A Nearly Normal Family : A Novel (CD-Audio)

from rmarcin

Thanks to NetGalley for an ARC of A Nearly Normal Family. I enjoyed this novel about a court case set in Sweden. It followed the trial of Stella, who was accused of murder. The novel is told in 3 voices, Stella, and her mother, and her father. It examines Stella's explosive behavior and her tight...

from LynnB

As the novel opens, we learn that 18-year-old Stella Sandell is charged with the murder of Chris Olsen, a thirty-something man she's been involved with. This story is partly a courtroom drama and partly the story of a family. It explores what parents would do to protect their children, and how st...

from maggiewurzer

A psychological thriller, a legal drama, a family drama - this book is everything! It's all about the characters. Told from the point of view of three different unreliable narrators, not only do the characters not know who to trust, but you don't know who to trust either! How far would you go to ...

from

A well written family drama around a murder. The book is written from the perspectives of the father, the mother and the suspect (their daughter). The book flows through each narrative carrying the story forward while feeling in small holes in the story. I feel that the mother's story was not as ...

from Sharn

I was hoping for action but unfortunately this courtroom drama was not action packed. Doesn't make it a bad book, it was quite good, actually. The story was told from 3 different point of views and I find, more often than not, that parts of the story become redundant making the story longer than ...