
The shocking conclusion of Elizabeth George's previous bestseller, With No One As Witness, saw the wife of New Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley gunned down in the street outside her home. Under arrest for the crime is a twelve-year-old boy, Joel Campbell. What possible motive could he have? What chain of events could have led such a child from the housing estates of North Kensington to the elegant streets of Belgravia with such deadly intent? The answer to these questions is a complex mixture of fate and circumstance. Abandoned (albeit involuntarily) by his parents, Joel and two siblings are dumped on the doorstep of his aunt's house. Kendra, childless and with two marriages behind her, is doing her best to turn her life around; responsibility for three troubled children is not what she had in mind. Drugs, neglect, violence and poverty are commonplace in North Kensington. Joel does his best...
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2010-09-05
Betyg
Fantastisk! En utav det bsta bckerna jag lst. Men, ls den p originalsprket fr att uppleva nyanserna i det talade sprket.
2010-05-11
Betyg
Underbar bok som skulle lsas av de som bestmmer om att ta bort resurser till barn och ungdomar.
Har lst allt annat av Elisabeth George men denna bok var s superbra.
2010-03-18
Betyg
E George brukr skriva bttre, dennabok var mest lngtrkig och man hoppades efter 200 sidor att den skulle ta slut, men jag uthrdade, helt i ondan.
Betyg
(What came before he shot her, 2006) 554 sidor. Inte spnnande, vi vet ju hur det gr. Vi fljer Joel, mycket sympatisk pojke, som sen ska bli mrdare, hans yngre bror Toby, efterbliven?) och systern Ness, som helt driver ivg. Mostern Kendra r vl OK. Det r elndes, elnde. Indignationsroman skulle man kunna kalla den, om inte frfattaren hade hllit en sn nedltande ton. Hon verkar frakta invandrare och frgade och speciellt blandraser mellan vita, svarta och asiater. Ger en obehaglig, fadd smak. Slutade p sid. 182.