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A carregar... The Missing (2010)por Jane Casey
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Verano de 1992. La desaparición de un muchacho de doce años conmocionó Wilmington, una barriada residencial de las afueras de Londres, y sumió a la familia Barnes en un infierno de culpa y autodestrucción. Tras la muerte del padre, Sarah, la hermana menor de Charlie, queda al cuidado de una madre resentida y alcohólica Dieciséis años más tarde, Sarah, convertida en profesora de una academia femenina, encuentra muerta a una alumna suya en un bosque de los aledaños de Wilmington. Su vinculación con los dos casos trastorna el comportamiento de la maestra. A pesar de haber querido mantener siempre en secreto su pasado, no duda en inmiscuirse en la investigación y entorpecer la labor policial, centrando la atención de los medios y el foco de la sospecha sobre su persona. Als klein meisje maakte Sarah Finch een drama mee: op een dag kwam haar broertje Charlie niet meer terug nadat hij buiten was gaan spelen. Sarah was de laatste die hem had gezien en wat er met Charlie is gebeurd, is een mysterie gebleven. Die onzekerheid heeft het gezin verscheurd. Nu, zestien jaar later, is Sarah lerares. Als een van haar leerlingen, de twaalfjarige Jenny, niet op school komt opdagen, zet de politie een massale zoektocht op touw. Maar het is Sarah die tijdens het joggen het lijk van haar leerling vindt. Ze verleent haar medewerking aan het politieonderzoek, maar is Sarah getuige, slachtoffer of verdachte? Want is het niet erg toevallig dat ze betrokken is bij de verdwijningen van twee kinderen? A pupil at the school Sarah teaches at has gone missing. While on a run, Sarah discovers her body. Chapters dealing with the investigation of this murder are interspersed with ones set in Sarah's childhood, when her brother Charlie went missing. Far inferior to the Maeve Kerrigan series. The "romance" bits read a bit like a young or new adult book and there was far too much going on. There were at least three novels' worth of plot in the last quarter of the book. SPOILERS The suggestions that Sarah might have something to do with the present day case were laid on rather heavily and made it hard to trust anything she said. That and the fact that she kept inserting herself in the case and chatting to the reporter and generally behaving oddly. This made for a rather detached read. I skimmed most of it. This book is easy, and for the most part, pleasurable read. Although I did have a couple of issues with the story. The first being that the main character is written to be an extremely beautiful woman, and yet she lacks so much confidence that she has the backbone of a doormouse. Even with her painful past, I could not come to terms with her insecurity and passive personality. With beauty comes power and usually some degree of vanity. The other issue is that the ending is a little jarring, it's very violent, not really in keeping with the earlier part of the book. After the ending, I was not surprised to read in the author interview at the back of the book, that her next book will be about a serial killer. That said, this was still a pleasant time waster, but I will not be reading her future books. There are just too many great authors out there & too little time, to waste on the middling ones. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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When Sarah Finch was a little girl, her older brother went out to play and never came back... Not knowing what happened to Charlie has ripped her family apart. Now a teacher, Sarah's back living at home, trapped with an alcoholic mother who keeps her brother's bedroom as a shrine. Then twelve-year-old Jenny Shepherd disappears and it's Sarah who discovers her pupil's body, abandoned in the woods near her home. As Sarah becomes more involved in the inquiry, suspicions are aroused. But it's not just the police who are watching her... Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Ik heb geen moment overwogen om het boek niet uit te lezen, want het was redelijk snel uit en bevatte voor mij genoeg om gewoon lekker door te lezen. Het feit dat ik de naam van de hoofdpersoon al niet meer wist, terwijl ik het boek gisteravond heb gelezen, zegt overigens wel genoeg volgens mij. ( )