Il voto sarebbe dovuto essere 2,5 stelline, ma le ultime dieci pagine hanno cambiato tutto.Davvero, se tutto il libro fosse stato intrigante, veloce, pieno di azione e suspance (con un pizzico di sorpresa)come nelle ultime 10 pagine, avrei dato mille stelline a questo libro, e fatto una danza per strada in onore dell'autrice.Purtroppo non è stato così, ed io posso risparmiarmi una figuraccia in strada.La trama sa di scontato in alcuni punti, il classico omicidio americano che coinvolge più persone, con un intreccio di atti illegali che vengono coperti con un'uccisione. L'ho trovato in alcuni punti (abbastanza punti a dire la verità) prevedibile. Ormai era arrivata già a tutte le conclusione nelle prime 50 pagine, anche se mi sono sbagliata in un piccolo dettaglio, ho comunque intuito velocemente.Lo stile dell'autrice mi piace, scorrevole, anche se alcune pagine sono state davvero noiose, ma in qualunque caso ogni capitolo aggiungeva un tassello al puzzle, aiutava a capire, a comprendere e trarre conclusioni.I personaggi non li ho trovati piatti, ma insoddisfacenti. Come il retrogusto amaro di un'occasione persa, sensazione uguale.Nel complesso un romanzo giallo-thriller masticabile, che non prende dal primo momento, che non è riuscito a catturare la mia attenzione fin dalle prime pagine. Sono riuscita ad immedesimarmi solo negli ultimi due-tre capitoli (i capitoli sono perlopiù formati da 4-5 pagine), quando mi sono appassionata alla lettura, purtroppo troppo tardi.
Another great novel by MHC. Some may say that she is as predictable about crime and mystery novels as Danielle Steele is about romance but I never tire of her writing style. There were quite a few turns in this book with just the crimes alone, then you add in the several love triangles and it set another tone. It is amazing to me that a new journalist/reporter along with the lawyer of the famous Molly Lasch were the ones to truly crack the case apart and prove her innocence. I think the big shocker to me that it was Molly's best friend that ended up murdering Gary Lasch in cold blood because she realized her lover was having yet another affair and so outraged murdered him because she was not going to be the third woman on his list. Wow then I thoroughly taken back by the misfortune and crime going on at the hospital where Gary was the head of and then his own friends were in cahoots with him testing experimental drugs on patients to help the elderly or those that weren't that far from death on their way out quickly. To think that of people really having this frame of mind that it is easier to let someone go and die then to have them hold on is insane. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel.....on to the next!
Do You like book We'll Meet Again (2004)?
UggggI used to devour MHC books. I got this at a library purge sale with about 130 other audio books. Thought I'd give it a listen & maybe renew an old acquaintance. Is this typical of the books I used to love? What did I see in them?A loose plot wrapped up in a heartbeat. But the most annoying thing...90% of the time the characters were referred to by their first AND last names. Not just minor characters but the main characters. The dead husband, the scorned wife, friends, lawyers...everyone.
—readinger
Από τα καλύτερά της έργα. Μια ένοχη γυναίκα, ένας κύκλος φίλων ή μήπως εχθρών;Καρφί στην κοινωνική ασφάλιση και στα προβλήματα που προκαλεί στους ασθενείς η αμερικανική πρόνοια. Ένα καλά δουλεμένο παζλ που τα κομμάτια του μπαίνουν αργά αργά στη θέση τους. Κάποιος είδε κάτι. Κάποιος έκανε κάτι. Ποιος σκότωσε; Ποιος ο κινητήριος μοχλός;Μια γυναίκα με έναν άρρωστο γιο ξέρει αλλά δε μιλά. Και στην τελευταία σελίδα το τελευταίο κομμάτι που σε κάνει να ψάχνεις το επόμενο βιβλίο της συγγραφέως. Στα ελληνικά από τις εκδόσεις Bell το 2003 (Ο κύκλος της ενοχής).
—Πάνος Τουρλής
3 STARS "Dr Gary Lasch is found dead at his desk. The murder stuns his elite Connecticut community - especially when his beautiful young wife, Molly, is arrested and charged with his murder. Six years later, on Molly's release from prison, she reasserts her innocence in front of reporters gathered at the prison gates. Among them is an old schoolfriend, Fran Simmons, who is currently working as an investigative reporter for a true crime television series. Determined to prove her innocence, Molly convinces Fran to research and produce a programme on Gary's death. Fran agrees, but in doing so, she has a second agenda - to learn the truth about her own father's suicide fourteen years earlier. Fran soon finds herself enmeshed in a tangled web of intrigue and menace - more deaths and more unanswered questions about Gary Lasch's death. As her investigation proceeds, there are those who know they must make a choice: face ruin, or eliminate Fran." (From Amazon)A good suspense novel.
—Kris - My Novelesque Life
