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Shadows Still Remain
- Narrated by: Tina Benko
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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Summary
A Beautiful Woman, Missing.
New York City, 2005. Thanksgiving weekend. A topless Kate Moss peers down from a billboard over rain-spattered Houston Street. Escaping a troubled past, Francesca Pena came to the city and reinvented herself. At New York University, her beauty and charisma are the envy of her privileged pals, yet none knows the real Francesca - who, after a night of drinking, is now missing.
A High-Stakes Gamble
Detective Darlene O'Hara of the Seventh Precinct and her partner, Serge "K." Krekorian, set out to find Pena. But when the case turns high-profile and Homicide is called in, O'Hara - who has an 18-year-old son she saddled with the name Axl Rose O'Hara, and whose binge drinking exacerbates the massive chip on her shoulder - refuses to let go. Risking both her and K.'s careers, she defies NYPD brass and Homicide legend Patrick Lowry to secretly pursue her own investigation.
A Desperate Chase - and a Chilling Twist
Following a deadly trail that leads from NYU's ivory towers to Brooklyn tattoo parlors, from a skanky strip club to a whitewashed boutique run by a Korean madam, O'Hara closes in on her prey. But she has to move fast, because Lowry and the NYPD are about to make a devastating mistake that will leave the real killer free.
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- samantha potter
- 15-02-21
Nope
It’s written in the present tense, which is unsettling and the writing isn’t anywhere near skilful enough to carry such a stylistic trick. It just reads like a child’s essay. The main character behaves oddly, as if the writer loses energy and lets her periodically wash up drunk or tired. Very little propels the action forward and nothing really puts a rocket under the heroine either. The police procedure aspects feel weak and inauthentic. The writer relies on sketchy characterisation which doesn’t feel authentic. She drinks a lot, often, and her drinking ( like her godawful taste in music) is offered as a insightful character trait. Women, including the main character, are often described as ‘beautiful’. Which presumably works perfectly well for male writers and readers. Do men even read crime fiction? The motivations of many characters remain a mystery to the end. There are sly authorial digs which stereotype to the point almost of racism and sexism. The subject matter is unpleasant and not handled sensitively or with any empathy or understanding of the crimes described. It feels gratuitous, exploitative and nasty. There are weird little plot holes. I felt like washing my ears by the end. I wouldn’t if I were you.
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