Alexander Thorpe
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Powered through this book, great story-telling, contemporary writing about a crime in rural Australia in the 1920's - the set up weaves in multiple insights into the history and culture of the times, not heavy handed but poignant and while it could quite rightly be the beginning of a new detective series; I would love a book 2 to hear what happens next in a number of the characters lives.
Interesting plot with plenty of potential but too many adjectives for me. The author seemed to be attempting to write in a period manner and it just didn't convince, and also the attempts at humour weren't successful (assuming the business with the moustache was meant to be funny?). I came to this as it's set in my neck of the woods but left it wishing that it had had a better editor.
Death Leaves the Station may be slim on pages but the text upon them is an artfully distilled vintage of the mystery genre.
Thorpe’s omniscient third-person narrative is like a dog on a leash, ostensibly restrained but alert to any opportunity to hide delightful literary whimsy in plain sight. The wry humour that crackles just below the surface is as dry as this crime mystery’s sunbaked outback setting, and a delight to read.
But, racial and gender tensions also simmer. And, over the course of the criminal investigation, Thorpe offers modern readers timely reminders of the fickle and arbitrary societal inequities that were commonplace less than a century prior. Continue reading>> https://www.bookloverbookreviews.com/2020/11/death-leaves-the-station-by-alexand...… (meer)
Thorpe’s omniscient third-person narrative is like a dog on a leash, ostensibly restrained but alert to any opportunity to hide delightful literary whimsy in plain sight. The wry humour that crackles just below the surface is as dry as this crime mystery’s sunbaked outback setting, and a delight to read.
But, racial and gender tensions also simmer. And, over the course of the criminal investigation, Thorpe offers modern readers timely reminders of the fickle and arbitrary societal inequities that were commonplace less than a century prior. Continue reading>> https://www.bookloverbookreviews.com/2020/11/death-leaves-the-station-by-alexand...… (meer)
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- Leden
- 19
- Populariteit
- #609,294
- Waardering
- 3.7
- Besprekingen
- 5
- ISBNs
- 5
Some links
Alexander Thorpe interview on Fremantle Press website
Review by Karen Chisholm on austcrimefiction website
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