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Tok
Jul 03, 2017 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: book-i-own
If you love Confessions, you will like this one.

เด็กห้าคนเล่นอยู่ในสนามโรงเรียน อยู่ดีๆมีลุงคนหนึงเดินมาบอกขอให้ช่วยหน่อย แล้วพาเด็กคนหนึงไป ปรากฎต่อมาเด็กคนนั้นถูกพบเป็นศพ ตำรวจไม่เคยระบุฆาตกรได้ เพื่อนทั้งสี่ต่างก็มีปฏิกิริยาต่อเหตุการณ์ต่างกันออกไป ความรู้สึกผิดที่ต้องแบกรับไว้ และยิ่งหนักขึ้นไปอีกเมื่อฝ่ายแม่ของเหยื่อโกรธ และกล่าวว่าเด็กทั้งสี่ที่เป็นต้นเหตุและ 'จำหน้าเหยื่อไม่ได้'

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Julie Griffin
Aug 21, 2021 rated it really liked it
They are lucky to be alive. But are they really?
On a three-day holiday weekend in a small town, five little girls play ball at their school grounds; a man asks for help in the building and one goes with him, and only four little girls come home that day. The lasting effects of that murder have lasting, devastating effects on the five most touched by the tragedy, the four survivors and the murdered girl's mother. What happens with them is as important to this story, if not more so, than who murde
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Barondestructo
May 23, 2018 rated it it was ok
The lives of four young women are inextricably linked to a childhood tragedy, the murder of a friend, that has remained unsolved for over a decade. The victim's grief-stricken mother, frustrated by a lack of closure, holds the girls responsible and curses them. Over the course of the book, each girl relates her penance - and the personal tragedies that have befallen her.

A great set-up but, having read a number of similar Japanese thrillers, I was expecting to be underwhelmed when all was said an
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Juliana Philippa
Jan 18, 2017 marked it as to-read
Beverly
Feb 16, 2017 marked it as to-read
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alana
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Apr 15, 2017 marked it as to-read
Sk888888
Jul 22, 2017 rated it really liked it
Tammy AZ
Feb 05, 2018 rated it liked it
Shelves: genre-mystery, edgars
Tuck
Jun 02, 2020 marked it as to-read
Pam
Jun 02, 2021 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Johanne
Jul 25, 2021 marked it as to-read
Ann
Mar 29, 2022 marked it as to-read