Ripper a novel
The Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, have always had each other. Yet, while their bond is strong, mother and daughter are as different as night and day. Indiana, a beautiful holistic healer, is a free-spirited bohemian, who looks for the good in people. Amanda is fascinated by the dark side of hum...
| Main Author: | Allende, Isabel. |
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| Other Authors: | Brock, Oliver (Translator), Wynne, Frank. |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Spanish |
| Published: |
New York :
Harper,
c2014.
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| Edition: | 1st HarperLuxe ed. |
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| Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
| Summary: |
The Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, have always had each other. Yet, while their bond is strong, mother and daughter are as different as night and day. Indiana, a beautiful holistic healer, is a free-spirited bohemian, who looks for the good in people. Amanda is fascinated by the dark side of human nature, like her father, the SFPD's Deputy Chief of Homicide. She is addicted to crime novels and Ripper, the online mystery game she plays. When a string of strange murders occurs across the city, Amanda plunges into her own investigation, discovering, before the police do, that the deaths may be connected. But the case becomes all too personal when Indiana suddenly vanishes. |
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| Item Description: |
Originally published in Spain as "Destripador" in 2014 by Random House Mondadori. |
| Physical Description: |
478 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780062291400 (hardback) 0062291408 (hardback) 9780062291424 (paperback) 0062291424 (paperback) 0062325922 (international edition) 9780062325921 (international edition) 0062291416 (ebook) 9780062291417 (ebook) |
| Author Notes: |
While living in Venezuela, Allende began writing her novels, many of them exploring the close family bonds between women. Her first novel, The House of the Spirits, has been translated into 27 languages, and was later made into a film. She then wrote Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna, and The Stories of Eva Luna, all set in Latin America. The Infinite Plan was her first novel to take place in the United States. She explores the issues of human rights and the plight of immigrants and refugees in her novel, In The Midst of Winter. In Paula, Allende wrote her memoirs in connection with her daughter's illness and death. She delved into the erotic connections between food and love in Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses. In addition to writing books, Allende has worked as a TV interviewer, magazine writer, school administrator, and a secretary at a U.N. office in Chile. She received the 1996 Harold Washington Literacy Award. She lives in California. Her title Maya's Notebook made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2013. (Bowker Author Biography) |