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O Saco de Viagem
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Um atropelamento e fuga acaba em morte e transforma uma pacata cidade à beira-mar num lugar de medo e suspeição.
No primeiro aniversário da morte de Joel, a sua namorada Zara desaparece. Estará Zara em perigo? Será que ainda está viva? O que realmente aconteceu ao Joel e quem é o culpado?
Na pacata cidade à beira-mar de Tamarisk Bay a polícia não parece fazer nada para a encontrar, por isso, a sua amiga Janie decide procurá-la pelos nossos próprios meios. Em plenos anos loucos da década de 1960, Janie teme que Zara tenha caído nas drogas, na bebedeira, ou algo pior. À medida que Janie descobre as circunstâncias estranhas do desaparecimento de Zara, ela começa a questionar a verdade sobre a morte de Joel.
Janie é responsável pela biblioteca itinerante e adora ler policiais, especialmente os da Agatha Christie. Poderá Poirot ajudá-la a resolver o mistério do desaparecimento de Zara? Ao prorurar pistas, Janie conhece algumas personagens duvidosas, cada qual com uma razão para querer o Joel morto. Conseguirá ela desmanchar a rede de mentiras e encontrar a verdade?
- Ótimo desenvolvimento das personagens, o que nos faz querer saber o que lhes acontece. Muitas peculiaridades adoráveis da década de 1960. O mundo antes do telefone parece fantástico!
- A história passa-se numa pequena cidade à beira-mar chamada Tamarisk Bay e acho que consegue captar o que é viver numa pequena cidade. Funciona bem quando a Janie tenta descobrir o que aconteceu à Zara, mas sem querer que toda a gente saiba que está a fazer de detetive amadora! Tudo isto fez com que eu adorasse a história.
- Adoro a personagem do pai da Janie e a dinâmica entre pai e filha. Tenho a certeza que, se esta história se passasse nos dias de hoje, os ferimentos sofridos teriam sido bem piores e provavelmente teriam levado à morte. Não é por causa da perda da visão que ele desiste e acaba por abrir um consultório de fisioterapia, com a Janie a preencher as fichas dos clientes.
- Janie Juke, bibliotecária local e leitora de mistérios, parece ser a pessoa certa para investigar a morte do Joel e o desaparecimento da Zara. A admiração pela Agatha Christie e pelo Poirot foi a alavanca para usar as suas "celulazinhas cinzentas" e fazer alguma investigação por conta própria!
- Ótimo enredo. Ótimas personagens. Estilo fluído e fácil de seguir. Tenho de confessar que não leio Agatha Christie há décadas e estava preocupada que as referências pudessem parecer ultrapassadas, mas definitivamente não é o caso.
Muir, Isabella: - "
Isabella is never happier than when she is immersing herself in the sights, sounds and experiences of the 1960s. Researching all aspects of family life back then formed the perfect launch pad for her works of fiction. Isabella rediscovered her love of writing fiction during two happy years working on and completing her MA in Professional Writing and since then has gone to publish five novels, two novellas and a short story collection.
Her first Sussex Crime Mystery series features young librarian and amateur sleuth, Janie Juke. Set in the late 1960s, in the fictional seaside town of Tamarisk Bay, we meet Janie, who looks after the mobile library. She is an avid lover of Agatha Christie stories - in particular Hercule Poirot - using all she has learned from the Queen of Crime to help solve crimes and mysteries. As well as three novels, there are three novellas in the series, which explore some of the back story to the Tamarisk Bay characters.
Her latest novel, Crossing the Line, is the first of a new series of Sussex Crimes, featuring retired Italian detective, Giuseppe Bianchi who arrives in the quiet seaside town of Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, to find a dead body on the beach and so the story begins...
Isabella's standalone novel, The Forgotten Children, deals with the emotive subject of the child migrants who were sent to Australia - again focusing on family life in the 1960s, when the child migrant policy was still in force.
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