A crime novel in which four members of one family are shot dead one Valentine's Day by their housekeeper, who is arrested for the crime two weeks later, but the tragedy neither... more
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Advantages: A gripping thriller Disadvantages: the last few pages were a drag
...will love or start liking a character in a story or a person in a movie, if you can relate the qualities of the character to your day to day life. Either be it yourself, or someone you know. Well, it may not be the complete character that you match but even few sentences in the story or few things the characters do where you believe, yes, that is typical of me where you think I would have done the same if I had been in the same situation.
Many people ... ...Once, I had been in a country where I could not converse in the language of that country and they did not understand my language and that's it. I would not go out shopping as I was afraid they won't know what I wanted, I won't pick up the phone, or try for a job in that new place. I would let the phone ring forever and won't pick in fear that I would encounter someone who will ridicule me for not knowing their language. I would not ask anyone how ...
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This novel is a masterpiece, a short and wonderful story that you can see happening. Rendell has so many strengths in her writing, but the one I find most overwhelming and awe inspiring is her ability to really draw people. To make you understand how ordinary people can find themselves in the most god awful of circumstances. How your mind can create the reality that you ultimately work from. It is true that this novel works from an almost "true crime" ...
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A crime novel in which four members of one family are shot dead one Valentine's Day by their housekeeper, who is arrested for the crime two weeks later, but the tragedy neither begins nor ends there. From the author of THE REASON WHY, SIMISOLA and THE SPEAKER OF MANDARIN. See all Product Description
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