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    Three

    By D.A. Mishani

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    Three seemingly disparate women in Israel are united by a troubling secret in this psychological thriller.

    When Orna meets Gil on an online dating site, their lackluster affair seems like nothing more than a way to stave off the pain of her recent divorce. But soon it becomes clear that Gil may not be exactly who he claims to be. And Orna’s own lies may be weaving an unexpected trap for her.

    Set against the turbulent backdrop of the gritty Holon neighborhood in Tel Aviv, this enigmatic and intelligent novel is in fact an intricate puzzle. Mishani’s first standalone book explores Israel’s forgotten margins, unearthing complicated layers, conflicts, and prejudices. At turns shocking, deceptive, and subversive, Three is a slow burning psychological thriller from one of Israel’s most beloved writers.

    “[A] thoughtful puzzle mystery. . . . To be sure, there are scenes of genuine terror . . . But there are also surprising plot twists and smart character insights, not to mention some terrific Tel Aviv street scenes.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

    “Mishani . . . displays a superior gift for psychological suspense in this taut and twisty standalone. . . . Mishani imbues his flawed, plausibly-drawn characters with a deep melancholy, spinning the noirish elements into a deeply satisfying conclusion. Mishani demonstrates a real flair for literary crime fiction.” —Publishers Weekly
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateAug 18, 2020
    ISBN9781609456108
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    D.A. Mishani

    D. A. Mishani is a literary scholar specializing in the history of detective literature. His first novel, The Missing File, was the inaugural book in his literary crime series featuring the police inspector Avraham Avraham.

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    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. It's a perfect length and I loved reading this thriller that took place in Israel. Highly recommend for anyone looking for something interesting and not overly involved!
    • 2/5
      Half way thru this novel I gave up. Just too boring.
    • 5/5
      I was torn on the rating I wanted to give this novel, Three by Valerie Perrin, but the characters and the story (stories) have stayed present to me for these few days which bumped it up. The main group of three friends and then the fourth who is periphery at best to the group encompass the best and the worst of friendships and cliques both growing up and as adults. These are flawed, and at times frustrating, characters. Which is to say a lot like people we all know (and ourselves if we're honest). If you like getting to know characters, especially a group along with their interactions, you will love this book for that alone.The mystery at the heart of the novel serves as much as a frame so we can jump between their school years and their present. What made these shifts in time particularly compelling was the way most of the jumps informed the sections around them. Knowing in going back the things they didn't yet know, and in coming back to the present knowing what they had thought and expected their futures to hold. If you're a reader who both inhabits the novel and relates it to your own life, this might be similar to when you pull out an old yearbook and get lost in the memories only to remember what actually has transpired since then.I probably became almost immediately invested in them early because I met one of my very best friends in school simply because we were in the same class and ended up seated by each other. Until I moved, we were inseparable, so the idea of serendipity determining one's best friend hit me close to home. I even called him to see how he and his family are doing (they're doing great, by the way!).I would recommend this to readers who enjoy taking time to get to know characters and who understand that just as in life, characters are neither all good nor all bad, yet we love them anyway.Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.
    • 4/5
      Friendships are special things and children are the best at them. They can be so open and welcoming to other children. My own children would come off of playgrounds to inform me that their new friend so and so had told them something or to ask if the new friend could come over the play. Every time they used this language: "my new friend." And while many of these were momentary friendships, not lasting any longer than the time we spent on the playground, they also developed deep and abiding friendships that persist to this day. These dear childhood friendships can be battered and they will survive but they can also be broken given enough stress on them. Valerie Perrin's latest novel, Three, centers on three friends who were inseparable as children but who have gone their own ways as adults because of tragedies and life choices.Adrien, Étienne, and Nina are only 10 years old when they meet in 1986 in their provincial French town. Nina is graceful, sensitive, and artistic, being raised by her postman grandfather since her mother left when she was small. She is the glue between the two boys. Étienne is good looking and popular, from a wealthy family, but he can never satisfy his judgmental father. Adrien is quiet and wickedly smart; he and his single mother are new to the area. Somehow these very different fifth graders come together to become "the three." The three who are always there for each other. The three who will protect each other. The three who are as much a part of each other as a limb is. Until they are not. Until they are each just one.In 2017, in their adult lives, Adrien, Étienne, and Nina are estranged. They do not speak to each other. Their once firm plans to escape their town and move to Paris to start a band are long since abandoned. They are very different people than the children and young adults they once were, changed by tragedy and circumstance. Local journalist Virginie, who once knew "the three," watches the fallout as a car pulled from a local lake with a body inside brings back the summer that everything started going so very wrong for each of the friends. Whose body is it? Could it be Étienne's missing girlfriend? And if it is, what will each of "the three" make of it?Perrin has written an intricately plotted novel that is epic in scope. Her characters are complex and well rounded. Both timelines are told in the present tense but only the portions that the mysterious Virginie narrates are from the first person perspective. This gives a slightly larger distance from the story of "the three" than from Virginie's watchful tale, keeping the fabled friendship just that much more out of arm's reach, that much more enigmatic. The two storylines twine around each other, leading the reader to the things that ultimately ruptured the friendship, to the revelation of the body's identity, to just who Virginie is and who she is specifically to "the three," and to the future that each of them face and embrace in the end. There are well crafted, slow measured reveals of the secrets hidden for years that build the story to its end as Perrin poses the question of whether you can ever really fully know another person, or perhaps even yourself. This is a literary mystery within a well written story of friendship, loyalty, betrayal, the past and the present. It is a quiet, long, slow novel, thoroughly engrossing and occasionally surprising. Fans of literary fiction will enjoy it for sure.

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