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Lädt ... False Mermaidvon Erin Hart
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Adult mystery/suspense. I haven't read the other two books from this series, but this book on its own was a satisfying suspense novel (ok, the ending felt a tiny bit forced, but still perfectly acceptable) with the added bonus of the Irish countryside setting. After finishing the Stieg Larsson series I am happy to have stumbled on this author. ( ) Dans ce troisième volume de ses aventures, Nora, experte médico-légale, se penche sur le passé de sa famille et le décès non élucidé de sa sœur. L'histoire mêle habilement la noirceur du monde contemporain à la poésie du folklore irlandais, mais n'atteint malheureusement pas le degré de suspens et de tension des opus précédents. Nora Gavin returns to Ireland to solve her sister's murder, three years past. She suspects the husband and steals her niece and flees. Good romance and pictures of healthy and unhealthy relationships, good kid characterization. Magical, gothic, windswept, wet, music and bars -- atmosphere and coastal landscape well done. Picture of seals and mermaids add mythical aspect that doesn't work so well but by then you don't care. For some reason I thought this was a stand-alone; when I got it home, I realized it was third in a series and also that it was set largely in St. Paul. Since I lived in Minneapolis for many years and worked in St. Paul for some of them, the locales were familiar, which added to my enjoyment. I loved the way Hart melded an all-too-real contemporary murder story with the legend of the seal-woman. If you enjoy this book, I'd recommend you watch John Sayles's wonderful film THE SECRET OF ROAN INISH. You might also like to listen to Jean Redpath's "Song of the Seals" and at least one version of "The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry" -- Joan Baez, Maddy Prior, June Tabor and Judy Collins have all recorded it and you can download any of them for 99 cents or so on Amazon or iTunes. I now definitely plan to read the previous two books in the series and look forward to more. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"American pathologist Nora Gavin fled to Ireland three years ago, hoping that distance from home would bring her peace. Though she threw herself into the study of bog bodies and the mysteries of their circumstances, she was ultimately led back to the one mystery she was unable to solve, the murder of her sister, Tríona... Determined to put her sister's case to rest and anxious about her eleven-year-old niece, Elizabeth, Nora returns to Saint Paul, Minnesota, to find that her brother-in-law, Peter Hallett, is about to remarry and has plans to leave the country with his new bride... Time is short, and as Nora begins reinvestigating her sister's death... What is the significance of the "false mermaid" seeds found on Tríona's body? Why was her behavior so erratic in the days before her murder? Is there a link between Tríona's death and that of another young woman? Nora's search for answers takes her from the banks of the Mississippi to the cliffs of Ireland, where the eerie story of a fisherman's wife who vanished more than a century ago offers up uncanny parallels..."--p. [2-3] of jacket. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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