Robert Goddard (1) (1954–)
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Robert Goddard was a reader of history at Cambridge.
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Reader's Digest Select Editions: Brandenburg • Kill the Messenger • Night Train to Lisbon • Sight Unseen (2006) — Auteur — 9 exemplaren
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- Goddard, Robert Francis
- Geboortedatum
- 1954-11-13
- Geslacht
- male
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- UK
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- Fareham, Hampshire, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- Truro, Cornwall, England, UK
- Opleiding
- University of Cambridge (Peterhouse)
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- novelist
local government official
historical mystery novelist
crime novelist
mystery writer - Korte biografie
- Robert Goddard was born in Fareham, Hampshire, England. He was educated at Price’s School, Fareham, and Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge, where he read History. After qualifying as a teacher, he worked as a local government officer for 10 years before becoming a full-time novelist.
He says, "I was frustrated and disappointed by a lot of contemporary fiction I read in the 1970s and 1980s, so I set out to write a novel that did what I wanted more novels to do: tell a tightly constructed and densely plotted story engrossingly and satisfyingly."
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Chat in Book Discussion : Fault Line by Robert Goddard (augustus 2018)
Chat in Book Discussion : Closed Circle by Robert Goddard (december 2017)
Chat in Book Discussion : Take No Farewell by Robert Goddard (augustus 2017)
Chat in Book Discussion : Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard (februari 2017)
Chat in Book Discussion : Beyond Recall by Robert Goddard (november 2016)
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE MAY - GARDAM & GODDARD in 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (september 2016)
How the discussion works. in Book Discussion : Caught in the Light by Robert Goddard (augustus 2016)
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One of the witnesses to this tragic event was David Umber, a Ph.D student who was waiting at the village pub to keep an appointment with a man called Griffith who claimed he could help Umber with his researches into the letters of “Junius,” the pseudonymous eighteenth century polemicist who was his Ph.D subject. But Griffin failed to show up, and Umber never heard from him again. The two-year-old, Tamsin Hall, was never seen again either. The Hall family fell apart under the strain. Sally Wilkinson, the nanny, wound up living with Umber, whom she had met at the inquiry. But she never recovered from the incident, suffered increasingly from depression, and eventually committed suicide.
In the spring of 2004, retired Chief Inspector George Sharp receives a letter signed “Junius” reproaching him for botching the 1981 investigation. Sharp confronts Umber, whose explanation for being at the scene of the tragedy has always seemed dubious. Obliged to accept Umber’s denial of authorship of the letter, he nonetheless forces him to join in a search for the real culprit — and hence the long-concealed truth about what happened 23 years previously. It is a quest that both will later regret having embarked upon. Too late they come to understand that some mysteries are better left unsolved.… (meer)