Cartwheel
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781922070784
Publish date: November 1st 2013
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Pages no: 234
Edition language: English
This is a sluggishly paced story of the characters surrounding a foreign student’s murder and her roommate’s prosecution in Argentina. The characters angst and agonize and reflect on tragedies past and present. The author puts us inside the heads of nearly every character in turn, so we have the dub...
Lily Hayes can best be described as a free spirit. Something not always understood in the more conservative surroundings of Buenos Aires where she has chosen to study abroad for one semester. She shares rooms with Katy Kellers, another exchange student. Lily has quickly become enamoured with Sebas...
I am not usually the type of person who reads books that are described as “ripped from the headlines.” I try not to watch the news on tv too much, but, if I don’t keep up with the papers, a novel like this is totally lost on me. So, when I received this book from NetGalley, I knew that it was loosel...
Had quite a while to consider my rating on this book and why so much of it just did not gel with me. I never paid much in depth attention to the Amanda Knox story, so my knowledge of said story is just bare bones. So while this is being compared to that case or said to be the trigger for this novel,...
Cartwheel It ...was...a...split! The story of Amanda Knox reminds me vividly of Joe McGinniss' true crime bestseller Fatal Vision, the 1970 case of Jeff MacDonald- ex -Green Beret surgeon accused of killing his family in "Manson-style" at his Fort Bragg military based home (it was suggested tha...
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