The Ruinous Sweep, Tim WynneJones
The Ruinous Sweep, Tim WynneJones
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The Ruinous Sweep

Author: Tim Wynne-Jones

Narrator: Tim Wynne-Jones

Unabridged: 9 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 06/26/2018


Synopsis

A rainy night. An empty highway. And no memory. From award-winning author Tim Wynne-Jones comes a riveting murder mystery that will keep readers enthralled until the last page.

On the night Donovan Turner is thrown out of a car on a highway in the middle of nowhere, he can barely remember his own name, let alone the past twenty-four hours. Where is he? Where is his girlfriend, Bee? In an attempt to flag down the next passing car, he startles the driver, causing a fatal accident. With sirens in the distance and the lingering feeling that he's running from something — or someone — Donovan grabs the dead driver's briefcase and flees. Meanwhile, Bee is fighting for Dono's life every bit as much as he is. But when the police show up and hint that he is the prime suspect in a murder, Bee is determined to put together the pieces of what happened and clear his name. With echoes of Dante's Divine Comedy, this harrowing journey through hell and back is a page-turning tale of guilt, retribution, love, and redemption.

About Tim Wynne-Jones

Tim Wynne-Jones is the accomplished author of numerous young adult novels, including The Emperor of Any Place, which was short-listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award; Blink & Caution, winner of the 2012 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award; and The Uninvited, which was short-listed for the Arthur Ellis Award and the Governor General’s Literary Award. In 2012, Tim Wynne-Jones was named an Officer of the Order of Canada for his services to literature. He lives with his wife in Ontario.


Reviews

There's something about Tim Wynne-Jones' writing that doesn't always appeal to people, but for me, it always keeps me on my toes and makes me turn the page. The Uninvited did that for me, and so did this one. I was really into it in the beginning, and towards the end I was too. The book did seem to......more

Goodreads review by Carlos

Did not get the ending , book was doing good till then but why did it have to end like that . I felt like the writer felt forced to finish it a light tone , I don’t agree but otherwise till then the book had been pretty good , you had solid characters and well written main characters, recommend this......more

Goodreads review by Amie

Thank you to Netgalley for this ARC. Ambitious is the main word that comes to mind. Retelling Dante's Inferno is intense and quite a load to take one. Unfortunately, it did not work for me. I gave it 100 pages, and when I was just as confused and uninterested as when I started, I decided to call it q......more