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Bezig met laden... Down Cemetery Road (2003)door Mick Herron
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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'm a great fan of the author's Slough House series, which I've read and will probably reread the first few now that I know the characters - it's that good. My favorite character in that series is Jackson Lamb, a thoroughly unlikable hero who insults people all the time with comments like "Are you still here?" So, I was happy to come across a similar character in this book, although even less likeable than Jackson Lamb. His name was "C". He seemed to be in charge of a spook department that cleaned up after operations that needed to not have happened, or people that needed to be erased. As you can imagine, he had some pretty bad people working for him, people that enjoyed the job. When he was getting a status update from an underling, we are treated to this exchange: ‘Fuck off. Now, what happened to Mr Trafford? He been secured?’ Or, after summarizing a botched-up job that was particularly messy, he says: 'Did I miss anything important?’ If you read any of the Slough House series, I'm sure you'd recognize that style immediately. The story itself was a bit darker than Slough House, perhaps. I believe it was written before Slough House. But it was a good story, with good characters, and some unlikely heroes, who happened to be women. My only complaint was that it was too short. I felt there was more that I wanted to know, but it didn't really leave any loose ends, but it could have wrapped things up a little more. I'm hoping the rest of the series is as good or better than this one. I plan to find out soon. Mick Herron’s 1st novel is a really good, bordering on great one, with a plot that sucks you in but bogs down a bit toward the end. The writing is excellent, the dialogue solid (though a bit too glib in some highly pressurized situations), and the characters top notch, once their actual roles in the proceedings are exposed. The plot is complicated: a house in a middle class London neighborhood explodes, killing the female owner and a male visitor. A young child survives. A female neighbor with no real connection to the folks in the exploded house takes an interest in the welfare of the surviving child, only to discover she’s disappeared. Soon, we learn that it wasn’t a gas leak that led to the house’s demise, but something way more sinister. Some shadowy Brit intelligence guys, jerk bankers, and a mild mannered private dick are thrown in the mix, and the results aren’t pretty. What began as a seemingly solvable missing kid case, which I only took on due to my previous experience with other Herron’s novels, morphed into more of a spy novel with lots of memorable characters and a fairly satisfying conclusion. Loved the writing and characters, the pace was a bit slow at times, but overall it’s a great read. I couldn't get into this at all, it is supposed to be a thriller but the first part I read was concerned with a dysfunctional dinner party, which whilst amusing at times didn't have any thrills or pace to it. I couldn't tell if there was a plot as such, it was just a bunch of boring people living in Oxford being rude to each other. Needless to say I read no more than 10% before giving up. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Zoe Boehm (1)
"CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron's debut novel introduces Sarah Tucker, whose search for a missing child unravels a murderous conspiracy. When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah Tucker--a young married woman, bored and unhappy with domestic life--becomes obsessed with finding her. Accustomed to dull chores in a childless household and hosting her husband's wearisome business clients for dinner, Sarah suddenly finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew, as her investigation reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead. What begins in a peaceful neighborhood reaches its climax on a remote, unwelcoming Scottish island as the search puts Sarah in league with a man who finds himself being hunted down by murderous official forces"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This is the start of a new series featuring Zoe Boehm, though with eighty percent of the story read the main mystery concerned our heroine, who up to this point featured in less than a page of the book, but made up for it in the rest. Clever descriptive intelligent with plenty of surprises along the way. Witty and at times laugh out loud funny, beautifully drawn characters engaging page turner at times riveting and unputdownable mystery.
Completely recommended. ( )