Ripper

Ripper
Isabel Allende
Our Price:
NZ$ 27.99
Paperback
Not defined - 576pg
3 Mar 2021 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9780063021822
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A gripping thriller from the bestselling Isabel Allende. For Amanda Martin and her friends, Ripper was all just a game. But then the murders began in real life, and San Francisco was once again in thrall to a cold-blooded killer. The police can't crack the case alone, and the murderer is creeping ever closer to Amanda herself. Will she and her online accomplices solve the mystery before it's too late?
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A literary banquet overflowing with morsels of Nancy Drew, mouthfuls of Agatha Christie, a sprinkle of Barbara Cartland and dashes of James Patterson and Tom Clancy ... [The]combination of detective story and romantic saga is likely to intrigue Allende fans ... What lingers is Allende's generosity with fictional detail, her warmth and humanity' Observer 'Idiosyncratic, unflinching, glaringly contemporary (it is about a bunch of online gamers who end up tracking a serial killer in San Francisco) and obviously much better written than it needs to be. Allende excels at exacting portraiture and barbed asides' Guardian 'As it gathers pace, the tale becomes gripping and delivers a clever final twist' Sunday Times '"Ripper" is full of wry humour. Brimming over with humanity it is very far from being a straightforward thriller ... All Allende's habitual concerns are on display: the interplay of character, the importance of family and the conflicting pulls of religion, spiritualism and alternative remedies ... Allende manages to pull it off as a terrific storyteller. She holds the reader's attention from start to finish and throws in a neat twist at the end' Daily Express, Five Stars 'Thoroughly charming book ... a lot of fun to read. Also, it features a teenage sleuth... who is pretty much irresistible ... Allende blithely dispenses with the more restrictive genre conventions to get to the fun parts ... A canvas so crowded with life that even death seems to melt into the background' New York Times 'Literary icon Isabel Allende mesmerizes with her first crime novel ... this race-against-the-clock thriller is pure magic' People Magazine 'The author handles a complicated plot and complex characters with great skill' Country Life Magazine
Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the author of eighteen books, including 'Ines of My Soul', 'Daughter of Fortune', and 'Portrait in Sepia'. She has also written a collection of stories, four memoirs, and a trilogy of children's novels. Her books have been translated into more than twenty-seven languages and have become bestsellers across four continents. In 2004 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Isabel Allende lives in California.

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