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Bezig met laden... Report for Murder (1987)door Val McDermid
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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. This is one of Val McDermid's first books and as such, it's not bad. Not as great as her current novels are, but not bad. A prestigious girls school might have to close because a developer wants the land. The school sponsors a benefit weekend with a craft fair and concert. Lorna Smith-Couper, a noted cellist and school graduate is to perform. Lindsay Gordon, a friend of one of the school's teachers, Paddy Callahan, has been asked to cover the event for the publication. Before Lorna can perform, however, she is brutally murdered, and Paddy is arrested. The fact that many people had opportunity and motive seems to make no difference. The school's headmaster asked Lindsay and noted novelist Cordelia Brown, another of Paddy's friends and also a graduate, to look into the murder, in hopes of freeing Paddy. Can they save Paddy? The book has a good plot and lots of action. So, if you're interested in McDermid's early works, put this on the list. Die freischaffende Journalistin Lindsay Gordon ist knapp bei Kasse. Warum sonst würde sie über eine Spendengala an einer öffentlichen Mädchenschule berichten? Doch als die Hauptattraktion Minuten vor ihrem Auftritt auf der Bühne mit ihrem eigenen Cello erdrosselt aufgefunden wird, findet sich Lindsay Gordon bei der Untersuchung eines bösartigen Mordes wieder. Wer hätte Lorna Smith-Cooper tot sehen wollen? Wer hatte den Schlüssel zu dem verschlossenen Raum, in dem ihre Leiche gefunden wurde? Und wer könnte genau zur richtigen Zeit aus dem Flur geschlüpft sein, um dieses kaltblütige und kaltblütige Verbrechen zu begehen? In her debut novel, Val McDermid puts a distinctly lesbian spin on a pair of well-tried mystery formulas: the "country house" murder associated with Agatha Christie, and the "locked-room" puzzles of John Dickson Carr. This one is set in a girls' boarding school in the Derbyshire moors. Clearly a formative work, but one which shows early promise of things to come. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Lindsay Gordon, self-proclaimed cynical socialist lesbian feminist journalist is less than overjoyed at the prospect of spending a weekend at a posh girls' boarding school. Tensions are running high over the school's financial problems; the fact that school alumna and reknowned musician Lorna Smith-Couper, will return to the school to perform at a benefit concert only exacerbates anxieties. When Smith-Couper is found strangled with her own cello string right before the concert, Lindsay and Cordelia find their new relationship tested in unique ways as they seek to find the murderer among a long list of suspects. ...a clever mystery, a good read, and a heroine who is my kind of woman: Lindsay Gordon is smart, tenacious, daring, lusty, loyal, and class-conscious to the bone --Barbara Neely, author of the Blanche White series. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Posted a longer review on my blog http://wildmoobooks.blogspot.com/2012/02/report-for-murder-by-val-mcdermid.html ( )