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Liad Shoham

Autor(a) de Lineup

23 Works 164 Membros 13 Críticas

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Includes the name: ליעד שהם

Obras por Liad Shoham

Lineup (2011) 64 exemplares
Asylum City (2005) 46 exemplares
Tel Aviv Suspects (2013) 8 exemplares
מספר חסוי 6 exemplares
Terminus Tel-Aviv (2014) 5 exemplares
Miśḥaḳ ha-reʼayot (2009) 4 exemplares
אם המושבות (2014) 4 exemplares
משפט חוזר (2010) 4 exemplares
יום הדין (2018) 2 exemplares
למראית עין (2016) 2 exemplares
סוף המשחק (2019) 2 exemplares
אקסטרה סמול (2003) 1 exemplar
Das Blut an euren Händen (2016) 1 exemplar
אבא בונה עוגה (2012) 1 exemplar
איש הפח (2017) 1 exemplar
סיכון כפול (2017) 1 exemplar
עד מפתח (2021) 1 exemplar
הגול הראשון שלי (2014) 1 exemplar

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A young woman is raped. A few days later, her father who is sitting in his car outside her apartment "guarding" her, notices a suspicious man lurking between parked cars. Convinced this is the rapist, the father follows the man, learns his address, and surreptitiously takes his photograph. Using the photo, the man convinces his daughter that the man is the rapist. The police arrest the man after the young woman picks him out of a lineup, having been coached by her father.

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)
 
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arubabookwoman | 7 outras críticas | Apr 19, 2021 |
Un très bon policier qui pourrait être très complexe mais qui reste très lisible. Une véritable découverte!
 
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Nikoz | Feb 22, 2020 |
The goals we set for ourselves are sometimes met in unusual ways. Sometimes the goals are accomplished after a person's death.

Michal Poleg is a young social activist in Tel Aviv. She believes in helping the downtrodden with her whole being. She's active in an organization that helps refugees and asylum seekers in Israel.

Michal has pursued a number of people who were taking advantage of the refugees so passionately that someone struck back and she was found dead in her Tel Aviv apartment.

Officer Anat Nachmias is given the lead in the investigation. It's her first murder case and she's trying to become a success in a man's world of police activity. She looks into Michal's past for answers.

She's clever and compassionate and looking into Michal's relationship with some of the refugees to see if there could be a connection to her murder.Then, a young African man confesses. Is this the end of the investigation?

Michal's boss, Itari Fisher begins the story agreeing to go on a date. His Jewish mother and good friend arrange it. Then he hears of Michal's murder and of the confession by the young African man both he and Michal were trying to help and he thinks there must be more to it. As his investigation soon he begins to work with Anal.

Liad Shoham is Israel's leading crime writer and is a practicing attorney. He paints a picture of a criminal world making money from the refugees - many of whom are from Eritrea where they left their country due to fear of mandatory conscription and for the women, forcible rape.

It is easy for the reader to compare the plight of the emigrants to the United States and to view those fleeing Africa daily.

The novel reads as fiction but is so real that it could be taken from behind the headlines. There are a number of red herrings and eventually a confrontation that would have satisfied Michal if she wasn't killed.

The story is magnetic and recommended for mystery fans and those believing in justice.
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mikedraper | 2 outras críticas | Apr 2, 2015 |
A first class read, first class plot, first class subplots, first class characterisation. I had trouble putting it down, couldn't wait to get back to it. An Israeli author well worth following.
 
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jwals | 7 outras críticas | Mar 11, 2015 |

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Obras
23
Membros
164
Popularidade
#129,117
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Críticas
13
ISBN
41
Línguas
5

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