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First tagged "female detective" by Vicki Delany
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Product Description
Meanwhile, a immature lady has left missing, and a suspicions of a townspeople tumble on Rebecca's handsome, desirable hermit Jimmy. Before long, assault threatens and Rebecca contingency put aside some long-held grievances to strengthen Jimmy and find a genuine killer.
This entrance novel will interest to readers of Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs and Pip Granger's Not All Tarts Are Apple and a sequels, evoking admiration, respect, and magnetism for members of The Greatest Generation, both English and Canadian.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #5686848 in Books
- Published on: 2012-04-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 250 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Well-crafted storytelling and an evocative environment make for a rewarding entrance from Canadian visitor Delany. Prodigal daughter Rebecca McKenzie, a widow and abounding Vancouver executive, earnings to Hope River, her suffocating Ontario hometown, for a initial time in 30 years, to attend a wake of her mother, a usually family member from whom she's not estranged. While she stays tethered around a phone lines to her office, she struggles to solve aged grudges with her comparison siblings, serve difficult by her brother's probable impasse with a immature woman's disappearance. The additional time during home with her clearly unequaled father reacquaints her with her family in a present; 60 years of her mother's diaries give her a possibility to see that things in Hope River aren't how she remembers them and presumably were never unequivocally what she suspicion they were. The diary narrative, presented in swapping chapters, is generally poignant, chronicling a tough life of a immature English fight bride trapped in a siege of Canada, where her new father-in-law is as cold and infamous as a winters. The usually obstacle is a delegate characters—cartoonish villains and too-good-to-be-true allies—who detract from Delany's differently sublime and layered depictions. (Mar. 28)
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From Booklist
Delany delivers an superb entrance novel that explores a good, a bad, and a nauseous of family relationships. Granted, in a box of Rebecca McKenzie's family, it's mostly bad and ugly. A Vancouver business executive, Rebecca earnings to her childhood home, a tiny Canadian city of Hope River, to attend her mother's funeral. Her 30-year deficiency has finished zero to ingratiate Rebecca with her sour sister, Shirley, and even some-more problematic, their hermit Jimmy is in trouble--again. A immature lady is missing, and a townspeople's fury is focused on ne'er-do-well Jimmy, for whom a lady was working. At initial rarely skeptical, Rebecca starts to see that Jimmy unequivocally has altered and takes stairs to strengthen him from vigilantes when a girl's physique is discovered. Meanwhile, Rebecca starts reading her mother's World War II journals and inadvertently causes some oversize skeletons to come acrobatics out of a closet. Delany mixes a constrained crime story with a transparent evocation of parochial hostility, divulgence in a routine that even dysfunctional families have bonds. Jenny McLarin
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Review
A vital partial of Delany's success is a reduction of adore and annoy with that she describes life in Hope River, a Ontario encampment where Rebecca McKenzie
grew adult and where small has altered given she escaped, initial to Toronto and afterwards to Vancouver. "We walked silently behind to a house," McKenzie says.
"The cloud sweeping diluted as night staid in though a moon had not nonetheless risen. With no high shaggy trees to shade them, a oppressive yellow light from a travel lamps shone distant too bright, restraint any steer of stars on this transparent night."
But a distressing spine of "Scare a Light Away" is a diary of McKenzie's mother, a divulgence and transparent request that not usually helps allege a mystery's tract (a immature lady has been murdered, and McKenzie's uneasy hermit is a heading suspect) though that also shows how dour life was in Hope River during World War II--especially when one of a group left behind was a British fight bride's violent father-in-law.
Delany does all right, adding adequate twists to a informed story to make her Hope River, past and present, a place from that we all could have escaped. -- Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune (6 Mar 2005)
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4 of 5 people found a following examination helpful.
fabulous Canadian family drama
By Harriet Klausner
Vancouver bank executive and widow Rebecca McKenzie swore she would never lapse to her home city of Hope River. However, a usually chairman who could ever presumably get Rebecca to return, her dear mom, died so she has come home for a funeral. Her father welcomes her as if she was never away; her comparison sister Shirley resents her; her comparison hermit Jimmy wants her to pardon him for his function as a teen towards her when he emulated their sociopathic grandfather with Rebecca being an abused victim.
Her father gives her diaries that her mom kept generally during World War II when she a Brit, married a Canadian infantryman and relocated to Canada where she met "It" her terrorizing father-in-law. In town, she is accosted by dual indignant group who censure Jimmy as a former crook for a disappearance of a renouned high propagandize student, Jennifer Taylor. As Rebecca meets her nieces, nephews and other kin for a initial time and reads a diaries she starts to feel for her father and her siblings. As a contingent reconciles Rebecca investigates what happened to Jennifer given she no longer believes a reformed Jimmy did anything.
SCARE THE NIGHT AWAY is a fanciful Canadian family play with a torment that comes in a latter half of a story portion as a matter towards bringing an divide family together. The story line is impression driven mostly by Rebecca and how she relates with her father, her siblings, their spouses, children, and grandchildren. The diary serves as a plain subplot describing Rebecca's sociopath grandfather terrorizing her parents. Readers will suffer a dungeon phone finale to a clever impression study.
Harriet Klausner
1 of 3 people found a following examination helpful.
Excrutiatingly boring
By Lelia
Unbearably aspiring writing. Depressing characters. Rape. Incest. Stereotypes. Lots of peeing and descriptions of toilets. Constant reminders that a anecdotist is well-endowed. Hackneyed, "I found my mother's diary, wow she had secrets, though she still loves me" approach. This book has them all. Morbidly uninteresting, presumably successful and empowered, aged widowed womanlike earnings to stage of dreary, tedious life and finds it (surprise, surprise) dull and tedious and drags us down with her. Gets her thrills in how catastrophic everybody else around her has been and wonders because no one likes her. Yeah, there's a crime in there somewhere, though by a time we have waded by all a impression issues, we unequivocally don't caring anymore. The many sparkling thing about this book was being means to lapse it to a library.
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