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The Golden Gate
(Corvus £16.99, 384pp)
(Corvus £16.99, 384pp)
Brimful of 陰謀（を企てる）, packed with intriguing characters and 始める，決める against a 背景 of wide-広範囲にわたる political change, the debut novel by the author of the memoir 戦う／戦い Hymn Of The Tiger Mother is a riveting homage to American 罪，犯罪 noir.
It’s 1944, and 大統領の 希望に満ちた and millionaire 有力者／大事業家 Walter Wilkinson has been 発射. 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うs are Isabella Stafford and her cousins Nicola and Cassie Bainbridge ― all 相続人s to the fortune of grandmother Genevieve, who knows all the family secrets, but 辞退するs to say who pulled the 誘発する／引き起こす.
Hard-boiled 殺人 探偵，刑事 Al Sullivan is 意図 on identifying the 殺し屋, while taking care of his young niece, fending off the approaches of femme 致命的な Isabella and unravelling a 支援する story that takes in race, class, 汚職, political ambition and doomed family history.
The Vaster Wilds
(Heinemann £20, 272pp)
(Heinemann £20, 272pp)
It’s the depth of winter in New England of 1610 and a woman is 猛烈に 逃げるing the 包囲するd Jamestown 植民地, where the inhabitants are slowly dying of smallpox and 餓死.
There’s fresh 血 underneath her fingernails, stolen boots on her feet, 殺人 in her heart and a 決意 to 生き残る. What follows is a 実験（する） of endurance and resourcefulness. Foraging for food, building 解雇する／砲火／射撃s and making 避難所s, she crosses the 背信の landscape, leaving behind her servant past as she 長，率いるs into an uncertain 未来.
It’s a novel of bleakness and beauty, as the relentless 需要・要求するs of eking out a life 難破させる her ‘good strong dancing 団体／死体’, while the wonders of nature leave her spirit ‘ravished’.
Sisters Under The Rising Sun
(Zaffre £20, 400pp)
(Zaffre £20, 400pp)
More heartbreak and 静かな heroism here from the best-selling author of The Tattooist Of Auschwitz, who tells the story of a group of more than 500 women held 囚人 by the Japanese in 残虐な Indonesian ジャングル （軍の）野営地，陣営s.
の中で them are the 勇敢に立ち向かう Australian nursing sisters, 含むing the redoubtable Nesta James (whose real life experiences 奮起させるd the novel) and Norah 議会s, an 遂行するd musician, who brings the solace of song to the ill and 餓死するing women and children.
Morris’ unadorned prose 作品 best when 述べるing the dehumanising 条件s in the （軍の）野営地，陣営s, and the women’s valiant 成果／努力s to fight despair, but there’s a stilted sameness to the 対話 that blurs the individuality of her characters, and 追加するs an unneeded gloss of sentimentality to a harrowing story.
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