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Laddar... The Breathtaker (2003)av Alice Blanchard
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This was an awesome read - I really enjoyed reading this book - the author really drew you in to the story and made you feel as though you were in the middle of tornadoes. As far as the murder mystery goes, everyone was a suspect in this book and the ending was very surprising. I stayed up late at night reading this one. I'm giving it five stars. ( ) Fast paced and suspenseful with the past and current life problems of the main detective mixed in with the solution of the crimes in a believable fashion. I did not suspect the killer at all, so good diversion to other suspects. However, I feel that the premise of a person able to predict tornado damage with such precision is a bit of a stretch. I'm not sure what I expected with this book, but it truly surprised me. It is very well-written, and the character development is well crafted. I usually don't expect these two components in a thriller, so this book was a pleasant surprise. The book is extremely well-plotted too and the tension builds up and builds up throughout the book. It literally left me on the edge of my seat throughout. Not only that, but I got a lot of information about storms and particularly tornados. The book is terrfiying, both with the tremendous storms and the damage they cause and also because of the totally fascinating and chilling killer that stalks the country during tornado season. This depraved individual wreaks havoc on families who have already had to deal with enormous loss inflicted by a catastrophic tornado. Charlie Grover is the police chief in small little Promise, Alabama. Charlie can't believe what he discovers in the wake of this murderer. This is a killer unlike any other he has ever dealt with, and he finds his family and himself personally in imminent danger as he tracks him all across Tornado Alley. A different premise for a thriller, but this is one exciting book. Het stadje Promise, Oklahoma, is getroffen door een tornado. Als de politie in de verwoeste boerderij van de familie Pepper hun drie verminkte lijken vindt, denkt men aanvankelijk dat hun dood door de wervelwind veroorzaakt is. Maar al gauw wordt duidelijk dat ze op gruwelijke wijze zijn vermoord, waarbij de moordenaar alleen maar gebruik heeft gemaakt van de tornado. Het blijkt niet de eerste keer te zijn dat hij heeft toegeslagen tijdens een tornado. Maar hoe weet de moordenaar waar die toe zal slaan? Politiecommissaris Charlie Grover, weduwnaar, roept de hulp in van de aantrekkelijke winddeskundige Willa Bellman die hem inwijdt in het bijzondere wereldje van de 'stormjagers'. Duidelijk is dat de moordenaar daar gezocht moet worden. Toevallige omstandigheid: Grovers vader is tornadojager en zijn rebelse tienerdochter is ook bevriend met een van hen… Vlot geschreven, boeiende en spannende thriller met een goed plot, een aardige sfeer- en karaktertekening en een bijzonder spannende, 'stormachtige' finale. De beschrijving van het tornadojagerswereldje geeft het verhaal wat extra's mee. Blanchard had veel succes met haar debuut 'Onder de huid', een New York Times Notable Book, dat drie sterren in VN's Detective & thrillergids kreeg. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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Promise, Oklahoma is in the middle of the south central US, more commonly known as Tornado Alley. A deadly twister has left people dead and injured and caused 40 million dollars worth of damage. At first it seems as though the Pepper family are just four more statistics on the death roll, but Police Chief Charlie Grover soon realises that their bodies have been arranged to look like storm victims, while the cause of their deaths is by the hand of man, not an act of god. The post mortems confirm his suspicions, then another death during a tornado proves that there is a killer at large. He seeks help from meteorological experts at the local university, in particular Dr Willa Bellman, who knows all about the force and power of these storms and also knows the motley collection of people who follow the paths of every tornado. Both of them are convinced that amongst the storm-chasers is the killer, but more deaths - both natural and unnatural - are to occur before the killer is stopped in a truly breath-taking climax. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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