Dear Amy de Helen Callaghan

Dear Amy

Autor Helen Callaghan

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 ian 2017

Apreciem, înainte de orice, vocea duală a lui Margot Lewis: vulnerabilă în viața privată, dar fermă în rolul de confidentă publică sub numele „Dear Amy”. Ritmul este alert. Tensiunea crește brusc. O scrisoare schimbă totul. Bethan Avery cere ajutor. Dar Bethan a dispărut acum douăzeci de ani. Este o glumă macabră sau o voce din mormânt? Margot nu poate ignora strigătul. Poliția confirmă ceva neașteptat. Un secret întunecat. Căutarea unei fete dispărute în prezent se ciocnește violent de un caz rece din trecut. Timpul expiră. Margot devine parte din joc. Ritmul narativ amintește de Emily Elgar, dar structura este definită prin interacțiunea psihologică dintre rubricile de ziar și realitatea brutală a răpirii. Considerăm că Helen Callaghan stăpânește perfect arta suspansului fragmentat. Dacă în Everything Is Lies autoarea explorează minciunile fundamentale ale familiei, aici se concentrează pe identitate și trauma care refuză să rămână îngropată. Nu este doar o vânătoare de indicii. Este o luptă pentru supraviețuire unde linia dintre salvator și victimă se șterge rapid. Finalul este o cursă contra cronometru care vă va lăsa fără răsuflare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781405923415
ISBN-10: 1405923415
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest roman cititorilor care caută un thriller psihologic cu o premisă originală. Veți câștiga o experiență de lectură intensă, construită pe alternanța dintre prezent și ecourile unui caz nerezolvat de decenii. Este ideal pentru fanii stilului lui Lisa Bradley, oferind o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care mass-media locală se intersectează cu investigația criminală.

Despre autor

Helen Callaghan este o voce importantă în ficțiunea contemporană de suspans, cunoscută pentru capacitatea de a construi atmosfere tensionate și personaje feminine complexe. Debutul său, Dear Amy, a devenit rapid un succes, impunând-o ca o maestră a thrillerului psihologic. Interesul său pentru teme precum identitatea pierdută și secretele de familie se regăsește și în lucrările sale ulterioare, precum Everything Is Lies și Find Me. Deși a explorat și zona analizei politice și economice, succesul său major rămâne beletristica, unde reușește să combine rigoarea cercetării cu o narativitate alertă.

Notă biografică

Helen Callaghan was born in Los Angeles, California, to British parents, and her early years were spent in both the US and UK. After several early false starts as a nurse, barmaid and actor, she settled into bookselling, working as a fiction specialist and buyer for a variety of bookshops. Eventually, she studied for her A-Levels at night school and achieved a place at Cambridge University as a mature student.

Helen is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Dear Amy and Everything is Lies.

Recenzii

Would you risk your life to save a stranger?
Discover what happens next in the Sunday Times bestselling psychological thriller, Dear Amy . . .

Dear Amy sets up a terrific, tricky premise and then delivers the suspense thriller readers hope for-a tense plot, imaginative twists, and smart writing
An accomplished psychological twister
I knew from the first page that this was going to be a brilliant book, and I wasn't wrong. A superb debut psychological thriller with an unusual and original premise which keeps the reader hooked until the last page
Well written and pacey
Dear Amy is accomplished, engaging and utterly thrilling; beautifully written, with a narrator who manages to be both vulnerable and fierce at the same time. I found myself cheering her on at every gut-wrenching turn. The breathtaking finale is the most exciting and terrifying thing I have read in a very long time
This is a clever psychological thriller
You'll be hooked
Will keep you turning the pages
Skilfully handled. A promising debut
Wow - this one's a rollercoaster
This haunting tale takes you down unexpected paths in search for the truth

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THE UNMISSABLE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER WITH A SHOCKING TWIST

'Haunting . . . this story will stay with you' Jane Corry, author of My Husband's Wife & The Dead Ex

Would you risk your life to save a stranger?
___________

A local schoolgirl has been missing for weeks when Margot Lewis, agony aunt of the 'Dear Amy' advice column, receives a letter:

Dear Amy,

I've been kidnapped by a strange man.
I don't know where I am.

Please help me,
Bethan Avery

This must be a hoax. Because Bethan Avery is another young girl, who went missing twenty years ago.

As more letters arrive, Margot becomes consumed by finding the sender and - unlike the police - convinced that the girls' disappearances are connected.

Solving this puzzle could save someone's life - but could it also cost Margot her own?
___________

'A first-rate psychological thriller. It's simply impossible to guess what's coming next' Irish Independent

'Terrific - delivers suspense, twists and smart writing' Julia Heaberlin, author of Sunday Times bestselling Black-Eyed Susans

'Skilfully handled. An accomplished psychological thriller' Daily Mail

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In Helen Callaghan’s chilling, tightly spun debut novel of psychological suspense, a teenage girl’s abduction stirs dark memories of a twenty-year-old cold case. . . .
Margot Lewis is a teacher at an exclusive high school in the English university town of Cambridge. In her spare time, she writes an advice column, “Dear Amy,” for the local newspaper.
When one of Margot’s students, fifteen-year-old Katie, disappears, the school and the town fear the worst. And then Margot gets a “Dear Amy” letter unlike any she’s received before. It’s a desperate plea for rescue from a girl who says she is being held captive and in terrible danger—a girl named Bethan Avery, who was abducted from the local area twenty years ago . . . and never found.
The letter matches a sample of Bethan’s handwriting that the police have kept on file since she vanished, and this shocking development in an infamous cold case catches the attention of criminologist Martin Forrester, who has been trying to find out what happened to her all those years ago. Spurred on by her concern for both Katie and the mysterious Bethan, Margot sets out—with Martin’s help—to discover if the two cases are connected.
But then Margot herself becomes a target.

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FIRST CLASS PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE FROM A MAJOR NEW VOICE IN FICTION
In her guise as 'Dear Amy', agony aunt for a local newspaper, Margot Lewis has dealt with all sorts of letters - but never one like this...
Dear Amy,
I've been kidnapped by a strange man.
I don't know where I am.
Please help me,
Bethan Avery
This must be a cruel hoax. Because Bethan Avery has been missing for nearly two decades.
But as the present-day search intensifies for another missing schoolgirl, Margot is unnerved enough to take the letter to the police, hoping they will dismiss it as a sick joke.
Instead, they let Margot in on a little secret. One that confirms her darkest fears and tangles her up in the search for the sender, which could save one young girl's life and cost Margot her own...
Praise for Dear Amy
'Dear Amy sets up a terrific, tricky premise and then delivers the suspense thriller readers hope for-a tense plot, imaginative twists, and smart writing' Julia Heaberlin, author of Sunday Times bestselling Black-Eyed Susans
'Dear Amy is accomplished, engaging and utterly thrilling; beautifully written, with a narrator who manages to be both vulnerable and fierce at the same time. I found myself cheering her on at every gut-wrenching turn. The breathtaking finale is the most exciting and terrifying thing I have read in a very long time' Elizabeth Haynes, bestselling author of Into the Darkest Corner
'I knew from the first page that this was going to be a brilliant book, and I wasn't wrong. A superb debut psychological thriller with an unusual and original premise which keeps the reader hooked until the last page' Rachel Abbott, author of Kill Me Again