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Lädt ... Rotten Liesvon Charlotte Elkins, Aaron Elkins, Aaron Elkins
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Murder on the golf course during an LGPA tourney. Lee Ofsted for the first time in her life is leading the boards and events as well as murder conspire to knock her out of the running. This disappointment is supposed to be assuaged by solving the murder of a disliked man. I was still bummed out but Ofsted takes life as it comes and of course was a help in the resolution of the case. This was my first introduction to Charlotte and Aaron Elkins combined work. While I enjoyed the book, I prefer the Gideon Oliver series more. There are similarities in the two writer's styles (unsurprisingly), with the love interest between the protagonist and distant lover/spouse, but the settings are very dis-similar. Lee Ofsted is a professional golfer who seems to wander into death among the country club set, and her love interest is a police officer who is going to set up his own private security practice for the golf set. It makes for an interesting set of plot possibilities, and I will read a future book in the series to see how they continue to handle it. All in all, this is a light read, with reasonable dialogue and interesting characters. As good as the first. Quite different setup, with some nice twists - Lee's reaction to her good day and the problem are both well-written - very much in character. ''What's the big attraction in the press tent?'' Boyd is clearly laid out - well, all of them are, they're fully-realized characters with their own quirks. The way the clues come up more or less accidentally in the course of normal events is nicely handled. And I really like how Lee and Graham's relationship is handled - it's neither standing still with them going over the same ground in each book, nor progressing rapidly and without consideration from both of them. Graham gives up a lot, but not everything he finds interesting; Lee believes she's willing to do the same and that she'd be miserable if she did, until she considers the alternative. Nicely handled. Again, good mystery, good story, excellent characters. Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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New Mexico has more than its share of unique and well-publicized attributes, but the one they prefer to play down is the fact that they lead the United States in lightning deaths per capita. Thus, the Cottonwood Creek Country Club of Los Alamos, which is hosting the High Desert Women's Classic golf tournament, takes elaborate measures to ensure that the numbers don't go up during the high-profile tournament. Nevertheless, disaster strikes. On the very first morning, Ted Guthrie, the chairman of the club's board of directors, is killed when a bolt of lightning strikes the umbrella he is holding aloft at the second tee; a shocking, once-in-a-million accident. Or is it? Guthrie just happens to be the most reviled man in town, and for all the best reasons, so that his death is received more with relief than in sorrow, although most would say they would have preferred a less sensational exit. Struggling golfer Lee Ofsted, knocked out of the tournament by an elbow injury and now scrambling to meet her expenses by providing color commentary for the TV coverage, finds herself beginning to wonder--with good reason--just how accidental Guthrie's death was. She takes her fears to the police, but they are understandably unimpressed. How, they ask, do you arrange someone's death via lightning bolt? No, this was simply an unfortunate accident, nothing more. They advise Lee to stick to her job and leave them to theirs. But her suspicions of foul play are heightened when her friend Boyd Marriner, the TV producer, promptly falls dead on consuming a takeout meal of chiles rellenos and black beans. Fortunately, her new love interest, Carmel police lieutenant Graham Sheldon, shows up unannounced. Despite his better judgment he is pulled into her hunt for the cunning killer that lurks behind the scenes. Before they are through, the two of them will come frighteningly close to being one more "unfortunate accident" statistic. Like its predecessor, A Wicked Slice, Rotten Lies is set against a backdrop of high-society country-clubbers, low-society golfers, and the travails of earning a living on the professional golf tour. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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One would think that being struck by lightning could not be murder - think again.
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