"4 трупа и похороны" - это захватывающая книга, наполненная событиями и загадками. Карлотта Рен, героиня романа, ведет сложную жизнь. Внезапное появление ее отца, беглеца от закона, заставляет ее задуматься. Стоит ли ей присоединиться к своему бывшему жениху Питеру, чтобы доказать невиновность отца? И если она сделает это, то сможет ли она больше заниматься перевозкой трупов?
Но это еще не все. Поведение близкого друга начинает выходить из-под контроля, полиция все больше нажимает на дело отца Карлотты, она обнаруживает, что игровые долги ее брата Уэсли - всего лишь детские шалости по сравнению с его новой страстью. И тут еще появляется "Очаровательный Убийца" - серийный убийца, который развязывает свой гнев в Атланте. Теперь трупы накапливаются, и отец Карлотты становится главным подозреваемым номер один!
Автор: Стефани Бонд
Four corpses and a funeral, Stephanie Bond Stephanie Bond has earned a reputation as one of the most inventive and daring writers on crime investigation today. Four Bodies is Bond's fourth RT Book and it continues in the spirit of her extraordinary previous novels - good fast-paced drama with a heart that never stops thumping for justice. This one, like her other sleuth-fiction thrillers, is a grippingly intriguing conspiracy thriller set in America and featuring multicultural friendships, distinguished extramarital affairs, and doomsday conspiracies.
The politically correct setting of Southern ATL centers her story in Charlotte, North Carolina for its fascinating mixture of religious and racial heterogeneity and ethnic identity conflict. Early in this lethal set-up there's a visit byher father, escaped from prison and involved in smuggling drugs and money which is enough to catchKentucky Derby Queen Maggie Wren, along with her ex-fiance Peter Wyndham, off guard and back in action on a dead-end investigating circuit. Wren remains mired deep within her pressured professional and personal life, with two young daughters to raise and an ex husband pursuing endless rounds of maintenance claims.
Stuck in the middle of this murder investigation mix are her closest friends Destiny Buckland and Missy Dayan Devotion, eventually joined by their new boyfriend Wes Brown. Wes has the golddust relationships after helping toy boy fountain his job after stealing petty cash for a wealthy Atlanta lawyer and making his small Chi-town tidy-freak girlfriend feel worthwhile again. However neither Maggie or Destiny believe a second of his lawyer client story. Divided loyalties and invisible clues bring strange bedfellows into the fold while detective soon learns that Wes, Destiny and Missy, owed lots of money brokers add colour and style to the characters we've already fallen for as small town Montgomery County Dallas housewife Debbie Deets will have said 'I stabbed Sam' if only she'd known what was going on all along. Revenge in your face whenever you least expect is Stephanie Bond through and through.
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