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Hannah Deitch
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Les héritières de Thelma et Louise !
Après des études prestigieuses, Evie Gordon semblait promise à un très bel avenir. Elle végète aujourd'hui dans une vie quelconque, donnant pour subsister des leçons particulières aux enfants des familles fortunées de Los Angeles. Un matin, alors qu'elle arrive au domicile de l'une de ses élèves, elle tombe sur les corps des parents de celle-ci, qui viennent d'être assassinés. Plus troublant encore, une inconnue, cachée dans la maison, l'appelle à l'aide. De témoins du meurtre, les deux femmes deviennent vite suspectes, puis fugitives. La presse les compare bientôt aux émules de Charles Manson, alors que la police les recherche activement dans toute la région. Afin de se disculper, Evie va devoir en découvrir davantage sur sa mystérieuse compagne d'infortune, qui se terre d'abord dans le silence, avant de faire preuve d'un indéniable talent pour échapper à tous les obstacles. Une étrange complicité va alors se nouer entre les deux femmes, qui très vite n'auront plus rien à perdre...
Hannah Deitch nous offre le superbe portrait de deux femmes, victimes de leur époque et de leur environnement, mais bien décidées à la suite d'un terrible fait divers à laisser éclater leur colère. Imaginez Thelma et Louise écrit par Gillian Flynn et vous aurez une idée de la puissance de ce premier roman, aussi provocateur que palpitant, qui culmine dans un suspense infernal. -
Darkly funny and provocative, this edge-of-your-seat thrill ride follows two unlikely fugitives--an SAT tutor who finds her rich employers brutally murdered and the bound woman she frees from their mansion--an irresistible debut novel perfect for fans of The Guest and My Sister, the Serial KillerA scholarship kid with straight As and big dreams, Evie Gordon always thought she was special, that she''d be someone. But after graduating from an elite university, she finds herself drowning in debt and working as an SAT tutor for the super-rich of Los Angeles.Everything changes one Sunday, when she arrives for her weekly lesson at the Victors'' Beverly Hills estate and, in lieu of a bored teenager, finds the bloody remains of the parents strewn through their beautiful back garden, and a woman crying for help within a closet. As Evie works to free her, the two are spotted--and within moments, they go from bystanders to suspects to fugitives.Suddenly at the heart of a manhunt and accompanied by a mysterious woman who refuses to speak, Evie knows the only way to clear her name is to find the real killer. But first she''ll have to break down the barriers of her companion, who is quickly becoming the most important person in Evie''s upside-down life. Their breathless spree takes them across the U.S. as developments in the case shock the nation and the press runs wild with Evie''s story: a gifted kid turned killer. She''s now on the cover of every magazine and newspaper--anointed the new Charles Manson, a bloodthirsty ninety-nine percenter looking to start a class war. Evie is finally someone.By turns cuttingly hilarious and deeply insightful, Killer Potential is a strikingly original debut. A literary novel with the page-turning intensity of a thriller that asks timely questions about our belief in the romance of social mobility, and how the stories we''re sold about our potential can shape the course of our lives.
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Darkly funny and provocative, this edge-of-your-seat thrill ride follows two unlikely fugitives--an SAT tutor who finds her rich employers brutally murdered and the bound woman she frees from their mansion--an irresistible debut novel perfect for fans of The Guest and My Sister, the Serial KillerA scholarship kid with straight As and big dreams, Evie Gordon always thought she was special, that she''d be someone. But after graduating from an elite university, she finds herself drowning in debt and working as an SAT tutor for the super-rich of Los Angeles.Everything changes one Sunday, when she arrives for her weekly lesson at the Victors'' Beverly Hills estate and, in lieu of a bored teenager, finds the bloody remains of the parents strewn through their beautiful back garden, and a woman crying for help within a closet. As Evie works to free her, the two are spotted--and within moments, they go from bystanders to suspects to fugitives.Suddenly at the heart of a manhunt and accompanied by a mysterious woman who refuses to speak, Evie knows the only way to clear her name is to find the real killer. But first she''ll have to break down the barriers of her companion, who is quickly becoming the most important person in Evie''s upside-down life. Their breathless spree takes them across the U.S. as developments in the case shock the nation and the press runs wild with Evie''s story: a gifted kid turned killer. She''s now on the cover of every magazine and newspaper--anointed the new Charles Manson, a bloodthirsty ninety-nine percenter looking to start a class war. Evie is finally someone.By turns cuttingly hilarious and deeply insightful, Killer Potential is a strikingly original debut. A literary novel with the page-turning intensity of a thriller that asks timely questions about our belief in the romance of social mobility, and how the stories we''re sold about our potential can shape the course of our lives.
