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Bezig met laden... Eden in Winter (2014)door Richard North Patterson
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) nljacobs | Jan 19, 2016 |  Ben Blaine is found dead having fallen from a promontory in Martha's Vineyard. Was he pushed, was it suicide or an accident? The answer is revealed early in the story so it is not a murder mystery. Rather this book is one about fractured families and how the actions of the parents effect the live of the children into their adulthood. Of course a little love story and sex is thrown in for good measure. I found it compelling and finished in 2 days (  ) AstridG | Jan 8, 2016 | I empathized for the main character, Adam Blaine, and loved his brother Teddy and his father's mistress Carla Pacelli. The characters are deep and thoughtful. There is nothing light about the book, which is mostly about Adam's struggles after the murder of the man who raised him as a father, novelist Benjamin Blaine. There is nothing lighthearted here, but the story is well-told. ( ) wareagle78 | Feb 25, 2015 | Ben Blaine, noted author, is dead. His body was found at the foot of a cliff. This story opens as the family is at an inquest about Ben's death. The authorities want to know if his death was accidental, did he commit suicide because he was terminally ill with cancer or, was he murdered because he had recently changed his will leaving the bulk of his estate to his mistress, Carla. Adam Blaine is the central character. He's an undercover operative of the CIA. Authorities wanted his help about Ben's death but Adam's first loyalty is to his family. He's a strongly moral character. The reader can see this in his actions toward the people he comes across in Afghanistan and with Adam's relationship with Carla. Their relationship is at the core of the novel. Both are well developed characters who the reader would sympathise with. Carla tells Adam about her troubled childhood with an abusive father. Their relationship deepens as the story continues and we view this in their emails back and forth from Afghanistan. I enjoyed the fast moving story and the juxtaposition of the emails from Adam to Carla and from her to him. Thinking of the letters coming from a war torned country going to a vacation paradise like Martha's Vineyard made me pause and think about the character's lives. ( ) mikedraper | Jul 4, 2014 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: Number one New York Times bestselling author Richard North Pattersonâ??the author of more than twenty novels, including Degree of Guilt and Silent Witnessâ??returns with the dramatic conclusion to the Blaine trilogy: Eden in Winter, the final volume that completes the story begun in Fall from Grace. Two months after the suspicious and much-publicized death of his father on the island of Martha's Vineyard, it is taking all of Adam Blaine's will to suture the deep wounds the tragedy has inflicted upon his family and himself. As the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine's death casts suspicions on those closest to him, Adam struggles to protect them from those who still suspect that his father was murdered by one of his kin. But the sternest test of all is Adam's proximity to Carla Pacelliâ??his late father's mistress and a woman to whom, despite her pivotal role in his family's plight, Adam finds himself increasingly drawn. The closer he gets to this beautiful, mysterious woman, the further Adam feels from his troubles, yet the closer he also comes to revealing the secrets he's striven to conceal and condemning the people he's fought so hard to protect. An acknowledged master of the courtroom thriller, Patterson's Blaine trilogy, a bold and surprising departure from his past novels, is a complex family drama pulsing with the tumult of the time and "dripping with summer diversions, youthful passion and ideals, class tensions, and familial disruptions" (Library Journal Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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