AccueilGroupesDiscussionsPlusTendances
Site de recherche
Ce site utilise des cookies pour fournir nos services, optimiser les performances, pour les analyses, et (si vous n'êtes pas connecté) pour les publicités. En utilisant Librarything, vous reconnaissez avoir lu et compris nos conditions générales d'utilisation et de services. Votre utilisation du site et de ses services vaut acceptation de ces conditions et termes.

Résultats trouvés sur Google Books

Cliquer sur une vignette pour aller sur Google Books.

Chargement...

I.O.U. (1991)

par Nancy Pickard

Séries: Jenny Cain (7)

MembresCritiquesPopularitéÉvaluation moyenneMentions
2404110,997 (3.44)9
Winner of the Agatha Award and finalist for the Edgar Award. Jenny explores her own family's unsettling, mysterious past, beginning with her mother's death in the seventh book in the award-winning Jenny Cain mystery series that was called "excellent" by Publishers Weekly. The layered plot of the latest in the excellent Jenny Cain series finds the Port Frederick, Mass., sleuth probing the cause of her recently deceased mother's insanity. Cain discovers that her mother's mental collapse many years before coincided with the bankruptcy of the family business. The closing of Cain Clams created considerable unemployment locally and countless enemies for the Cains--one such foe may now be trying to prevent the amateur detective from delving further into her family's past and the town's secrets. As she tracks down public mysteries, Cain unearths painful personal issues; an attempt on her life, construed as an effort at suicide, forces her to deal with the legacy of her mother's madness. Pickard masterfully resolves both plot lines in this affecting, provocative novel centering around the mystery at the heart of mother-daughter relationships.… (plus d'informations)
Aucun
Chargement...

Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre

Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.

» Voir aussi les 9 mentions

4 sur 4
I have read many of Nancy Pickard's cozies and remember that I really liked her writing style, never got bored or lost. I had I.O.U on my to be read since 1991.

This particular book centers not on an investing a murder but her mother's death and her father's loss of a business that been in the family for generations. Jenny Cain displays an overload of emotional reactions to people's statements and actions. This does not happen in most cozies!. I struggled to get through the first three chapters. I almost stopped reading! But later in the book, her therapist who was also a close childhood friend advised that she was not crazy and that what she needed to do was to investigate what was bothering her as if it was and actual case. That calmed both her and the book down. Hooray!

Not being close to her father was her father's long lasting affair that resulted in marrying a woman only a few years older than her. Her step mother was voluptous, always had a irritating, calming positive attitude. Her sister had a bad effect on her too, there was a time that they actually came to blows.

I enjoyed her investigation of her mother's life and the downfall her father's business downfall. There are times that you think that the evil doer has been found but there you find out that there are more people connected with the bad results. The investigation leads to complex situations.

I really enjoyed this mystery and hope to read many more of her books. ( )
  Carolee888 | Jan 11, 2023 |
Far different from her other works as she's not investigating a murder, but rather is examining her "roots" and her mother's insanity while questioning her own. Psychologically, it's a really find read. ( )
  AliceAnna | Oct 21, 2014 |
Jenny Crain, Exec Director of a non-profit in her small town is dealing with her mother's death, trying to uncover the real reason mom spent years in a mental institution. As she asks questions, she becomes more and more puzzled about the reactions she gets from townspeople, including the members of her own board. Several incidents cause her to fear that someone is out to do her physical harm. Discouraged by her sister from further searching, but egged on by her friend - who happens to be her psychiatrist, and encouraged by her husband- who happens to be a police detective, she works to uncover the mystery of why her mother became ill, and why no one wants to talk about it. The inter-family dynamics, particularly with her no-good father and his second wife, make it particularly interesting. Definitely worth going back to read some of the previous ones in the series (this is #7) ( )
  tututhefirst | Jun 22, 2010 |
Not as good as the earlier Jenny Cain books but having read them in order it's a relief that her mother has been released, or at least that Jenny has been released from torturing herself over her mother & the failed family firm. Jenny got a rough deal in the parent stakes. That father of hers needs a good shaking. More a family history than a murder mystery. And as for that mongrel priest - we can only hope there are special places of torture for his sort.

cover:
It was foggy the day of the funeral... white swirling mists that matched the thick fog of pain and confusion in Jenny's brain. Jenny's mother was dead, carried away by pneumonia after years in the Hampshire Psychiatric Hospital. As friends and family pressed round to offer condolences, a hand clutched Jenny's arm, an anonymous voice whispered, "Forgive me. It was an accident...." Jenny had no idea what it meant. And it didn't seem to matter. Nothing seemed to matter except her grief and her guilt, and the haunting questions that made her fear for her own sanity: What had really been wrong with her mother? How did it happen? And how was it all connected with the bankruptcy of the family business, a disaster her father had never been able to explain? When Jenny tried to find out, she was met with a stone wall of polite silence. But there was nothing polite about whoever shut the garage door when poor, exhausted Jenny fell asleep with the car's motor running... ( )
  catsalive | May 29, 2009 |
4 sur 4
aucune critique | ajouter une critique

Appartient à la série

Appartient à la série éditoriale

dtv (11685)
Vous devez vous identifier pour modifier le Partage des connaissances.
Pour plus d'aide, voir la page Aide sur le Partage des connaissances [en anglais].
Titre canonique
Informations provenant du Partage des connaissances anglais. Modifiez pour passer à votre langue.
Titre original
Titres alternatifs
Date de première publication
Personnes ou personnages
Informations provenant du Partage des connaissances anglais. Modifiez pour passer à votre langue.
Lieux importants
Évènements importants
Films connexes
Épigraphe
Dédicace
Premiers mots
Informations provenant du Partage des connaissances anglais. Modifiez pour passer à votre langue.
In New England, we get fog that would have given Daphne du Maurier the creeps.
Citations
Derniers mots
Informations provenant du Partage des connaissances anglais. Modifiez pour passer à votre langue.
(Cliquez pour voir. Attention : peut vendre la mèche.)
Notice de désambigüisation
Directeur de publication
Courtes éloges de critiques
Langue d'origine
Informations provenant du Partage des connaissances allemand. Modifiez pour passer à votre langue.
DDC/MDS canonique
LCC canonique

Références à cette œuvre sur des ressources externes.

Wikipédia en anglais (1)

Winner of the Agatha Award and finalist for the Edgar Award. Jenny explores her own family's unsettling, mysterious past, beginning with her mother's death in the seventh book in the award-winning Jenny Cain mystery series that was called "excellent" by Publishers Weekly. The layered plot of the latest in the excellent Jenny Cain series finds the Port Frederick, Mass., sleuth probing the cause of her recently deceased mother's insanity. Cain discovers that her mother's mental collapse many years before coincided with the bankruptcy of the family business. The closing of Cain Clams created considerable unemployment locally and countless enemies for the Cains--one such foe may now be trying to prevent the amateur detective from delving further into her family's past and the town's secrets. As she tracks down public mysteries, Cain unearths painful personal issues; an attempt on her life, construed as an effort at suicide, forces her to deal with the legacy of her mother's madness. Pickard masterfully resolves both plot lines in this affecting, provocative novel centering around the mystery at the heart of mother-daughter relationships.

Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque

Description du livre
Résumé sous forme de haïku

Discussion en cours

Aucun

Couvertures populaires

Vos raccourcis

Évaluation

Moyenne: (3.44)
0.5
1
1.5 2
2 4
2.5 1
3 9
3.5 3
4 9
4.5
5 6

Est-ce vous ?

Devenez un(e) auteur LibraryThing.

 

À propos | Contact | LibraryThing.com | Respect de la vie privée et règles d'utilisation | Aide/FAQ | Blog | Boutique | APIs | TinyCat | Bibliothèques historiques | Critiques en avant-première | Partage des connaissances | 203,228,627 livres! | Barre supérieure: Toujours visible