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Bezig met laden... A Late Phoenix (1970)door Catherine Aird
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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. I have been reading the Inspector Sloan books by Catherine Aird on and off for the past few years. I cannot say I dislike them. However, there are certain portions in all of these books that seem superfluous. At times, characters talk on and on about things that have nothing to do with anything. I guess, there was a word limit that Aird had to reach in order for the book to be publishable. This is more apparent in A Late Phoenix than the previous books. The plot began promisingly. I love books dealing with cold cases. However, the frequency with which the narrative went off the rails put me off. Promising premise, wish it had been better written. The motive meant everything in this one. The plotting was not so much intricate as detailed. The writing was rather good, and I laughed aloud at some discussions of the bombing during the war. The reading was excellent, with a bunch of snotty, drawling British accents. The doctor's secretary was by far the most amusing. The man with the bronchitis, got from being gassed during WWI, coughed and weezed horrifically. Mysetry writers often had a lot of trouble with contemporary color, in this case flower-power hippies. The diatribes by Sloan's superior are just nutty, but Sloan's ruminations are also an artifact of their time. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan is called on to solve the coldest of cases in this thriller from CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird Berebury, England, did not have an easy go of it during the Second World War. This quaint Victorian town was destroyed when the Nazis dropped bomb after bomb on its perfect gardens and neat hedges. After three decades of disarray, the town council has finally begun reconstructing what's left. All throughout Berebury, the sounds of hammers and saws drone on. But on this particular day, the noise stops. In the crater of a bomb site, a skeleton has been found. While its presence there isn't unusual-hundreds died in bombing raids throughout England-the manner in which the pregnant girl met her end is sinister enough that Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan and his assistant, Detective Constable Crosby, are called to the scene. The cause of death, it seems, was not the blast, but a bullet to the spine. Inspector Sloan is the best there is when it comes to cracking the most complex cases. But can he piece together a murder that's been buried for more than a quarter century? Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Catherine Aird specialises in tangled plots, many red herrings, and this novel is no exception.
By the end, the place is littered with bodies including a death previously thought to be a suicide. ( )