![]() This is the meeting place for readers to discuss their favourites and recommend new authors, and the place for budding and established mystery, crime and thriller writers to introduce us to their efforts. Join our intrepid moderators, “DCI” Donna, “Sherlock” Hayes, Nancy “Drew”, and Randy Money as we read and discuss our favourites, recommend new authors and explore the Genre. Rain spattered a mysterious, hooded stranger who peered over the hedgerow at the darkened, quiet house.”ĭo lines like these quicken your heartbeat and pique your interest? Then Welcome to the Mystery, Crime and Thriller Group! This is the place for you. Lightning flashed and thunder rolled across the sky. Rain spattered a mysterious, hooded stranger who peered over th Vincent Lowry (Moderator, Author, & Photographer)Īuthors and readers are invited to check out these additional links:ġ) The Author Resource Round Table on Goodreads: It is divided by genres, and includes folders for writing resources, book websites, videos/trailers, and blogs.įeel free to invite some friends to join our Round Table community! ![]() ![]() It is divided by genres, and includes folders for writing resources, book websit This group is dedicated to connecting readers with Goodreads authors. ![]() This group is dedicated to connecting readers with Goodreads authors. ![]()
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![]() Saadawi then transitioned to researching women’s neurosis for a prominent medical university, and then served as an adviser for the United Nations. Although the controversial feminist book was widely successful in Egypt and abroad, it cost Saadawi both her directorship and the journal. In 1972, while working as a public health director and editor of a prominent health journal, Saadawi published Women and Sex, which catalogued the various ways that patriarchal society dominates women and violates their personal agency. After two brief marriages, she married a prominent communist activist in 1964, whom had previously spent 13 years as a political prisoner. ![]() As a physician, she realized that many women’s physical and psychological ills were rooted in class oppression and gendered oppression. Saadawi studied in Cairo, where she graduated as a doctor in 1955. ![]() Both of Sadaawi’s parents died early, leaving her as the sole guardian for her younger siblings. ![]() At six years old, her father had her circumcised yet also provided her an education and encouraged her to think and speak forthrightly. Saadawi was born the second of nine children, to a family that was progressive, yet slave to certain traditions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dicker’s quasi-autobiographical frankness, his heartfelt tribute to his publisher, and the pull between past and present keep the pages turning. ![]() Flashbacks to the days leading up to the murder include the points of view of Macaire, Lev, and Macaire’s wife, each of whom comes across as brilliant and bumbling in turn. ![]() The present-day action shifts between their research about the cold case, full of the reminiscences of the few witnesses they can track down, and the story of Macaire Ebezner, whose planned succession to the presidency of his family bank-which was holding its annual gala at the hotel at the time of the murder-is being thwarted by a board who prefers his business rival, rising star Lev Levovich. Sixteen years after the unsolved murder, author Joël Dicker, who’s reeling from the recent death of his beloved publisher, arrives at the luxury hotel, where he and an aspiring author he meets by chance resolve to explore why there’s no longer a room 622. The discovery of a body in room 622 of the Hôtel de Verbier in the Swiss Alps propels this intricately plotted tour de force from Swiss author Dicker ( The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair). ![]() |