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Lädt ... Born Guilty (1995)von Reginald Hill
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. The dust cover describes Joe Sixsmith as "quite possibly Britain's only black, balding, middle-aged, laid-off lathe operator-turned-private-eye." He is part of a choir and after rehearsal one night he discovers a body in a box in a graveyard. He also is trying to discover if a young woman's grandfather is a Nazi war criminal I enjoyed every minute of reading this. Joe Sixsmith is a great character, and the combination of humour and action-packed, intelligent mystery, along with extremely likeable and well-drawn characters, made this an absolute joy. I particularly liked Joe's relationship with Whitey - his imagined conversations with the cat were hilarious. Hurrah for Reginald Hill! It took me a while to get into this. I couldn't really remember what the first in this series was like and wasn't quite sure what to make of this for a while. In the end I found it gripping and very entertaining.
The good thing about keeping track of the books you read is that you can look back and see what you thought about the first in the series.
it's a bit of a farce, a bit of a caper, a lot of a funny crime novel and mainly just very enjoyable to read.This one never really struck me as farce or caper, it was more in the "quite amusing" vein, and I really shouldn't leave it 3.5 years before reading the next one! Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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'Few writers in the genre today have Hill's gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace' Donna Leon, Sunday Times Hurrying out of St Monkey's church one day, Joe Sixsmith stumbles across a boy's corpse in a cardboard box and into more trouble than he's ever known. His casebook is full to bursting: retired colonial Mrs C. demands to know how the boy got there; Gallie, the Mutant from Outer Space, urges him to find the stranger nosing into her granddad's past; while Butcher, that briefest of briefs, is hellbent on digging the dirt on a deputy head's out-of-school activities. Joe threads his way through the mean streets of Luton, fighting off cops, druggies and the matchmaking machinations of his Auntie Mirabelle. But there's little joy to be found in the truth: that kids grow up fast, and that even the luckiest ones are born guilty. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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