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Bezig met laden... Nerds Who Kill (2006)door Mark Richard Zubro
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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.  fuzzipueo | Apr 24, 2022 |   ritaer | Jul 12, 2021 | Entertaining procedural, although slightly confusing in that Paul's sons seem to be a year younger than in the previous book. (  ) Robertgreaves | Nov 20, 2016 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Paul Turner is a widowed father of two teenaged boys, one of whom has spina bifida, rapidly approaching middle age, and used to dealing gracefully with all the challenges these things entail. Turner, however, is slightly different from others in his situation - he's openly gay and a homicide detective for the Chicago Police Department. Despite everything, his personal and family life is relatively placid. Until right now. This time, his life couldn't possibly get more complex and problematic: there's a Science Fiction and Media convention in Chicago this weekend - one of the world's largest such gathering - and his sons are both attending. In full costume. And Paul Turner, like any good father, is going with them. If the prospect of that weren't bad enough, one of the convention's guests - one of the field's most successful fantasy writers - is found murdered, mostly likely by the broadsword found rammed through the corpse's chest. In most circumstances, a broadsword would be a unique murder weapon, but this time there are hundreds of attendees carrying similar ones as part of their costumes. Including his own son. That one gruesome murder is just the beginning - the dead bodies amidst the revelers are starting to pile up - and Turner must sort through a confusing array of suspects in short order if he's to find the killer in time. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.41)
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Complaints first and foremost: Why do mystery authors feel they have to dump on SF/F cons? Don't they have mystery cons they can dump on? They never have anything nice to say about the people who attend cons and when they do, it's almost always a back-handed complement. Yes, I'm pointing at the author of [bc:Bimbos of the Death Sun|471512|Bimbos of the Death Sun (Jay Omega, #1)|Sharyn McCrumb|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320448175s/471512.jpg|459808] too.
And, the only thing on the cover that has anything to do with the plot is the sword by the way.
So, the bulk of this story takes place over the course of a Saturday at a SF/F convention with a large attendee list, including authors, movie makers, wannabees, not-quite-there-yets, and any number of people in between as well as the malcontents who have (possibly legitimate) complaints against a certain author who ends up dead shortly after the con starts. Unfortunately, the method of complaint causes our police detectives, Paul Turner and Buck Fenwick, no end of headaches and, for Paul, anxiety - since his kids are drawn in to the investigation, if only peripherally.
The set up isn't bad for the story and the culprit(s), but the story itself plods as we, and our two detectives, are jerked from one crime scene to another and getting more confused in the process. A competent, if not the best, story by Zubro. Sigh. (