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Bezig met laden... All Mortal Flesh (2006)door Julia Spencer-Fleming
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. SPOILERS This has all of the things I don't like about the rest of the series times ten. First, it's a romance novel. I started skimming through the chapters that had nothing to do with the mystery plot and if you do that, it's almost a short story. Second, the inappropriateness of how both Clare and Russ act in terms of their professions gets really grating. In this book, it's ridiculous that a police officer would lead the investigation into the murder of his wife, but all the "good" people in the book are OUTRAGED that anyone would dare imply that someone UNRELATED TO THE VICTIM come lead the investigation. The book treats the outside investigator like she's just as much of a villain as the murderer. Any good police officer/person/grieving husband would immediately excuse themselves due to conflict of interest, because you would never be able to actually prosecute someone for a crime if the victim's husband was in charge of collecting all the evidence. And one of the police officers is supposed to be terrible for wanting to investigate Clare. She's friends with the police chief, so anyone who would want to investigate her is a monster, like the police are supposed to have a list of people who are not to be investigated no matter what because they're really nice and it would be rude. In all the books, having your priest be really close to the chief of police is really problematic - but at least the books acknowledge that, unlike how they treat the idea that a police officer would lead the investigation into his wife's murder. Third, it's really melodramatic and self-serious. It's like someone made a novelization of a soap opera. There doesn't have to be a car crash in every book. A marriage can just end, there doesn't have to be a big reveal about adultery with the husband's co-worker. Other books contain even more car crashes, small town police officers planting drugs on people, police officers having secret pasts in pornography, main characters becoming drug addicts (deployments are hard but they don't turn every single veteran into a drug addict with post-traumatic stress disorder), child pornography ... it's lurid. I was just excited because the first book got so many awards, including the Agatha Award - I expected the series to be more mysterious. I think the earlier books are better (didn't read Fountain Filled With Blood but did read the other three). I do like the setting (although we do have summer in all parts of Upstate New York, it's not actually Antarctica). But I hate this one and the ones that I've read that come after. Others who read the copy of All Mortal Flesh I borrowed from the Greece Public Library said; "twists and turns, good plot but a little gory", "good page turner all the , great characters" , good story but disappointed with the ending" , real stunner" and five other comments. Here is another mystery series featuring a small town Episcopal Priest who solves mysteries. A very gripping story but I am not sure if I want to take on another series of mysteries. This one is the fourth in the series it may have been a mistake to read this one first but it was at the library. Clare is a former Army helicopter pilot and new clergyperson. She has become emotionally involved with the married police chief and the chief's wife has kicked him out of the house. Bodies begin to show up, some of them human. Some of this story is believable and some a bit far fetched. The Church life parts are fairly true to life and the author who is not clergy gets much of the vocabulary right. I may read the first in the series before I decide if want want to pursue the rest of Julia Spencer-Fleming's books. As impressed as I am with the ability of writers of series mysteries to repeatedly come up with clever and unique plots for their characters, I am particularly impressed with the likes of Faye Kellerman and Julia Spencer-Fleming, authors who time and again must invent ways to involve a second main character, someone not a professional crime solver, in the mystery. And I am not talking about just a Dr. Watson-like sidekick Kellerman's books feature Los Angeles Police Lt. Peter Decker, yet deeply involved in solving each mystery is his wife, Rina Lazarus. How likely is this to happen even once in real life? Yet each time Kellerman makes it seem at least plausible. Spencer-Fleming may have an even more challenging task, for she writes about Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne and Clare Ferguson, the local Episcopal priest. The two are more than friends, not yet not quite lovers. Yet somehow whenever the Millers Kill, N.Y., police chief investigates a murder case, she is right there in the middle of it. Her 2006 book “All Mortal Flesh” (the title is taken from a line in a hymn) has Van Alystyne's estranged wife as the murder victim. She had kicked her husband out of the house because of his relationship with Clare, and now her mutilated body is found in their kitchen. As if this isn't bad enough, both of our heroes has a young woman making a pest of herself. In Clare's case, because of the scandal caused by her relationship with the chief, she has been assigned a deacon, supposedly to assist her, but really to keep an eye on her. Meanwhile, because the chief's wife is the murder victim, he becomes the prime suspect, and an ambitious young investigator from the state comes to town to take over the case, relieving Russ of his gun and badge. Clare herself becomes a secondary suspect. Despite these restraints, the pair, mostly acting independently, manage to solve the crime. This makes exciting reading, and the pages fly by so quickly one has little time to wonder how likely all this might be in the real world. I call that impressive plotting.
The fifth installment of this underrated series tops even the pyrotechnics of To Darkness and to Death (2005)—even as it leaves you wondering whether it’ll be the last we’ll hear of Russ and Clare. The high-stakes plot evolves seamlessly with totally unexpected twists and turns, culminating in a climax that surpasses the drama of previous outings. Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Is opgenomen inPrijzen
Fiction.
Thriller.
HTML: One horrible murder. Two people destined for love or tragedy. Emotions explode in the novel Julia Spencer-Fleming's readers have been clamoring for. Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne's first encounter with Clare Fergusson was in the hospital emergency room on a freezing December night. A newborn infant had been abandoned on the town's Episcopal church steps. If Russ had known that the church had a new priest, he certainly would never have guessed that it would be a woman. Not a woman like Clare. That night in the hospital was the beginning of an attraction so fierce, so forbidden, that the only thing that could keep them safe from compromising their every belief was distanceâ??but in a small town like Millers Kill, distance is hard to find. Russ Van Alstyne figures his wife kicking him out of their house is nobody's business but his ownâ??until a neighbor pays a friendly visit to Linda Van Alstyne Âand finds the woman's body, gruesomely butchered, on the kitchen floor. To the state police, it's an open-and-shut case of a disaffected husband, silencing first his wife, then the murder investigation he controls. To the townspeople, it's proof that the whispered gossip about the police chief and the priest was true. To the powers that be in the church hierarchy, it's a chance to control their wayward cleric once and for all. Obsession. Lies. Nothing is as it seems in Millers Kill, where betrayal twists old friendships and evil waits inside quaint white clapboard farmhous Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Russ was kicked out of the house when his wife, Linda, heard from him about the emotional affair. So, he was living with his mother, and Linda's body was found. The police and town think that Russ killed her. Then, more information is found, including the mystery of the horrible deaths of pets in the town. Mother Nature adds snow storms and treacherous roads, and the separate investigations done by Russ, Claire, a town journalist, and Linda's sister uncover chilling details.
The closer I got to the end of the story, the questions begging for answers piled up and I had to keep reading whenever I could grab my book! ( )