No one seems to know or care why she was killed except Maddie-and the dead woman herself. Working at the newspaper offers Maddie the opportunity to make her name, and she has found just the story to do it: a missing woman whose body was discovered in the fountain of a city park lake.Ĭleo Sherwood was a young African-American woman who liked to have a good time. Drawing on her own secrets, she helps Baltimore police find a murdered girl-assistance that leads to a job at the city’s afternoon newspaper, the Star. Maddie wants to matter, to leave her mark on a swiftly changing world. This year, she’s bolted from her marriage of almost twenty years, determined to make good on her youthful ambitions to live a passionate, meaningful life. Last year, she was a happy, even pampered housewife. In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know-everyone, that is, except Madeline “Maddie” Schwartz. The revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who pursues the murder of a forgotten young woman. 2020 Audie Awards® Finalist - Thriller/Suspense
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Me ha gustado la novela, sobre todo al principio. En esta ocasión la investigación tendrá lugar en el colegio de Hazel y Daisy, durante la celebración del cincuenta aniversario de la escuela. Vuelve otra vez el club de las detectives privadas. Robin lives in England with her husband and her pet bearded dragon, Watson. She then went to university, where she studied crime fiction, and then worked at a children's publisher. She spent her teenage years at Cheltenham Ladies’ College, reading a lot of murder mysteries and hoping that she’d get the chance to do some detecting herself (she didn’t). When it occurred to her that she was never going to be able to grow her own spectacular walrus moustache, she decided that Agatha Christie was the more achieveable option. When she was twelve, her father handed her a copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and she realised that she wanted to be either Hercule Poirot or Agatha Christie when she grew up. She has been making up stories all her life. Robin was born in California and grew up in an Oxford college, across the road from the house where Alice in Wonderland lived. She is also the author of The Guggenheim Mystery, the sequel to Siobhan Dowd's The London Eye Mystery. Robin's books are: Murder Most Unladylike (Murder is Bad Manners in the USA), Arsenic for Tea (Poison is Not Polite in the USA), First Class Murder, Jolly Foul Play, Mistletoe and Murder, Cream Buns and Crime, A Spoonful of Murder, Death in the Spotlight and Top Marks for Murder. Additionally, familiarity with Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Most of this book is about internal thought processes, not external displays of raw emotion. Incidentally, if you've seen the film adaptation of this novel, don't expect the huge emotional outbursts that the filmmakers felt so compelled to insert. But if you enjoy skillfully constructed prose and don't mind a book where very little happens (at least in plot terms), then you'll be in for a treat. This doesn't exactly make for the most "exciting" listening. Expect to hear extended interior contemplations of things as mundane as buying flowers and baking a cake. Instead, what you get is mostly the inner thoughts of three very fascinating women in very different circumstances. The plot is the least important element of this book and as such, is very slight. If you are such a listener, then this book is definitely not for you. Most audiobook listeners prefer a strong plot or at least some sort of clear linear thread to pull them through long hours of commuting. All this said, The Hours is still somewhat difficult to recommend. Even better, he is very skilled at created fully realized characters (a *very* refreshing change from most best-selling fiction). Although he veers into over-writing at times (not unusual for a newer, over-enthusiastic novelist), author Michael Cunningham clearly has a way with the English language. Compared to many best-sellers, this book actually displays literary prowess by its author. |