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The Dead Friend Project de Joanna Wallace

The Dead Friend Project

Autor Joanna Wallace
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 apr 2025

Perspectiva este fragmentată, oscilând între viața haotică a lui Beth și secretele bine păzite ale unui grup de mame „perfecte”. Totul începe cu un accident. Charlotte este lovită de o mașină. Pare o tragedie banală, până când Beth află adevărul: prietena ei cea mai bună și-a lăsat copilul mic nesupravegheat pentru a ieși din casă. Este un comportament inexplicabil. Beth știe că ceva este greșit. Suntem de părere că această premisă transformă un roman polițist obișnuit într-o analiză tăioasă a ipocriziei sociale. Tensiunea crește cu fiecare pahar de vin consumat și cu fiecare întâlnire la poarta școlii. Cine minte? Cine ascunde ceva sub masca perfecțiunii? Apreciem modul în care Joanna Wallace inserează umorul negru în situații de o tristețe profundă. Cititorul care a apreciat mixul dintre viața de părinte și misterul crimelor din The Murder Mystery de Alice Castle va găsi aici un element similar — acea atmosferă de comunitate închisă — dar într-un context mult mai întunecat și cinic. Dacă în volumul său anterior, You’d Look Better as a Ghost, autoarea explora mintea unui criminal în serie cu o detașare ironică, în The Dead Friend Project ea își rafinează vocea, ancorând suspansul în realitatea brutală a presiunii sociale și a loialităților trădate. Este un ritm alert, dictat de urgența unei mame care nu mai are nimic de pierdut.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781800811362
ISBN-10: 1800811365
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Viper
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorii care savurează un roman polițist inteligent, unde satira socială mușcă din realitatea cotidiană. Veți câștiga o poveste despre prietenie și obsesie care demontează mitul mamei perfecte. Este recomandarea noastră pentru cei care caută tensiune psihologică împletită cu un umor negru rafinat, oferind o perspectivă proaspătă asupra genului thriller domestic.

Despre autor

Joanna Wallace s-a impus rapid ca o voce distinctă în literatura de suspans contemporană. Succesul său a fost confirmat de câștigarea premiului Crime Fiction Lover Best Debut Novel pentru You’d Look Better as a Ghost, un roman care a atras atenția criticilor prin originalitate și umor macabru. Stilul său se caracterizează printr-o capacitate unică de a îmbina comentariul social acid cu o empatie profundă pentru personajele sale marginalizate. În The Dead Friend Project, publicată la editura Profile sub amprenta Viper, autoarea continuă să exploreze temele sale predilecte: secretele întunecate din spatele ușilor închise și complexitatea relațiilor umane.

Notă biografică

Joanna Wallace studied Law at Birmingham University before working as a commercial litigation solicitor in London. She now runs a family business and lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband, four children and dog. Her debut novel, You'd Look Better as a Ghost, was published by Viper in 2023.

Descriere scurtă

'Motherland meets Girl on the Train' - WOMAN & HOME'A fresh new voice in crime fiction' - JANICE HALLETT'A tragicomic banger' - HARRIET TYCEThe school run can be murder...Beth is having a bad day. Her husband has left her. Her fellow school mums judge her. And now she's stuck in A&E after her son fell off the climbing wall on the first day of school.In fact, it's been nothing but bad days since her best friend Charlotte died in a tragic accident, hit by a car while out jogging. But when Beth learns that Charlotte's toddler was left home alone that night, she begins to question why her friend would do something so uncharacteristically irresponsible. Was Charlotte's death an accident? It's time for Beth to discover what really happened. Once she's put the kids to bed, of course...'Darkly funny and deftly plotted' - ALICE CLARK-PLATTS'Riotously funny and searingly observed' - KATE SIMANTS'You'll never look at school-gate parents the same way again' - D.V. BISHOP

Recenzii

A compelling story of complex relationships, subterfuge and mystery... So intriguing I couldn't put it down
Funny but heart-rending... Even at her most chaotic, Beth is lovely, and her methods of investigating Charlotte's death are wholly original
Another superb blend of dark humour and intriguing mystery from Joanna Wallace... An atmosphere of tension and danger permeates The Dead Friend Project even as the gallows humour flows thick and fast
Well-written, ably-plotted... Works well as a novel, and fairly well as a mystery
A tragic accident, a dead friend and a fresh new voice in crime fiction... This vivid, witty story is expertly told in mesmerising detail and with boundless energy, but there's a proper murder mystery at its heart. Joanna Wallace draws you into a deceptively ordinary world before she revels in the delicious horror beneath. Pure class
I loved this. Some of my favourite themes (issues with booze, school gate dramas) brought together in a tragicomic banger with some pitch-perfect passive aggression
Motherland with murder! I haven't laughed so much in ages, then been struck speechless with horror... Funny, sad, wicked and very engaging
Joanna Wallace harnesses the inner monologue of every parent who's suffered at the hands of the unrelenting tiger mother. The Dead Friend Project is Fleabag meets Absolutely Fabulous and everything in between. Darkly hilarious and 2024's must-read
Had me rolling around with laughter on one page, and filled with empathy the next. The Dead Friend Project is hilariously brilliant, and Joanna Wallace is a rare talent
Darkly funny and deftly plotted
A twisty-turny mystery with a brilliantly-relatable protagonist, characters that leap of the page and a narrative voice that drew me in from the opening lines. This is a brilliantly-entertaining and engaging read
Supremely well plotted and often hilariously funny
Come for the murder and stay for the errant labradors and the Sweaty Betty mums. The Dead Friend Project had me snorting out loud one moment then covering my mouth with my hands the next. Witty, smart and terrifyingly well-observed
Riotously funny, dark as anything, heartfelt and searingly observed
A brilliant romp of a murder mystery; fast-paced, darkly funny, and utterly captivating. Can't recommend this highly enough
An enthralling tale of secret obsessions and shocking revelations, shot through with Wallace's trademark dark humour. You'll never look at school gate parents the same way again
Wallace may have invented a new genre. Not cosy crime or comic crime, but clever crime
A cast of well-crafted characters, the blackest of humour and a mystery that twists and turns its way to a very satisfying ending
Brilliantly plotted, and dark and funny
Darkly funny and touchingly observant, The Dead Friend Project is a page turner of an emotional thriller
A wonderful antidote for anyone who's suffered the Groundhog Day torture of the school run! Perfectly observed and brilliantly funny
A perfectly paced and brilliantly executed murder mystery with a twist and a main character you can't help rooting for even at her most awful
A wickedly funny thriller that kept me guessing to the last page
I loved The Dead Friend Project for its brilliantly dark humour! School gate conflicts degenerate into murder in this hilarious and fast-moving thriller
A beautifully written, darkly twisting mystery that manages to be both very funny and deeply moving. Highly recommended to readers who love clever thrillers
Funny, dark and compelling. Beth's not giving up on her dead friend - for anything
Tapping into the trauma of school runs, Wallace has skillfully weaved tragedy and dark comedy together to create a story that makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you want to kill most of the PTA mums. A thoroughly entertaining read
Joanna Wallace has a unique ability to conceal spiky social commentary and a sharp dose of empathy beneath her trademark cushion of laugh-out-loud humour. Will appeal to anyone who knows that parents often behave worse than their kids. The most original thriller you'll read this year