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twelve year old girl becomes obsessed in the drowning of a small child in a neglected lake near Hotel Paradise forty years previously, and starts to piece together some of the events surrounding the tragedy which no-one has been able to explain. From the author of THE END OF THE PIER.
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This is perhaps Martha Grimes' most beautifully written book. Taking a break from the Jury books that made her famous, she is certainly at home in this literary genre. The 12-year-old character is wise and funny beyond her years, you can only hope that Martha decides to turn her into a recurring heroine.
A. Scheibe, editorial.
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Internationally acclaimed Martha Grimes once again turns her hand to crafting a story of such rich atmosphere and intricate suspense that she transports the reader to a world unlike any other.
A once-fashionable, now fading resort hotel. A spinster Aunt living in an attic. Dirt roads that lead to dead ends. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited for almost half a century. A twelve-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice-cream sodas, and decaying lake-fronts, and an obsession with the death by drowning of another young girl, forty years before.
Like all important events in the past, there are repercussions and ramifications in the present. In the world as seen by Martha Grimes, those repercussions simmer and seethe and wind their way through hearts and souls. The ramifications can be subtle. Or exhilarating. Passionate. And they can also be deadly.
Hotel Paradise is a delicate yet excruciating view of the pettiness and cruelty of small town America. It is a look at the difficult decisions a young girl must make on her way to becoming an adult and the choices she must make between right and wrong, between love and truth, between life and death. It is a novel with extraordinary range and depth that ultimately becomes a thrilling morality play.
With its narrative grace, its compelling characters, and its moment-to-moment suspense, Hotel Paradise is Martha Grimes at the top of her form.
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- PublisherAlfred A. Knopf Publ.
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0747215383
- ISBN 13 9780747215387
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages346
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