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Playing with Fire

Tess Gerritsen

Why we're reading this: Imagine if you were home alone and your three-year-old daughter violently attacked you.

Julia doesn’t unde…more
[close] Imagine if you were home alone and your three-year-old daughter violently attacked you.

Julia doesn’t understand what is happening to her daughter, but she thinks she knows what’s causing it. She is terrified for Lily, and for herself, but what scares her more is that no one believes her.

If she is going to help Lily, she will have to find the answers alone, embarking on a search that will take her half way around the world, to Venice.

There, Julia uncovers a heart breaking, long buried tale of tragedy and devastation – a discovery that puts her in serious danger. Some people will do anything in their power to

keep the truth silent . . . whatever the cost.

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Mar 30, 2016 Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mental-health, read-in-2016, amazing, historical-fiction

Intriguing. Tess Gerritsen continues to amaze as she crosses the boundaries of genres. Playing with Fire is written in much the same style as she did with another historical fiction novel, The Bone Garden, featuring two different narratives: one from the past & one from the present. What really dazzles is when we learn that the original music in this novel, Incendio, was composed by Tess Gerritsen (if you listen on the audiobook, you can hear this - it is also available to download online).

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Nov 06, 2015 TXreader Stacy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: thiller-suspense, arc-or-netgalley

The synopsis doesn't even scratch the surface of this book. It is so much more complicated, haunting, and beautiful than that. Lorenzo and Laura are still with me days after finishing their story.....

As far as I'm concerned you can forget about Julia's daughter and the circumstances surrounding her violent acts. They are just the catalyst for the mystery. What is really going on is this haunting piece of music Julia discovers on a trip to Rome. Who wrote it? Where did it come from?

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Nov 10, 2015 Hapzydeco rated it really liked it

More than your typical mystery. Gerritsen takes historical fiction (Holocaust) and clothes it in a crime thriller, that will enthrall you to the end.

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Jan 03, 2016 Emily rated it liked it

Shelves: read-in-2016

I was very disappointed with this book especially the ending. It felt very rushed and out of left field. Not her usual MO. The story started out great and really interesting, but about two thirds into it, things started to fall apart.

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Nov 03, 2016 Paulia BSN-RN rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: historical, read-in-2016, fiction, own, tess-gerritsen

"The world's gone mad and war has brought the barbarians to power. We must simply put up with them and adjust to the new order of things. " And then there are the brave souls that refuse to be blinded, but instead choose to fight for what is right. Such a moving and tragic tale that will bring you to tears in the end. "Music would anchor him, sustain him. In a world gone insane, it was the one thing that would help him hold on to sanity." ...more

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