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Chargement... Safe Housepar Chris Ewan
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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. Probably between 2 and 3 stars... ( ) This has been marketed as a thriller, but it really lacks the compelling, page-turning quality that "thriller" implies. It has, however, also been marketed as a mystery, which I think is the accurate label. It's an alright book. There's nothing particularly wrong with it, but I have to admit I probably wouldn't have bought it if it hadn't been cheap in the Kindle Store! (Sep 2014)
While the mean streets of Scotland and Northern Ireland have long been the backdrops to crime novels of varying degrees of grittiness, thrillers set on the Isle of Man seem to be in short supply. (Unless you count Agatha Christie's short mystery story "Manx Gold", which was commissioned to go with a real-life treasure hunt.) Chris Ewan obviously expected that a number of his readers wouldn't be acquainted with the place, so there's a handy explainer at the start of Safe House describing its location (half-way between the Lake District and Northern Island) its size (32 miles long and 14 wide), its population (80,000) and the fact that every year the island stages the Isle of Man TT (tourist trophy) motorbike race. All of these facts have a bearing on the book, which whizzes along at the pace of one of those two-wheeled trophy hunters. The action starts with a bang – well, a crash – that sees heating engineer Rob Hale thrown from his motorbike. When he regains consciousness in hospital, the first thing he wants to know is how is Lena, the girl he was giving a lift to. But the doctors insist he was the only one to be picked up in the ambulance. The police officers sent to interview him say the same thing and one (an old friend of Rob's father – this is where the small island, everyone-knows-everyone-else element comes into play) suggests that the recent suicide of Rob's sister Laura is behind both his crash and his talk of a missing blonde. Injured, grieving and angry about being doubted, Rob is determined to prove he's right. He gains a mysterious ally in Rebecca Lewis, a private investigator from London who has been hired, to his surprise, to investigate Laura's death. While Rob is the narrator, it's Rebecca who seems more likely to reappear in a future book. Tough, resourceful and jolly handy with a wrench, she's an appealing action heroine, even if her personality is only lightly sketched in. While Ewan keeps the twists coming, the situations that unfold occasionally feel rather far-fetched. But as to whether the small, rural Isle of Man makes a good setting for a thriller, the answer is aye (as Manx speakers would say), and Rob and Rebecca are engaging company during this ride-by-the-seat-of-your-pants novel. Prix et récompenses
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HTML: How can a beautiful woman simply vanish? When Rob Hale wakes up in a hospital after a motorcycle crash, his first thought is for the gorgeous blonde, Lena, who was on the back of his bike. The doctors and police, however, insist that he was alone at the scene. They claim that the shock of the accident must have made him imagine Lena, especially since his description of her resembles his late sister, Laura. Convinced that Lena is as real as he is, Rob teams up with Rebecca Lewis, a London-based PI who has a mysterious connection to Lauraâ??and learns that even a close-knit community like the Isle of Man can hide dangerous secrets that will not stay safe forever. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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