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Bezig met laden... Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach (2012)door Colin Cotterill
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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.  zmagic69 | Mar 31, 2023 |    ) JudyGibson | Jan 26, 2023 |  ) Seafox | Jul 24, 2019 | Jimm finds a man's head on the beach and the clean-up-crew are fierce mean men.... who don't want anyone looking into his death...... Then there is the girl & her mother who happen upon the resort & insist on staying there (hiding something) who are not who they say they are. So it goes on, and I had to stop @ page 132..... To put it nicely, this was so very tedious. There was one part that was very objectionable: "The hounds were forty meters from the debris. They were excited. When Gogo comes across something that confuses her, she whimpers and does a sort of canine Native-American war dance." What sort of insensitive culturally deficient gormless prat writes something like that? Oh yeah: "Born in London, Colin Cotterill has worked as a teacher in Israel, Australia, the United States and japan before he started training teachers in Thailand........" That about says it all, an erudite European educated male, writing in as a female persona he has never personally been. (  ) Auntie-Nanuuq | Jan 18, 2016 | ) cygnet81 | Jan 17, 2016 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Fiction.
Mystery.
Jimm Juree, who was well on her way to becoming the primary crime reporter for the major daily newspaper in Chiang Mai, is less than thrilled to have lost her job and relocated to a place where nothing ever happens. When she learns that a head has washed up on the beach, she greets the news with mixed emotions. It's tragic, of course, but this could be the sort of sensational murder that would get her a byline in a major daily-if she still worked for one. Instead, all she can do is find out who was murdered and why.With her former cop grandfather as back up, she sets out to discover how the poor fellow ended up where he did-and why. On their journey, with the rest of their disjointed family in tow, they uncover gruesome tales of piracy and slavery, violence and murder in the Gulf of Thailand. Are the authorities uninterested because they're involved, or because the victims aren't Thai? Whatever the reason, Jimm and her team are going it alone and their lives are under threat. And who exactly are those two elegant women in cabin three and why has the engine number of their car been filed away? Airport hostages and hand grenades, monkeys and naked policemen-once more the sublime and the ridiculous clash at the Gulf Bay Lovely Resort and Restaurant. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.54)
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It wanders, its boring, its not terribly funny, and I constantly felt like I was not part of some inside joke.
The characters are not that interesting, and the story drags on forever.
I think the author got bored writing it, too. (