![]() ![]() Nevertheless, having set up the plot, Peter James wisely switches most of the rest of the book to the police detectives involved in the case, and tells the story from their perspective. Or is she? She thinks she is, but he emphatically denies it.Īt this point, the experienced crime fiction reader will spot a few plot flaws (which aren't resolved), and even readers new to the genre will not have too much difficulty figuring what is going on very early on in the book (the final twist is easy to guess, and isn't much of a twist). We are also introduced to Sophie Harrington, a film production assistant and Bishop's girlfriend. ![]() He seems less than upset, so when Grace and his team discover that Bishop lives in London during the week and only comes home at weekends, they have their suspicions. Katie's husband, Brian, is playing golf when he hears the news. The murder seems to have been carried out by someone called the "time millionaire", but who is he? And what’s his motive? The book opens with the death of Katie Bishop, social-climbing wife of a wealthy Brighton businessman. ![]() There are plenty of thrills in Peter James' latest Roy Grace book, but not much of a mystery. Hardcover: 400 pages (June 2007) Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1405092033 ![]()
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To help her, Jenny must delve deeper into the dark world than any human has in hundreds of years, and face danger that will change her life forever. Since her death over 300 years ago, Tamsin has haunted the lonely estate without rest, trapped by a hidden trauma she can’t remember, and a powerful evil even the spirits of night cannot name. Arriving in the English countryside to live with her mother and new stepfather, Jenny has no interest in her surroundings, until she meets Tamsin. ![]() ![]() Woman of Light is a transfixing novel about survival, family secrets, and love-filled with an unforgettable cast of characters, all of whom are just as special, memorable, and complicated as our beloved heroine, Luz. Written in Kali Fajardo-Anstine's singular voice, the wildly entertaining and complex lives of the Lopez family fill the pages of this multigenerational western saga. In the end, it is up to Luz to save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion. She bears witness to the sinister forces that have devastated her people and their homelands for generations. Luz recollects her ancestors' origins, how her family flourished, and how they were threatened. ![]() As Luz navigates 1930s Denver, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory. Luz "Little Light" Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob. ![]() There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories. ![]() ' A feat of old-school storytelling' The Observer 'A formidable, necessary voice in fiction' Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Malibu Rising ![]() 'Sometimes you just step into a book and let it wash over you, like you're swimming under a big, sparkling night sky' Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina ![]() ![]() ![]() Kate Sherwood has steadily entered my personal “author whose works are usually solid” list. ![]() ![]() Warning: Bad boys being good, good boys being bad. 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