Liad Shoham
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מספר חסוי 6 exemplares
שבוע באמצע החיים 3 exemplares
החברים של אלוהים 3 exemplares
החברים של אלוהים : סיפורים 2 exemplares
אבא בונה עוגה 1 exemplar
רצח בימי קורונה 1 exemplar
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1971
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Israel
- Locais de residência
- Tel Aviv, Israel
- Educação
- Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (LL.B.)
London School of Economics, UK (LL.M) - Ocupações
- Attorney
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 23
- Membros
- 164
- Popularidade
- #129,117
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 13
- ISBN
- 41
- Línguas
- 5
Of course, the arrested man is not the rapist, but for reasons that become clear over the course of the novel he cannot account for his presence lurking on the street near the victims apartment. Ultimately, however, the rape charge is dropped, since once the police become aware that the daughter's lineup identification was defective, there is no other evidence. But once released, the arrested man will have to contend with some very bad guys who fear he may have revealed to the police the reason he was lurking on that street.
For the first two-thirds this Israeli thriller is a page-turner--a well-plotted police procedural. Then it simply falls apart. It is as if having set up the device of "an innocent man arrested" the author suddenly realizes once the innocent man is off the hook, he's got to come up with someone somewhere to actually be the rapist. So he just pulls one out of the blue. That really didn't make sense.
In addition, the author also seems to suddenly remember he has to resolve the issues surrounding the arrested man's refusal to tell the police why he was lurking on the victim's street, which, SPOILER ALERT, is going to involve an additional crime. Now, this additional crime was a pretty bad one, certainly one deserving of punishment. But the author seems to feel that the man wrongfully arrested for the rape deserves a happy ending. So not only does he get off for the crimes he was engaged in while lurking, his wife, who had divorced him, comes back and they all live happily ever after, and all the other bad guys die excruciating deaths. I found the last third of the book, as the author was attempting to resolve all the issues he created to be bizarrely unbelievable.
Not recommended.
2 stars… (mais)