Fiona Barton's Top 3 Books

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That the literary vocation can be something latent, satisfied at the right time after long years, is something manifest in authors who arrived after 40 or 50. I remember illustrious cases such as Chandler or Defoe. The first published his first novel at 44 and ...

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The Mother, by Fiona Barton

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Fiona Barton's long career as a crime reporter was paving the way for her recent appearance as a thriller writer. And nothing better to start with than to hide in an alter ego such as Kate Waters to tackle her first novel The Widow and this second one that returns to ...

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The Widow, by Fiona Barton

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The shadow of doubt about a character is a disturbing factor in any thriller or crime novel worth its salt. Sometimes, the reader himself participates in a certain complicity with the writer, which allows him to glimpse beyond what the characters know about evil. In others …

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