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Chargement... Suspicion of Innocence (1994)par Barbara Parker
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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. A very good read, I must admit that I hadn't expected that.... It all seemed so logical from the blurp, so straight forward, that I used it as an in between read. I was wrong there however: the book had more to it. It wasn't difficult, but luckily it wasn't all whatit seemed from the beginning. I must admit to disliking all characters apart from the little girl. After all it isn't her fault, is it? But all the rest... oh please! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Edgar Award Finalist: This Miami crime thriller by a New York Times-bestselling author is "an exhilarating debut [and] a sizzling page-turner" (Publishers Weekly). Gail Connor is a fast-rising attorney in a major South Florida law firm, about to make partner--until her life is derailed by the discovery of her sister's body in the Everglades. What at first appears to be a suicide soon becomes a homicide investigation with Gail as the prime suspect. To defend herself, Gail must unravel the tangled web of her wild younger sister's life, which includes connections to drug traffickers, a Native American artifact, Gail's own estranged husband, and a handsome Cuban-American attorney, Anthony Quintana, to whom Gail is strongly attracted. But who can she trust as she fights for justice for her sister and herself? Written by a former prosecutor, the first book in the New York Times-bestselling Suspicion series delivers "a sun-drenched variation on the work of Scott Turow and Patricia Cornwell" (Library Journal). Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I first read the Kindle sample. In the first chapter Jimmy Panther, a Native American is working as a tour guide piloting a boat in the Florida Everglades. His Scandinavian passengers happen to see an object in the water which turns out to be a body. Jimmy recognizes the body. That was well written enough to make me want to buy the book.
Immediately in chapter two we are introduced to Gail, a high powered attorney so devoted to her occupation that her marriage is falling apart, she has problems with her mother, doesn’t particularly like her chosen profession, and has problems with her entire family except for sister, Renee. The sister was the body in the water.
Then we have the Cuban connection; after all, it is Florida. Cubans are suspect because they are sneaky and Cuban. There is the possibility of drug involvement on the part of the Cubans, because they are Cuban. All the Cubans in the book, with the exception of the grandfather patriarch, are sex magnets for almost every female in the book, maybe because they are Cuban.
This is a comfortable read; I chose it as a break from more serious reading. Reading this as like running a leisurely 5K race. Not challenging, but satisfying. ( )