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Fiction.
Mystery.
HTML:A psychological thriller about race, family, and the brutal power of raw emotion.
Mrs. Ranelagh has never stopped thinking about the dead body she found in the gutter twenty years ago, during Britain's Winter of Discontent. "Mad Annie," as she was known, was the only black resident of her West London neighborhood and openly despised by the community. The police called her death an accident, but Mrs. Ranelagh has always suspected it was murder. However, her pleas for an investigation were met with a vicious hate campaign that drove her and her husband from the country. Now, determined to uncover the truth, Mrs. Ranelagh has returned to England, where she quickly discovers a sordid trail of domestic violence, racism and adultery that shockingly could lead back to her own family.
BookshelfMonstrosity: If you're looking for leisurely paced, finely wrought psychological suspense novels full of rich characters, look no further. Both involve a reopened investigation into a long-ago death and the wide-ranging and electrifying effects of both the investigation and its results.… (mer)
Finales de los años setenta. En una zona obrera del barrio de Richmond, una mujer de raza negra muere atropellada en un suceso que la policía atribuyó a un desgraciado accidente. Todo el vecindario, excepto la señora Ranelagh, la última persona que estuvo con ella, aceptó la escueta versión policial. Sin embargo, veinte años después, la señora Ranelagh ha vuelto al lugar de los hechos con un único y firme propósito: reconstruir lo sucedido en aquella noche lluviosa que todos los que vivían en el barrio parecen tener motivos para olvidar.
I listened to the abridged version of The Shape of Snakes and was impressed by the how Minette Walters brought the people in that section of town to life. I was amazed at how well she was able to capture the raw nerve emotion of coming back to the death by misadventure decades later. So many people were involved yet none knew of the others. It was such a good book about a sad story. ( )
Frau Ranelagh ist überzeugt, dass einer ihrer Nachbarn in der Garden Street des Mordes schuldig ist. War es Rassismus oder Gier, die eine von ihnen dazu trieb, die arme Mad Annie Butts zum Sterben in der Gosse liegen zu lassen? Ihr Zwang, diesen Fall zu lösen, ist ein Magnet dafür, dass Sie auf Schritt und Tritt bei ihr sind - Sheri Kraft, Alibi Books, Glenview, Ill.
Not half as good as the corker I finished recently! Characters are unpleasant, but it was interesting to follow how a woman, still obsessed after 20 years, with the death of a black woman with Tourette's goes about finding the murderer, through sheer doggedness and persistence. Letters, police reports, medical findings add to the authenticity. Ghastly animal cruelty turned my stomach. I may try others by this author since her novel [The Sculptress] was so good. I hope this was just a fluke and her other novels are more enjoyable. ( )
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I could never decide whether "Mad Annie" was murdered because she was mad or because she was black.
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But Sam reached for my hand under the table and held it companionably while I pictured myself beside a river...watching the bodies of Annie's enemies float by...
Fiction.
Mystery.
HTML:A psychological thriller about race, family, and the brutal power of raw emotion.
Mrs. Ranelagh has never stopped thinking about the dead body she found in the gutter twenty years ago, during Britain's Winter of Discontent. "Mad Annie," as she was known, was the only black resident of her West London neighborhood and openly despised by the community. The police called her death an accident, but Mrs. Ranelagh has always suspected it was murder. However, her pleas for an investigation were met with a vicious hate campaign that drove her and her husband from the country. Now, determined to uncover the truth, Mrs. Ranelagh has returned to England, where she quickly discovers a sordid trail of domestic violence, racism and adultery that shockingly could lead back to her own family.
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