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Bezig met laden... Soul Patch (2006)door Reed Farrel Coleman
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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. The Moe Prager series is just consistently good. It's 1989 and Larry MacDonald comes to Moe with a cassette tape of a police interview with a low level drug dealer, Malik. Malik wants to bargain with information about the murder of a major drug dealer, D Rex, in 1972. MacDonald is scared for some reason that Moe can't fathom. When MacD's body is found near one of the Brooklyn garbage dumps, an apparent suicide, Prager can't believe it. He begins investigating and makes some very unusual discoveries about the case and a few discoveries about other things as well. Moe is just one likable guy, that's all there is to it. I wish there was a little more of Y.W. Fenn and Israel Roth, but hey, you can't have everything. Soul Patch is just a good read. So enjoy. Two more to go before I'm caught up and ready for Coleman's latest (and possibly last) Moe Prager mystery due out at the end of 2011. Competent PI novel, with an interesting setup, that gets bogged down in a too-large cast of characters. By the end I didn't much care who did it because there were so many rather flatly drawn characters at work. Moe bugs me. I find him a little too self-congratulatory in his humility, which strikes frequent false notes. How, for instance, does this 40+ guy entice the beautiful young woman? How does he inspire the devotion of so many friends and ex-friends? Why is his wife so delighted when he deigns to pay attention to her? I find him most grating when he's exploring his own psyche, which comes out squeaky clean despite a variety of challenges. Coney Island...a locale with potential, but RC stops short of delving into its hidden personality, describing only its physical environs. All that said, I did get through the book without being too bored. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Moe Prager (book 4) Prijzen
Fiction.
Mystery.
HTML: Winner of the Shamus Award. Nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, and Barry awards. Ex-NYPD cop turned PI and entrepreneur Moe Prager is faced with a gut-wrenching case. The apparent suicide of his old friend and NYPD chief of detectives Larry McDonald forces Moe back onto the decaying Coney Island streets he patrolled when he was in uniform. But now, beneath the boardwalk and behind the rusted and crumbling rides of the midway, he finds a trail of death, betrayal, and corruption reaching back to 1972. This new edition features: New foreword by best-selling crime writer Craig Johnson (Junkyard Dogs) and new afterword by Reed Farrel Coleman. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This is a solid and well-written series and I will continue with it. ( )