StartGroepenDiscussieMeerTijdgeest
Doorzoek de site
Onze site gebruikt cookies om diensten te leveren, prestaties te verbeteren, voor analyse en (indien je niet ingelogd bent) voor advertenties. Door LibraryThing te gebruiken erken je dat je onze Servicevoorwaarden en Privacybeleid gelezen en begrepen hebt. Je gebruik van de site en diensten is onderhevig aan dit beleid en deze voorwaarden.

Resultaten uit Google Boeken

Klik op een omslag om naar Google Boeken te gaan.

Bezig met laden...

Terminal (2016)

door Marshall Karp

Reeksen: Lomax and Biggs (5)

LedenBesprekingenPopulariteitGemiddelde beoordelingAanhalingen
2131,048,489 (3.89)1
Terminally ill patients are being recruited to commit murder before they die. LAPD detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs are on their most challenging case so far.
Bezig met laden...

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.

» Zie ook 1 vermelding

Toon 3 van 3
This was a quick read, with the usual dose of humor surrounding a serious subject of modern drug development and distribution. It isn't really a police procedural; the police are more the followers than the pursuers. I suspect that you, as did I, will guess who is behind the murders long before it is revealed to Mike Lomax.

Although it isn't necessary to read the series in order, I think that you can appreciate this installment more if you have read some of the previous four books. I hope this isn't the last of the series.

Comic mysteries are a difficult form of literature to carry off successfully, and Karp is very good at it. These are the flip side of Westlake's Dortmunder series or Hallinan's Junior Bender series, which feature good-natured criminals. ( )
  MidwestGeek | Dec 29, 2017 |
It's been a long six years since the last Lomax and Biggs mystery, and I have to admit to doing a little happy dance when I discovered the existence of Terminal. Although it's understandable that Marshall Karp would want to partner with James Patterson in the highly successful NYPD Red series, he's created two police detectives that I just can't get enough of.

Karp always seems to come up with an ingenious mystery. In Terminal, we know the identity of the killers and why they've signed up as hit men, but we still need to know who's behind it all and why this person wants it done. Karp skillfully joins the personal to the professional in such a way that readers feel invested in the story; they're not just armchair sleuths trying to solve the crime before the heroes do. Mike Lomax not only has Sophie in his life at this time, the terminally ill killers remind him painfully of his wife who lost her own battle with cancer. He's also worried about the extra blood work his doctor has insisted upon. All this makes him a bit crankier than longtime fans have ever seen him. Did it bother me? Not in the slightest. These things would make most humans a bit irritable.

Karp sprinkles his character fairy dust not only on Lomax and Biggs, but on those terminally ill killers as well. I felt real empathy for them-- and I also wondered what I would do if faced with identical circumstances.

When you read one of Marshall Karp's Lomax and Biggs mysteries, you're going to get a puzzler of a crime, a fast pace, laugh-out-loud humor, and some wonderfully drawn characters that stick in your mind long after you've finished reading the books. Terminal is an excellent addition to the series, but I do have one request of the author:

Please don't make me wait another six years before your next Lomax and Biggs book! ( )
  cathyskye | Jun 3, 2016 |
I am so happy that Marshall Karp has written a new Lomax & Biggs book, Rabbit Factory is one of my favorite books of all time. Now getting to the story, Lomax & Biggs get dragged into a seeming conspiracy during Lomax’s colonoscopy, which should give you a hint on the humor of the books. Marshall brings back all the favorite characters from the past books and comes up with a very satisfying ending. It has been far too long since we have had a tour with our old friends but it was well worth the wait.

Free review copy. ( )
  mrmapcase | May 20, 2016 |
Toon 3 van 3
geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe

Onderdeel van de reeks(en)

Je moet ingelogd zijn om Algemene Kennis te mogen bewerken.
Voor meer hulp zie de helppagina Algemene Kennis .
Gangbare titel
Oorspronkelijke titel
Alternatieve titels
Oorspronkelijk jaar van uitgave
Mensen/Personages
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis. Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Belangrijke plaatsen
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis. Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Belangrijke gebeurtenissen
Verwante films
Motto
Opdracht
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis. Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
An Overly Long, Possibly Overwritten Dedication

This book is dedicated with love and gratitude to every Lomax and Biggs fan on the planet. You may be a few thousand whackos short of a cult following, but you are annoyingly, wonderfully, and magically persistent.

After Cut, Paste, Kill was published in 2010, you waited for Lomax and Biggs 5. But the publishing business is a not-too-subtle balance of art and commerce, and commerce almost always kicks art's ass.

So like Willie Sutton, my career told me to go where the money was. I co-authored five best sellers with James Patterson, and while most of you understood, you still wanted me to find time for Lomax and Biggs. And you were not shy in your communication. On Facebook, on Twitter, on Goodreads, and of course, email. Lots and lots of email. Sometimes you were gentle. Please Marshall... But other times you were just a bunch of book junkies jonesing for your next Lomax and Biggs fix.

I knew it would take years, but I couldn't say no. And when I finally started writing this book, I realized I missed Mike Lomax, Terry Biggs, Big Jim, Diana, Muller, and Kilcullen as much as you did. I also wanted to to develop the newest character, Sophie Tan, the seven-year-old who was left in Mike and Diana's care at the end of Cut, Paste, Kill. In Terminal, Sophie comes into her own—a wise-beyond-her-years force to be reckoned with. I must admit, I've fallen in love with this kid, and hope you will too

Terminal has been a labor of love, and when the time came to think of a dedication, I didn't have to think twice. I couldn't name names. The list would go on for pages. And I knew I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I left one out.

But you know who you are. More Important, I know who you are.

Thank You.
Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis. Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The Prius idled in total silence.
Citaten
Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis. Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Ontwarringsbericht
Uitgevers redacteuren
Auteur van flaptekst/aanprijzing
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis. Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Oorspronkelijke taal
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis. Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Gangbare DDC/MDS
Canonieke LCC

Verwijzingen naar dit werk in externe bronnen.

Wikipedia in het Engels

Geen

Terminally ill patients are being recruited to commit murder before they die. LAPD detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs are on their most challenging case so far.

Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden.

Boekbeschrijving
Haiku samenvatting

Actuele discussies

Geen

Populaire omslagen

Snelkoppelingen

Waardering

Gemiddelde: (3.89)
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3 3
3.5
4 4
4.5
5 2

Ben jij dit?

Word een LibraryThing Auteur.

 

Over | Contact | LibraryThing.com | Privacy/Voorwaarden | Help/Veelgestelde vragen | Blog | Winkel | APIs | TinyCat | Nagelaten Bibliotheken | Vroege Recensenten | Algemene kennis | 202,660,813 boeken! | Bovenbalk: Altijd zichtbaar