were the two most insufferable characters I've read in my entire life. With all those complaints, why am I giving it two stars? Even though I hated the characters, they were well drawn and fully realized. Hannah's writing is clear. Her dialogue is natural. I would read a novel by Hannah outside of the Zailer and Waterhouse series, but there is no way I ever want to spend another minute with those characters. They are going to have a miserable marriage.
Hannah's latest psychological thriller combines quirky police procedural with shrewdly observed domestic deceit. Told with confidence and panache, Hannah challenges the reader to work out who the paranoiac of the piece really is. So far, so good. Unfortunately the next 250 pages of this novel are mostly one long side-issue, again as I’ve come to expect from this author. We learn a great deal about Connie’s state of mind, her relationships with her homoeopathic therapist Alice (a character from an earlier book), her parents, sister, husband and so on. We are also told more events in the lives of the confused romantics who inhabit Spilling police station. This is a jaw-droppingly assured book which sometimes feels as if there’s a plot twist on every page. Connie thinks she might be going mad and the reader thinks she might be right for there is simply no rational explanation for what is going on around her. Into this mix steps the enigmatic figure of Simon Waterhouse, now newly married, the policeman hero of all her crime fiction novels who one day is destined to be up there with the Poirots, the Marples and the Sherlock Holmeses of detective fiction if Hannah keeps up this standard of writing. The threads are tied up at the end with the reader informed how the tortuous chain of events unfolded and yet another audacious plot twist totally confounds the expectations you had at the beginning of the book. This reader was left speechless with admiration. Appartient à la sériePrix et récompenses
"It's past midnight, but Connie can't sleep. To pass the time, she logs onto a real estate website in search of a particular house, the address of which was mysteriously in the GPS of her car that afternoon. As she clicks through the virtual tour of 11 Bentley Grove, she's shocked to see the body of a woman, lying face down on the living room floor in a pool of blood. But when she returns to show her husband Kit moments later, there is no body, no blood- only an ordinary beige carpet in an ordinary living room. Once again featuring detectives Charlotte (Charlie) Zailer and Simon Waterhouse" -- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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