Haven't Killed in Years
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3,9 • Оценок: 10
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No one is supposed to know harmless office worker Gwen Tanner is the vanished daughter of serial killer Abel Haggerty. But a low profile and a new name aren’t going to cut it when an obsessive new killer starts targeting her, in this lively and propulsive thriller with a standout voice.
Marin Haggerty, the daughter of a notorious serial killer, was only a child when they arrested her father. Ripped from her home and given a new identity, Marin disappeared.
Twenty years later, Gwen Tanner keeps everyone at a distance, preferring to satirize the world around her than participate in it. It’s for her safety—and theirs. But when someone starts sending body parts to her front door, the message is clear: I Know Who You Are.
To preserve her secrets, Gwen must hunt down the killer, a journey which immerses her in the twisted world of true crime fandom and makes her confront her past once and for all. Maybe she is capable of deep, human connections, but she’s not the only one keeping secrets. Will opening herself up to others help her find the killer, or remind her why it was necessary she hide her true self in the first place?
The apple never falls too far, after all.
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Green's uneven sophomore thriller (after The Prized Girl) centers on Gwen Tanner, the daughter of a serial killer, who has refashioned herself into an unassuming financial services employee. Approaching 30, Gwen—whose birth name is Marin Haggerty—spends most of her free time sculpting pottery that she destroys before firing it in the kiln. When she was nine, Gwen's father, Abel, was convicted on eight counts of first-degree murder, and her mother, Reanne, went to prison for aiding and abetting his crimes. Gwen, meanwhile, was sent to an institution for troubled children that eventually set her up with her new identity. Her quiet life is disrupted when a human forearm is left on her doorstep in Boston shortly after Reanne is released from prison. Worried that someone has discovered her real identity, Gwen sheds her office drone persona to become an intrepid gumshoe, going undercover on a "murder tour" offered by a man who's visited her father in prison and pursuing other leads. The search makes her surprisingly nostalgic for her unstable childhood—and proves that her past has long been closer than she thought. Green ropes readers in with a canny premise and a tantalizing mystery, but the narrative quickly becomes unwieldy, with the relentless pile-on of potential suspects slowing momentum to a crawl. It's a mixed bag.
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DNF
Did not finish. I felt like story was poorly executed and had way too much information that was not relevant to the story and did nothing to add depth to the story. Difficult read for me.