Happy to be out from under a - totally fucking warranted - cloud of doubt, he settles down and resigns himself to living a solitary life. While he is initially under suspicion - because, you know, he’s a guy - the police eventually decide that he had nothing to do with Layla’s disappearance. #ButPartnersOfMissingWomenYesTheyAreLiars Which is wholly unsurprising as men are fucking liars. We are then, immediately, told that this version of events isn’t quite true. After a brief yet relatively exhaustive search, he left the rest area and went for help. When he returned from the restroom, he found her missing. He left his girlfriend, Layla, asleep in the front seat of the car. While traveling on a secluded highway at night, Finn decided to pull over and go to the bathroom at a remote rest area. This book opens with the protagonist, Finn’s, account of the night on which his live-in girlfriend went missing.Īs Finn told it, the couple was vacationing in France. Paris, I already had a sneaking suspicion as to who was going to be to blame. Martha’s going to be found in a shallow grave behind her husband’s office, traces of her blood are going to be found in his car and a review of the search history on the home computer is going to find that someone searched “how to kill your wife and get away with it” about three times a week for the last year.Īnd this belief that men are always - seriously always - to blame for the atrocities perpetrated against women translates to the page as well.
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The sweeping love story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler comes to a close in All for One, the riveting final installment of the New York Times bestselling Alex & Eliza trilogy. After all, she and Alex have an arrival of their own to plan for, though Alex’s latest case brings a perilous threat that may destroy everything. if only Eliza can keep herself from interfering too much in the course of true love. It’s not long before sparks start to fly. When they agree to take in an orphaned teenage girl along with Eliza’s oldest brother, John Schuyler, Eliza can’t help but attempt a match. They’re the toast of the town, keeping New York City buzzing with tales of their lavish parties, of Eliza’s legendary wit, and of Alex’s brilliant legal mind.īut new additions to Alex & Eliza’s little family mean change is afoot in the Hamilton household. In this dazzling finale to the trilogy that began with the New York Times bestselling Alex & Eliza: A Love Story, the curtain closes on the epic romance of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth SchuylerĪs a young nation begins to take shape, Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler are on top of the world. García Márquez started as a journalist and wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. 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But with his only clue a picture of a woman no one in Sweden seems to know, he can't begin to imagine how. When one of Inspector Kurt Wallander's most trusted colleagues-someone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crime-also turns up dead, Wallander knows the murders are related. On Midsummer's Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in eighteenth-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Wallander's most trusted colleagues-someone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crime-also turns up dead, Wallander knows the murders are related, even though he can't imagine how.īook Synopsis The mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander -From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the seventh riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series. About the Book On Midsummer's Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in 18th-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. 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