A Slow Fire Burning

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It’s clearly a case of murder, so for the police it’s now simply a case of identifying who had both the opportunity and the motive. To say I was not confused is an understatement, but I remember having that same feeling with her first one, but yet it reels you in at a tantalizing rate of emotions that you will revel in this when your finished. Daniel is Carol’s nephew, and they are grieving the loss of their three-year-old son, Ben, fifteen years ago.

Set along a stretch of Regent’s Canal, Hawkins has created an exquisite sense of place (there’s even a helpful illustrated map… there’s the Sekforde Arms! The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.I found the last half of the book to be real good as everything unfolded and came together in some shocking revelations. She could tell what he was thinking: fat old spinster, tree hugger, knit your own yogurt, curtain twitcher. The truth was that you felt a certain way inside, and while the people who had known you your whole life still probably saw you that way, the number of new people who could appreciate you as that person, that inside person, rather than just a collection of the frailties of age, was limited. That was what Miriam told Detective Inspector Barker, in any case, when he asked her, later on, What was it made you look? There’s Miriam from the neighbouring boat who “likes to keep an eye on things”; Laura, a hot-tempered young woman who slept with the victim shortly before his death; Carla, the dead man’s aunt, who is already mourning the death of her sister, Angela; and Irene, Angela’s elderly neighbour who is prone to confusion, but not so much that she doesn’t clock the goings-on next door.

A Slow Fire Burning is an atmospheric, suspenseful, psychotic thriller that will have you gripping the edge of your seat. We are disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising. I found that I ended up putting the book down for a while whereas her others I didn't want to put down. One highlight is that the audio version I listened to was impeccably narrated by the brilliant actress Rosumund Pike.

With the same propulsion that captivated millions of readers worldwide in The Girl on the Train and Into the Water , Paula Hawkins unfurls a gripping, twisting story of deceit, murder, and revenge.