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The Body Falls de Andrea Carter

The Body Falls: Inishowen Mysteries

Autor Andrea Carter
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 oct 2020

Stilul autoarei Andrea Carter evocă precizia chirurgicală și atmosfera electrizantă a epocii de aur a romanului polițist. Descoperim aici o scriitură asigurată, unde peisajul sălbatic al peninsulei Inishowen devine un personaj activ, nu doar un decor. Ploaia pornește brusc. Devine neîncetată. Podurile cad, drumurile se surpă, iar Glendara rămâne izolată de lume. În acest spațiu claustrofobic, un cadru natural dur se împletește cu o moarte bizară: un cadavru dislocat de viituri cade peste un jeep. Diagnosticul medicului? Mușcătură de șarpe. Tensiunea crește cu fiecare pagină, pe măsură ce comunitatea realizează că un ucigaș se află printre ei. Observăm cum Benedicta „Ben” O'Keeffe, revenită recent din Florida, trebuie să colaboreze cu sergentul Tom Molloy sub presiunea unei catastrofe naturale. Pe același raft cu Death at Whitewater Church de Andrea Carter, acest nou volum se distinge prin ritmul alert impus de izolarea totală a personajelor. Dacă în There Came A-Tapping autoarea explora nuanțe mai obscure și înfricoșătoare, în The Body Falls ea rafinează structura de tip „whodunnit” clasic într-un context de supraviețuire. Putem afirma că The Body Falls reprezintă punctul culminant al seriei Inishowen Mysteries, transformând o cursă de ciclism caritabilă într-un joc periculos de-a șoarecele și pisica. Totul este comprimat, urgent și dens.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472131126
ISBN-10: 1472131126
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Constable
Seria Inishowen Mysteries

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru pasionații de romane polițiste care apreciază structura clasică a Agathei Christie, dar caută un decor modern și atmosferic. Veți descoperi o intrigă ingenioasă unde izolarea geografică accelerează paranoia. Cititorul câștigă o experiență de lectură intensă, marcată de contrastul dintre rutina micului oraș irlandez și brutalitatea unei crime aparent imposibile.

Despre autor

Andrea Carter este o scriitoare stabilită în Dublin, cunoscută pentru seria de succes Inishowen Mysteries. Cu o carieră solidă în drept, experiența sa ca avocat străbate paginile cărților sale, oferind autenticitate personajului principal, Benedicta O'Keeffe. Stilul său este frecvent lăudat de publicații precum The Irish Times pentru modul în care reușește să combine elementele tradiționale de mister cu peisajele aspre și recunoscute ale Irlandei de Nord. Prin opera sa, Carter a reușit să creeze un univers literar unde legile comunității și cele ale naturii se ciocnesc constant.

Descriere

'Her best yet... Andrea conjures up a phenomenal sense of place. She is such an assured, stylish writer and The Body Falls is remarkably gripping' Jo Spain

April in Florida and Ben O'Keeffe is enjoying balmy temperatures, working the last few days of a six-month stint with her old law firm. A week later she returns to Glendara, Inishowen where a charity cycle race is taking place. But it starts to rain, causing the cyclists to postpone the start of their event and stay overnight in the town. But the rain doesn't stop; it increases to become relentless, torrential.

In the middle of the night Sergeant Tom Molloy is called out to Mamore Gap, where a body, dislodged from a high bank by the heavy rain, has fallen onto the vet's jeep. It is identified as Bob Jameson, a well-known local charities boss, and the organiser of the cycling event. Stunned, the GP confirms that the man has suffered a snakebite.

Terrible weather persists and soon bridges are down and roads are impassable. Glendara is completely cut off, with a killer at the heart of the community. Who is responsible for Bob Jameson's death? One of the strangers in town or someone closer to home? It's left to Molloy, with Ben's assistance, to find out what is going on.

Praise for Andrea Carter's Inishowen Mysteries series

'Atmospheric and vivid' The Irish Times

'I adored this traditional crime novel; it's modern day Agatha Christie with Ben as Miss Marple' Irish Examiner

'The colourful cast of characters may be fictional, but the landscapes, towns and villages are instantly recognisable' Irish Daily Mail

'A beguiling heroine - clever, sympathetic and bearing a weight of guilt' The Times

Recenzii

Her best yet... Andrea conjures up a phenomenal sense of place. She is such an assured, stylish writer and The Body Falls is remarkably gripping
As wonderful as I expected. Tense, atmospheric, claustrophobic, it grips the reader ever tighter as its mystery deepens
Praise for the Inishowen mysteries:
Atmospheric and vivid
I adored this traditional crime novel; it's modern day Agatha Christie with Ben as Miss Marple
The colourful cast of characters may be fictional, but the landscapes, towns and villages are instantly recognisable
A beguiling heroine - clever, sympathetic and bearing a weight of guilt
April in Florida and Ben O'Keeffe is enjoying balmy temperatures, working the last few days of a six-month stint with her old law firm. A week later she returns to Glendara, Inishowen where a charity cycle race is taking place. But it starts to rain, causing the cyclists to postpone the start of their event and stay overnight in the town. But the rain doesn't stop; it increases to become relentless, torrential.

In the middle of the night Sergeant Tom Molloy is called out to Mamore Gap, where a body, dislodged from a high bank by the heavy rain, has fallen onto the vet's jeep. It is identified as Bob Jameson, a well-known local charities boss, and the organiser of the cycling event. Stunned, the GP confirms that the man has suffered a snakebite.

Terrible weather persists and soon bridges are down and roads are impassable. Glendara is completely cut off, with a killer at the heart of the community. Who is responsible for Bob Jameson's death? One of the strangers in town or someone closer to home? It's left to Molloy, with Ben's assistance, to find out what is going on.

Praise for Andrea Carter

'Her best yet... Andrea conjures up a phenomenal sense of place. She is such an assured, stylish writer and The Body Falls is remarkably gripping' Jo Spain


'Starting a new Inishowen novel is like settling in for a gossip with a really good friend. . . hugely entertaining . . . very satisfying' Jane Casey

'I adored this traditional crime novel; it's modern day Agatha Christie with Ben as Miss Marple' Irish Examiner

'The colourful cast of characters may be fictional, but the landscapes, towns and villages are instantly recognisable' Irish Daily Mail

'A beguiling heroine - clever, sympathetic and bearing a weight of guilt' The Times

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Notă biografică

Andrea Carter grew up in the midlands of Ireland, studied law at Trinity College Dublin, and worked as a solicitor on the Inishowen Peninsula, County Donegal, where she ran the most northerly solicitor's practice in the country. Following that, she moved to Dublin to practice as a barrister before turning to write crime novels. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from University College Dublin. The Body Falls is the fifth in the Inishowen Mystery Series. Carter's first book, Death at Whitewater Church, a winner of the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair, was followed by Treacherous Strand, The Well of Ice, and Murder at Greysbridge. She has been the recipient of two Arts Council of Ireland Literature Bursary Awards and a Dublin City Council Bursary Award. The series is being adapted for a television crime series to be titled "Donegal--The Inishowen Mysteries". Andrea Carter lives in Dublin with her husband, documentary maker Geoff Power.