A Double Life: ‘Gripping’ - Erin Kelly

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Now, I'm waiting, as all readers must be, for the third book in the trilogy. And actually hoping that Philby won't stop at three. She's onto something here with her interconnected storylines. And I love it. No wonder she needs a corkboard that covers her entire wall (as she told the One More Chapter bookchat during her interview for her last book).

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My account, therefore, of involvement in some of the political developments of the following sixteen years or so is the account of a man who led the double life of a barrister and a politician, and who, if he achieved any success in either role, owed it all to having the understanding and constant support of a wonderful wife. However A Double Life was more of a domestic noir novel told from the view point of two characters: Gabriela who works for the foreign office and is living with her partner and two young children is the main focus. Isobel, the other protagonist is a reporter who witnesses a murder whilst high on drugs. Tempted, yes. But I’m not going to. Unfortunately, the sheer scale of the material is such that I’d literally have to start again. I did those books in good faith. I was thinking, “This is it. This is the 600 Bob Dylan songs that we know.” Now it’s 900. There are so many unknown songs that we didn’t know about, if you follow the story through the present, that would be a whole exercise in itself. The DCI – “a dumpy wee woman with bad hair and terrible dress sense” who can pull out “the kind of smile that makes small children whimper and cling to their mother’s legs” – is as intuitive, courageous and grumpy as ever, and McDermid’s plotting is top-notch. There is nothing more gratifying than watching a master craftswoman at work, and she is on fine form here.Me ha costado un mundo leerlo, es una historia lenta aunque bien narrada y para ser honesta me parece que me ha costado y que el sinsabor que me ha dejado el libro es provocado más debido a que encontré algo que no esperaba al leer este libro, me esperaba más bien un thriller o una novela negra o algo parecido y más bien me he encontrado con un libro narrado en primera persona que presenta una serie de cavilaciones provenientes de la mente de la protagonista, ha sido una agonía personal leerla.

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But once these savage lunges are out of the way there are no more of them, so that was a relief. Ah, yes… until he gets on to the subject of Joan Baez A Double Life tells the parallel stories of two women, Isobel, a journalist, and Gabriela, who works for the Foreign Office. It started off promisingly but then unravelled rapidly. She is married to Tom a free lance architect, who is a stay at home parent to their two children, occasionally taking on freelance work while his wife is the major breadwinner.When she receives news that her father may have been sighted again, Claire decides that enough is enough. She wants to know the truth. She has been watching his friends for years. Could they be a link to her father? Is her father innocent? Is her father a killer? Will she ever learn the truth?