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The Swimming Pool (2010)

by Holly LeCraw(Favorite Author)
2.89 of 5 Votes: 5
ISBN
0385531931 (ISBN13: 9780385531931)
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English
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Doubleday
review 1: I didn't enjoy this book very much. I am interested in thrillers that have to deal with deaths and love affairs. However, I found it incredibly hard to follow. The author didn't do a great job of introducing the characters, so, from the beginning I was lost. It's a very upsetting tail about families that are brought together again after many years of someones death. Two main characters, Jed and Callie are siblings on a quest. Jed has taken a leave of absence from his law office to loll about with his post­partum afflicted sister, Callie, and her two kids at the old family summer home on Cape Cod. Their Mom was murdered seven years earlier, and their Dad died in a mysterious car accident soon after. So Jed and Callie are on a mission to figure out what exactly is goin... moreg on.
review 2: There is a mystery here but it is secondary to the rest of the story, which is about marriage, love, betrayal. Sounds like a cheesy movie of the week but it is anything but that: it deals with marital betrayal in a serious, thoughtful, beautifully written but heartbreaking way. And the mystery, about the wife of a man who is having an affair, who is found dead, stabbed to death, in her home, is interesting but, unlike most other novels with a murder in them, not as interesting as the rest of the story. Definitely recommend! less
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Cathode
It was pretty good. I think I heard about it from some magazine's book club.
Asma
Complicated - a lot of stories in one book...
tiffany
I just finished reading this book.
SarinaMarie
I loved the book!!!
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