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Lädt ... Murder Under Her Skin: A Pentecost and Parker Mystery (2021. Auflage)von Stephen Spotswood (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This mystery was set in the small town of Stoppard, where the circus Willowjean used to be part of is performing. A former friend of hers, Ruby, aka the Incredible Tattooed Woman (or something like that) has been murdered. The descriptions of the circus were interesting, and small town life (church, movie theatre etc) was well portrayed, but I didn't enjoy this one quite as much as the first ( ) This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader as a part of a Quick Takes Catch-up post, emphasizing pithiness, not thoroughness. --- The circus that Will used to be in is in trouble—one of their performers has been killed and another has been arrested. Will's mentor, to be specific. So she and Lillian Pentecost head down south to see what they can do. It's a culture clash (both the South and the circus) for the duo—Will learns the hard way that maybe she's been gone too long—as well as a fish out of water kind of thing for Pentecost. Although not as much as Will and the reader might expect. I enjoyed this one a lot more than the predecessor—it's still a bit too much about Will and her current love interest than it is about Pentecost and the case they're supposed to be working on. The mystery was clever, the character arcs were solid and Will's narrative voice is strong enough to keep the reader/listener locked in. Another enjoyable Pentecost and Parker mystery! In this novel, Lillian and Will have just solved a case of arson, when they receive notice that Will's circus friend, Ruby, has been killed in VA. They head south to solve the case. They find Will's old friend, Val, knife-thrower, has been accused of the murder. As they investigate, they dig more deeply into Ruby's life in the town. They look into the other circus members, and the townspeople to uncover a motive. They find out information, drugs, financial secrets, and other shady dealiings. I absolutely love the wisecracking Will Parker and her employer, Lillian Pentecost. Looking forward to book 3! In the second case narrated by Willowjean Parker, amateur detective apprenticed to the renowned Lillian Pentecost, murder draws the female duo to the traveling circus in which Will once worked. She's been gone for five years and much has changed but Will still feels at home with circus folk and cannot believe her old knife-throwing mentor could be capable of killing the tattooed lady, a long-time member of the Sideshow entertainment. Spotswood conveys the time period mainly through clothing, manners of speech, and other details of daily life rather than historical events. The characters are distinct, diverse, and well-developed (with more likable suspects than in the first of the series) and Will's point of view is laced with her amusing thoughts, some of which she can't keep to herself! Intricately plotted but fast-moving and an all-around pleasure to read. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"READERS OF ANTHONY HOROWITZ AND JACQUELINE WINSPEAR, WITH A DASH OF AGATHA CHRISTIE, step right up! Murder Under Her Skin is a delightfully hardboiled high-wire act starring two daring heroines dead set on justice. Someone's put a blade in the back of the Amazing Tattooed Woman, and Willowjean "Will" Parker's former knife-throwing mentor has been stitched up for the crime. To uncover the truth, Will and her boss, world-famous detective Lillian Pentecost , travel south to the circus where they find a snakepit of old grudges, small-town crime, and secrets worth killing for. New York, 1946: The last time Will Parker let a case get personal, she walked away with a broken face, a bruised ego, and the solemn promise never again to let her heart get in the way of her job. But she called Hart and Halloway's Travelling Circus and Sideshow home for five years, and Ruby Donner, the circus's tattooed ingenue, was her friend. To make matters worse the prime suspect is Valentin Kalishenko, the man who taught Will everything she knows about putting a knife where it needs to go. To uncover the real killer and keep Kalishenko from a date with the electric chair, Will and Ms. Pentecost join the circus in sleepy Stoppard, Virginia, where the locals like their cocktails mild, the past buried, and big-city detectives not at all. The two swiftly find themselves lost in a funhouse of lies as Will begins to realize that her former circus compatriots aren't playing it straight, and that her murdered friend might have been hiding a lot of secrets beneath all that ink. Dodging fistfights, firebombs, and flying lead, Will puts a lot more than her heart on the line in the search of the truth. Can she find it before someone stops her ticker for good?"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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