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Julie Parsons

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Værker af Julie Parsons

Mary, Mary (1998) 183 eksemplarer
The Courtship Gift (1999) 171 eksemplarer
Eager to Please (2000) 170 eksemplarer
The Guilty Heart (2003) 87 eksemplarer
Timeglasset (2005) 72 eksemplarer
I Saw You (2008) 30 eksemplarer
The Therapy House (2017) 13 eksemplarer
The Smoking Room (2004) 6 eksemplarer
2 x Julie Parsons (2002) 4 eksemplarer
Alpha Wave (2011) 2 eksemplarer

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Irish Girls About Town: An Anthology of Short Stories (2002) — Bidragyder — 583 eksemplarer

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1951-05
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Al tien jaar lang wordt de pas gepensioneerde politieman Michael McLoughlin achtervolgd door de zaak van een jonge vrouw die op gruwelijke wijze is vermoord en de genegenheid die hij voelt voor de moeder van het slachtoffer, Margaret Mitchell. Een wederdienst voor een vriend leidt hem naar een andere vrouw die een kind heeft verloren… haar dochter Marina is verdronken. Een ongeluk, zelfmoord… of moord?
Margaret denkt dat ze aan haar verleden kan ontsnappen, maar de herinneringen aan haar dochter – en aan diens moordenaar – geven haar geen rust. Uiteindelijk keert ze terug naar Dublin om de confrontatie aan te gaan met haar demonen. Een ontmoeting met een jong meisje op een kerkhof leidt haar naar een man die ze nooit had gedacht terug te zien…… (mere)
 
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Lin456 | 1 anden anmeldelse | Oct 20, 2020 |
Kiwi-Irish author Julie Parsons book THE THERAPY HOUSE is an intricate pscyhological observation, interweaving current day crime with Irish history to great effect.

Exploring history and crime in terms of it's impact on survivors and/or families and on society in general, THE THERAPY HOUSE is absorbing, chilling, intricate and beautifully written. At the heart of the novel, Garda Inspector Michael McLoughlin is attempting retirement, doing a bit of PI work on the side, but mostly restoring a beautiful old house in the Dublin suburbs - a house that turns out to have as complicated a past as McLoughlin himself. McLoughlin's father was murdered many years ago, supposedly getting in the way during an IRA robbery, an event that haunts him to this day, especially as the killers now have a high profile part to play in Irish politics and the peace process.

The house which plays a big part in keeping him grounded, safe and occupied, is known as "The Therapy House" because of its past use as a counselling and medical practice. In a further sign that history is never far away from him, next door lives John Hegarty, retired judge, having had a distinguished legal career and importantly, the son of Dan Hegarty, colleague of well known Irish independence figure Michael Collins. Until he is killed, and McLoughlin discovers his brutalised body. The family hire McLoughlin to look into Hegarty's background, although the agreement is part hiring, part bribing with the suggestion that there is something in that past that relates to the death of McLoughlin's father.

Needless to say, layering and interconnections are a big part of style of THE THERAPY HOUSE. Slowly and intricately dissecting those layers and connections is part of what makes this novel so absorbing, as is the way that readers are frequently left to draw conclusions, and answer many of the questions posited by the author. The pace is leisurely, the sense of place strong, and sense of culture all consuming. The way the past affects the current is elegantly done as well with everything - from the therapy house itself, the location, the Hegarty and McLoughlin families, Ireland's troubled background - blending together to create echoes and portents, guidance and regret.

In the end there's a lot of regret thoroughout this novel, there's a real sense that it doesn't matter sometimes how often we're given a chance to learn lessons, we're going to be too old to do anything about it by the time we remember them.

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/therapy-house-julie-parsons
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austcrimefiction | Jul 26, 2018 |
 
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Stormchaser | 5 andre anmeldelser | Sep 22, 2014 |
I don't even have the words to describe how nasty and distasteful I found this book—I definitely wasn't in the mood for such a heavy dose of violence against women and flippant treatment of a rapist.
 
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mari_reads | 5 andre anmeldelser | Aug 4, 2013 |

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