The Affliction: A Novel

  • Autor: Beth Gutcheon
  • Narrador: Hillary Huber
  • Editora: HarperCollins USA
  • Duração: 11:59:10
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Sinopse

The New York Times bestselling author of More Than You Know, Leeway Cottage, and Death at Breakfast delivers the second installment in her clever romp of a mystery series combining social comedy and dark-hearted murder—a novel set at a girls’ boarding school in a picturesque Hudson River town with more than its share of secrets.

Since retiring as head of a famous New York City private school, Maggie Detweiler is busier than ever. Chairing a team to evaluate the faltering Rye Manor School for girls, she will determine whether, in spite of its fabled past, the school has a future at all. With so much on the line for so many, tensions on campus are at an excruciating pitch, and Maggie expects to be as welcome as a case of Ebola virus.

At a reception for the faculty and trustees to ""welcome"" Maggie’s team, no one seems more keen for all to go well than Florence Meagher, a star teacher who is loved and respected in spite of her affliction—that she can never stop talking.

Florence is one of those dedicated teachers for whom the school is her life, and yet the next morning, when Maggie arrives to observe her teaching, Florence is missing. Florence’s husband, Ray, an auxiliary policeman in the village, seems more annoyed than alarmed at her disappearance. But Florence’s sister is distraught. There have been tensions in the marriage, and at their last visit, Florence had warned, ""If anything happens to me, don’t assume it’s an accident.""

Two days later, Florence’s body is found in the campus swimming pool.

Maggie is asked to stay on to coach the very young and inexperienced head of Rye Manor through the crisis. Maggie obviously knows schools, but she also knows something about investigating murder, having solved a mysterious death in Maine the previous year when the police went after the wrong suspect. She is soon joined by her madcap socialite friend Hope, who is jonesing for an excuse to ditch her book club anyway, before she has to actually read Silas Marner.

What on earth is going on in this idyllic town? Is this a run-of-the-mill marital murder? Or does it have something to do with the school board treasurer’s real estate schemes? And what is up with the vicious cyber-bullying that’s unsettled everyone, or with the disturbed teenaged boy whom Florence had made a pet of? And is it possible that someone killed Florence just so she’d finally shut up?

Capítulos

  • 001 The Affliction

    Duração: 11s
  • 002 Tuesday April 21

    Duração: 32min
  • 003 Wednesday April 22

    Duração: 23min
  • 004 Thursday April 23

    Duração: 44min
  • 005 Friday April 24

    Duração: 56min
  • 006 Saturday April 25

    Duração: 38min
  • 007 Sunday April 26

    Duração: 15min
  • 008 Monday April 27

    Duração: 01h12min
  • 009 Tuesday April 28

    Duração: 36min
  • 010 Wednesday April 29

    Duração: 45min
  • 011 Thursday April 30

    Duração: 36min
  • 012 Friday May 1

    Duração: 10min
  • 013 Saturday May 2

    Duração: 40min
  • 014 Sunday May 3

    Duração: 12min
  • 015 Tuesday May 5

    Duração: 03min
  • 016 Wednesday May 6

    Duração: 24min
  • 017 Thursday May 7

    Duração: 13min
  • 018 Friday May 8

    Duração: 18min
  • 019 Saturday May 9

    Duração: 23min
  • 020 Sunday May 10

    Duração: 17min
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