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| Original Title: | Frantic |
| ISBN: | 033042369X (ISBN13: 9780330423694) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Detective Ella Marconi #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Davitt Award for Best Adult Novel (2008) |
Katherine Howell
Paperback | Pages: 362 pages Rating: 3.7 | 587 Users | 111 Reviews
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| Title | : | Frantic (Detective Ella Marconi #1) |
| Author | : | Katherine Howell |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 362 pages |
| Published | : | 2007 by Pan Macmillan Australia |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Crime. Fiction. Thriller. Cultural. Australia |
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In one terrible moment, paramedic Sophie Phillips' life is torn apart; her police officer husband, Chris, is shot on their doorstep and their ten-month-old son, Lachlan, is stolen from his bed. The police suspect Chris is involved with a number of armed hold-ups and that the attack is revenge for his desire to distance himself from the robberies, but Sophie believes the attack is much more personal and the perpetrator far more dangerous...While Chris is in hospital and the police, led by Detective Ella Marconi, are moving heaven and earth to find their colleague's child, Sophie's desperation to make amends compels her to search for Lachlan herself. She enlists her husband's partner, Angus Arendson, in her hunt for her son, but will the history they share prove harmful to Sophie's ability to complete her mission?
And could one dangerous decision cause Sophie to ultimately lose everything important in her life?
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Ratings: 3.7 From 587 Users | 111 ReviewsDiscuss Of Books Frantic (Detective Ella Marconi #1)
I know I read this book out of order by reading the third one first, but Katherine Howell did not disappoint me. I really like her character of Detective Ella Marconi, a woman who is not only struggling to be accepted in the male dominated world of homicide, but despite the tough exterior she tries to portray, she is a woman who has heart, one who allows guilt to creep in after questioning a man for information, who is later silenced.It will take you on a heart wrenching journey of a mother, aSynopsis/blurb....In one terrible moment, paramedic Sophie Phillips life is ripped apart her police officer husband, Chris, is shot on their doorstep and their ten-month-old son, Lachlan, is abducted from his bed. Suspicion surrounds Chris as he is tainted with police corruption, but Sophie believes the attack is much more personal and the perpetrator far more dangerous...While Chris is in hospital and the police, led by Detective Ella Marconi, mobilise to find their colleague's child,
I grabbed Frantic from my pile of library books, since I'd just gotten an overdue notice (though now I can renew my loans online - how cool is that!) and took it with me to read during my children's swimming lessons. I'm glad the swimming center has lifeguards because I was soon engrossed in the frantic pace (pun intended) of this novel by Katherine Howell.My interest in this book was initially based on the fact that the main character in this psychological thriller is a female ambulance officer
Katherine explained at a writers meeting I attended, that she had taken six years to write her first novel only to have it rejected. When she got it back, she researched the best ways to make a reader get involved with the story was to create suspense, and make the reader care what happened to the main characters. She re-wrote the book and this is the nail biting result.Sophie Phillips is an ambulance driver, and her husband Chris is a policeman, they have a beautiful baby son Lachlan. Sophie is
As always, I'm coming across great books I otherwise wouldn't have known about through Goodreads, particularly my Aussie Readers group - many thanks to all my friends that wrote glowing reviews for this book. They were all five stars by the way! Being number one in the series, I requested my library add it to their catalogue as they had every other book in the series bar this one, so they happily ordered it quickly for me. I love reading a lovely crisp new copy! I think this is a great asset to
Sophie is a paramedic and her husband a city police officer. As a gang of bank robbers terrorise the city and taunt the police forces inability to capture them, Chris faces pressure from the public, sensitive to their scrutiny. Now theres some suspicion that there are police involved within the gang after a phone call to the media. When Chris is found shot in the head on the doorstep of their home and their 10 month old son Lachlan missing, Sophies life is ripped apart.Both she and Chris believe
I have read this series completely out of order, which changes how I think about this first Emma Marconi book. I really didn't like this one, and if I have read it first I probably would have left the rest on the shelf. She gets much better, tighter, and characters in future books are far less irritating than those in this debut. Certainly the melodrama gets turned down in latter books - so she is a writer who learns from her mistakes.Apart from Marconi - all the other characters in "Frantic"
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