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Chargement... We Are All the Same in the Dark: A Novel (original 2020; édition 2020)par Julia Heaberlin (Auteur)
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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 books are billed as a slow burn - this one truly is. Set in a small, rural Texas town, this is loaded with family secrets/trauma, a 'famous' cold-case murder, hardscrabble people, childhood traumas, and small-town gossip. It's atmospheric and gothic in tone, with excellent and well-drawn characters - towards the end I was turning pages with a feel of dread of where the narrative would go. There was a scene preceding a narrator switch that I wasn't expecting and was very well done and felt just right for the story being told. Though this doesn't have the fast pacing of a thriller, it's definitely well-written and multilayered in a way that many thrillers don't bother with. Hard to recommend a book like this built on trauma and pain - this is certainly not the right book for every reader. But, if you're drawn to it, it's well worth the read. Trumanell disappeared a decade ago, but people still remember and talk about her. Her brother Wyatt was cleared of any suspicion by police but not by the townsfolk. When he finds a young girl lying in a field, surrounded by dandelions, he picks her up and takes her home, thinking this some sort of sign. He calls Odette, his friend as well as a cop. Odette, too, thinks this girl, escaping from her own tragic past, is a catalyst to solve the mystery. As she cares for this new girl, Odette again digs into the past. But in unearthing the past, she puts in motion a chain of events that threaten the future. It’s a twisty and well put together thriller. As the story unfolds, it is told by various characters who are voiced by four different narrators in the audio version, which adds much enjoyment to the novel. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEOPLE PICK • OPTIONED BY SISTER PICTURES FOR TELEVISION • The discovery of a girl abandoned by the side of the road threatens to unearth the long-buried secrets of a Texas town’s legendary cold case in this superb, atmospheric novel from the internationally bestselling author of Black-Eyed Susans “If you only read one thriller this year, let it be this one. Psychologically absorbing, original and atmospheric. I could not turn the pages fast enough.”—Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author of 28 Summers It’s been a decade since Trumanell Branson disappeared, leaving only a bloody handprint behind. Her pretty face still hangs like a watchful queen on the posters on the walls of the town’s Baptist church, the police station, and in the high school. They all promise the same thing: We will find you. Meanwhile, Tru’s brother, Wyatt, lives as a pariah in the desolation of the old family house, cleared of wrongdoing by the police but tried and sentenced in the court of public opinion and in a new documentary about the crime. When Wyatt finds a lost girl dumped in a field of dandelions, making silent wishes, he believes she is a sign. The town’s youngest cop, Odette Tucker, believes she is a catalyst that will ignite a seething town still waiting for its own missing girl to come home. But Odette can’t look away. She shares a wound that won’t close with the mute, one-eyed mystery girl. And she is haunted by her own history with the missing Tru. Desperate to solve both cases, Odette fights to save the lost girl in the present and to dig up the shocking truth about a fateful night in the past—the night her friend disappeared, the night that inspired her to become a cop, the night that wrote them all a role in the town’s dark, violent mythology. In this twisty psychological thriller, Julia Heaberlin paints unforgettable portraits of a woman and a girl who redefine perceptions of physical beauty and strength. Praise for We Are All the Same in the Dark “This chilling tale of buried sins is relentlessly unpredictable.”—The Times (South Africa) “[Julia] Heaberlin knows how to build to a truly shocking twist, how to break a reader’s heart and then begin mending it. ‘What’s coming is always unimaginable,’ Odette’s one-time therapist tells her, ‘and by that, I mean just that. It cannot be imagined. What’s coming never acts or behaves the way we think it will.’ That’s true for this novel, too.”—The Dallas Morning News. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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We are All the Same in the Dark is a wonderfully crafted murder mystery about a small town in Texas where their beauty, Trumanell Branson, and her father go missing, and 16-year-old Wyatt Branson is the only one who knows their story. On this same night, Wyatt's high school sweetheart, Odett Tucker, loses a leg in an auto accident.
Ten years later, Odett is a deputy in her hometown, Wyatt is still considered for suspicion of murder, and a one-eye girl is found in a field of dandelions, clinging to life.
The twists and turns take shape through the next five years, with another person going missing and several more mysteries cropping up. When Angel, a Trumanell groupie, comes to town, all bets are off as she works to solve not only the missing person cases but the mysteries of this town.
Fabulously written from multiple points of view, there isn't a dull moment or page throughout. I was even pleasantly surprised by whodunnit.
Well done, Julia Heaberlin! ( )