Dave Warner
Auteur van City of Light
Over de Auteur
Dave Warner is an author, screenwriter and musician from Australian, born in 1953. City of Light was his first novel published in 1995. He has written seven more novels and five nonfiction books. He was the winner of the 2016 Ned Kelly Awards best novel category for Before It Breaks, given by the toon meer Australian Crime Writers Association. He was the leader of the band Dave Warner from the Suburbs. They released albums in the 1970s and 1980s. He was awarded the living treasures award 2015 from the Western Australian state government. The award is given to `highly regarded and skilled' career artists who have worked within or created work about Western Australia, passed on their knowledge to other artists, and demonstrated a commitment or contribution to the Western Australian arts sector. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Warner, David Robert
- Geboortedatum
- 1953
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Australia
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- Australia
- Geboorteplaats
- Bicton, Western Australia, Australia
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 25
- Leden
- 237
- Populariteit
- #95,614
- Waardering
- 3.5
- Besprekingen
- 23
- ISBNs
- 90
- Talen
- 2
When a local German immigrant is found murdered in a nearby waterhole, Dan is forced to manage a homicide investigation using the meagre resources available to him. The plot thickens quickly, with apparent involvement of local bikies and some drug-running. Dan is also trying to chase down the victim's German connections, after he is revealed to be a former policeman. As the situation becomes more entangled and progress more difficult, Dan gets to feel the pressure of having his former city mates take away his investigation.
While all this is going on Dan is making feeble attempts to patch things up with his ex-wife and preserve his father-daughter relationship.
This book is a middling crime drama that lacks a real punch in the ending and is a bit too predictable in its denouement. Dan's personal conflicts, a necessary of any modern fictional detective character in my opinion, are pretty mundane and seem more bolted onto the plot, rather than a driver of it. I prefer my fictional detectives to be more damaged and angsty than this.… (meer)