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Trish McCormack

    Esta autora crea ficción criminal ambientada en los impresionantes escenarios de los lugares más bellos de Nueva Zelanda, inspirándose en sitios que conoce íntimamente. Su protagonista, Philippa Barnes, una guía de glaciares, encarna una mezcla de autodesprecio, tenacidad, amabilidad y un oscuro sentido del humor. El personaje de Philippa refleja la propia atracción de la autora por los espacios salvajes y la emoción de descubrir misterios. Las narrativas son convincentes y ofrecen a los lectores tanto suspense como una apreciación por los dramáticos entornos naturales.

    Assigned to Murder
    • Assigned to Murder

      • 272 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      As Philippa Barnes, a young West Coast glacier guide, is getting over her parents' deatg in a climbing accident, Kirsten, a journalist friend of hers, is murdered beside a nearby lake. Philippa teams up with Kirsten's brother Jack to try and find out what Kirsten was investigating while a diarist tries to understand the emotion behind a betrayal that has poisoned at least one life. Philippa's search will take her from the secretive people of the lake to the home of high court judge, Loraine Latimer, a powweful woman who has a strange relationshipwith her family. Philippa finds that the murder of Kirsten is linked to a decades-old mystery, but not in time to prevent another tragedy. Past and present finally come together in a late night confrontationat Lake Kaniere when two very different people face the consequences of choices they made decades before

      Assigned to Murder