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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Crime Rotenberg's last two mysteries were excellent but somehow this one ended up collecting dust, which was a pity because it was even more gripping than the others. Right from the beginning we know who will be charged with murder and the ensuing courtroom drama was intense. The back story involves the election for Toronto's mayor. That the frontrunner is a (former Ontario premier) Rob Ford lookalike is barely concealed. Who said Canadian elections are boring? Ari Greene is on his way to meet Crown Attorney Jennifer Raglan at the Maple Leaf Motel for their weekly morning of love making. She has told him this will be the last time for she is leaving her husband for Ari. When he gets there, he finds her strangled. Thinking the killer has just fled, he sets out in pursuit rather than calling 911. This mistake leads his friend, Detective Kennicott, the officer to whom the case is assigned to track him down and arrest him for murder. Rotenberg has me off guard immediately as Raglan has been a regular in the previous three books he has written about murders and the following trials in Toronto. Greene is one of his main characters too. The story is full of twists and turns and kept me reading late into the night. Nice touch having the mayor in the novel a mirror of Mayor Rob Ford who has put Toronto on the map with his illegal antics. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Fact or fiction? Current events in the City of Toronto echo the plot of Robert Rotenberg's latest legal thriller Stranglehold. Everyone is saying he predicted the future for Toronto's mayor. Read it and find out! Ripped from the headlines, Stranglehold is bestselling author Robert Rotenberg's most shocking book yet, featuring Detective Ari Greene in the fight of his life. It is just after Labour Day and the city is kicking into gear. All eyes are on the hotly contested election for Toronto's next mayor and crime is the big issue. Greene is no stranger to the worst of what the city has to offer, but even he is unprepared for what happens next when he stumbles upon a horrific homicide. In one nightmare moment his world is flipped upside down. Soon Greene is pitted against his young protégé, Daniel Kennicott, who arrests him for first-degree murder. Tied down on house arrest as he awaits his trial, Greene has to find a way to clear his name, and also must face some very hard truths: that he didn't really know the people he believed in most; that there are unseen forces at work prepared to see him take the fall; and most of all, that he should never underestimate the price people will pay for love. Eerily reminiscent of the scandal surrounding the current Toronto mayor, Stranglehold is Rotenberg's fourth gripping mystery set on the streets and in the courtrooms of the city, capturing audiences with his masterful knowledge of the intricacies of the criminal justice system and feel for the emotions that make people tick. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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