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Bezig met laden... Upon a Dark Night: Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation Series, Book 5 (origineel 1997; editie 2017)door Peter Lovesey (Auteur), Michael Healy (Verteller)
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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. Excellent mystery re three unrelated murders, brilliant plot lines ( ) Peter Lovesey has sustained a long and celebrated career through well-crafted detective stories in which he has managed to combine watertight plotting with colourful characters and a deft lightness of touch. He doesn't attempt to offer the gritty realism of Rankin or McDermid, but he also avoids falling for the cloying cosiness that bedevils so much of the crime genre. Having written two highly successful series of light-hearted novels set in nineteenth century London, one sequence featuring Sergeant Cribb, a heavily moustached lugubrious Detective, and another in which obscure mysteries were resolved through the wit and willpower of "Bertie" (eldest son of Queen Victoria and subsequently King Edward VII), he decided to take on a more contemporary context in the early 1990s. Hi new character, inroduced in "The Last Detective" was Peter Diamond, querulous Superintendent of the Murder Quad in Bath, and he featured with great aplomb in subsequent outings including "Diamond Solitaire" and the excellent "Bloodhounds" which poked gentle fun at the whole mystery novel genre and its often too enthusiastic adherents. "Upon a Dark Night" opens with Diamond, as querulous as ever, concerned that he might be a victim of his own success and that the stress of struggling to find sufficiently taxing work to fill his days has contributed to a bout of hypertension. As even the least sensitive reader can foretell, such hubris is merely the tempting of providence, and all at once he finds himself with three cases to investigate - an apparent suicide of an elderly farmer, the mysterious dumping of a woman with complete amnesia at one of the city's hospitals, and the fatal fall from the roof of the glorious Regency Crescent of a young German woman.. This Diamond is certainly flawed - he is rude, sexist and frequently impatient, particularly towards his colleagues (his constant disdain towards Chief Inspector Wigfull are particularly enjoyable), but he is also capable of extraordinary acts of empathy. This novel doesn't quite match up to Lovesey at his absolute best (for which try "Bloodhounds", "The Vault" or "The Circle") but I certainly enjoyed it. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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A young woman is dumped, injured, and unconscious, in a private hospital's parking lot. She is an amnesiac with no memory prior to her discovery by hospital personnel. Detective Inspector Peter Diamond of the Bath homicide squad is unwilling to become involved. He has other, more important cases to solve. A woman has plunged to her death from the roof of a local landmark while half the young people of Bath partied below, and an elderly farmer has shot himself. Are these apparent suicides what they seem, or are there sinister forces at work? And might the amnesiac woman hold the key to both cases? Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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