Título: Among the Departed (Constable Molly Smith #5)
Autor: Vicki Delany
Sinopse: Fifteen years ago a young girl by the name of Moonlight Smith went to her best friend Nicky Nowak’s house for a sleepover. Moonlight joined the family for breakfast the following morning and was then picked up by her mother. Shortly after, Mr. Nowak went for a walk. He was never seen again. Autumn has arrived on the mountains above Trafalgar, B.C., and the promise of winter is in the air. Constable Molly Smith is cuddled by the fireplace with Adam Tocek of the RCMP when Tocek and his dog Norman are called to a wilderness camping ground to join the search for a little boy who snuck away from his family looking for bears. The child is found, dirty, terrified, weeping, but unharmed. Then the inquisitive Norman digs up something else: human bones. The ID isn’t positive, but it is enough to have Sergeant John Winters of the Trafalgar City Police pulling old boxes from the basement to re-open the Brian Nowak investigation. He finds a family shattered beyond recognition by the disappearance of their husband and father. Mrs. Nowak is an empty shell of a woman, dressed in pajamas, never leaving the house. Her son Kyle haunts the streets of Trafalgar at night and spends his days creating beautiful, but highly troubling, art. Nicky Nowak lives in Vancouver and has grown up to be gorgeous, charming, elegant. Yet behind that facade lies a woman whose heart has closed so tightly against human relationships she comes to Trafalgar trailing in her wake a terrifying threat to another innocent family. As the investigation into the life and disappearance of Brian Nowak grows, old secrets are brought to light and new ones struggle to remain hidden.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Among the Departed (Constable Molly Smith #5)”, de Vicki Delany, publicado pela editora Poisoned Pen Press, em 2011 e com 250 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Poisoned Pen Press
Páginas: 250
Ano: 2011
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Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 1590589246
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Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Poisoned Pen Press costumam apresentar narrativas de mistério e suspense ambientadas em contextos históricos ou contemporâneos, com protagonistas frequentemente amadores, mas determinados a desvendar crimes complexos. A experiência de leitura é marcada por tramas bem arquitetadas, que combinam tensão crescente e personagens multifacetados, em cenários que vão desde cidades australianas na década de 1920 até pequenas comunidades rurais ou cidades americanas. O tom varia entre o mais narrativo, com foco em investigações detalhadas e ambientação rica, e o mais atmosférico, com elementos de horror e suspense psicológico. As sinopses sugerem que o catálogo privilegia histórias com ritmo envolvente, que mesclam o clássico enigma do crime com nuances de drama pessoal e intrigas sociais.
