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Lädt ... Tödlicher Abschied (2004)von Michael Koryta
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Cuando aparece el cadáver del investigador privado Wayne Weston en su casa en lo que parece ser un suicidio, y su mujer y su hija de cinco años desaparecen sin dejar rastro, Lincoln Perry y su compañero son contratados por el padre de Weston para limpiar el nombre de su hijo. Descubrirán rápidamente que el caso tiene raíces más profundas y oscuras de lo que pretende la prensa y el FBI: ciertos rumores de extorsión y de deudas en las apuestas, extraños vínculos profesionales con el magnate de la zona y un grupo de rusos conectados con el crimen. I saw Michael Koryta at the Decatur Book Festival earlier this year, he made a good impression and I decided to give one of his novels a try. Best place to start is always this beginning. This is his first book and also the first book int he Lincoln Perry series. I liked it. He did a talk with Michael Connelly so I was expecting the book to be a bit like the Harry Bosch novels and it was to a point. I think these were a bit grittier and more "Dragnet" style than Harry Bosch is. I thought the mystery was really good and it had a couple of twists in it that I didn't expect it. Scott Brick did a decent job narrating the book. He's not my favorite narrator but he's not bad. If you're fan of procedural crime novels with a bit of a dark side, I recommend this series. I will definitely be reading more Koryta in the future. I didn't like it as much as I had expected to - given its reviews and its genre. There was too much weak dialogue and the main character going here and there and then there and here...just to have yet another dialogue. I really didn't like how the "romantic" component was done - it wasn't really a romantic component, but Perry still "sized" up a woman, and acted out on an attraction to her when it was completely unrealistic that she would be interested (only logical reason she would show interest in him would be because she was a bad guy), or that he would be interested in her since he, supposedly, is emotionally attached to another female character. Or he's following his genitalia... in either case it didn't fit his character, or the story line. A crime fiction series based in Cleveland? Here it is...the first book in a series based on two former Cleveland cops, relatively new in the PI business. One young, one old. It was a fast well written story. I liked the setting and the characters. The age-related gaffe: the way Kortya depicts the mother-daughter relationship--at 21 he knows girls--the relationship between mother and daughter is intense but pretty shallow. All in all, a professional first novel effort. I'll go on to read others in the series. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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This is the remarkable debut mystery from the award-winning author of the 2003 St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America Prize for Best First Private Eye Novel. Investigator Wayne Weston is found dead of an apparent suicide in his home in an upscale Cleveland suburb, and his wife and six-year-old daughter are missing. Weston's father insists that private investigators Lincoln Perry and Joe Pritchard take the case to exonerate his son and find his granddaughter and daughter-in-law. As they begin to work, they discover there is much more to the situation than has been described in the prevalent media reports. There are rumors of gambling debts and extortion, and a group of Russians with ties to organized crime who don't appreciate being investigated--a point they make clear with baseball bats. With some assistance from newspaper reporter Amy Ambrose, Perry and Pritchard believe they are making swift progress. But then they are warned off the investigation by a millionaire real estate tycoon and the FBI. Just when they feel they are closing in on a possible source of answers, another murder forces them to change direction in the case. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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