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Ladataan... Beyond Reach (2010)Tekijä: Graham Hurley
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. I like DI Joe Faraday - a lot. He comes over as real, fallible, likeable and whilst good at his job, as exhausted and dispirited as most of us are when things simply get too much. As ever, a good story, well told, with a cast of believable characters. ( ) The language is odd. There are odd words like 'binos' and there is quite a lot of clunky explanation. Too much about birds and I missed his deaf son as he was absent now living in London. I've only read Turnstone before this which was the first in the series and I think it was the deaf angle that most appealed. Perhaps because I was looking for that deaf angle I began to wonder if Graham Hurley was translating from sign language..... Anyway there were some really good things about the book - the main characters are built up really well although I wish I had not guessed the last outcome quite so early as it meant I did not read the last chapters with proper attention. This was another good episode from the DI Joe Faraday series. The story takes place in Portsmouth and its surrounding area. Faraday has to rewind cold cases and try to solve them. Soon he realizes that a recent murder is linked to one of these old cases. The deeper he digs the more connections he can draw between the cold falls. In part, he is happy about it, but in part, he also has conscience whether he does the right thing. Of course, his nemesis the drug baron Bazza Mackenzie and the ex-cop Paul Winter also play an important role again. I love how Graham Hurley can write an exciting thriller by bringing together different loose ends into a whole. The language is odd. There are odd words like 'binos' and there is quite a lot of clunky explanation. Too much about birds and I missed his deaf son as he was absent now living in London. I've only read Turnstone before this which was the first in the series and I think it was the deaf angle that most appealed. Perhaps because I was looking for that deaf angle I began to wonder if Graham Hurley was translating from sign language..... Anyway there were some really good things about the book - the main characters are built up really well although I wish I had not guessed the last outcome quite so early as it meant I did not read the last chapters with proper attention. Another excellent Faraday/Winter double bill: well-observed as ever. Though Portsmouth looms large and as in-your-face as usual, the surrounding area is all part of the wider tapestry, as well as points much further away. Good subject matter, including a theme around the frustrations evoked by 'broken Britain' - a phrase the current government seem to have quietly dropped as they come to the realisation that they don't have a quick fix. One teeny, anorakish detail gripe. Even a couple of years ago, the Ford Escort was ten years out of production, hence its days either as police car or ne'er-do-well's ride of choice are long gone. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Kuuluu näihin sarjoihinDI Joe Faraday (10)
A brutal hit and run killing opens the path to another 25-year-old crime in the acclaimed series' brilliant 10th novel A young couple are mown down in a hit and run incident. The girl is badly injured, the boy dies on the way to hospital. According to the sole witness the boy was in the middle of the road giving the approaching car the finger. Operation Melody is launched with DI Faraday at the helm. It reveals a mother driven to desperation by the attacks on her son--and a link to a terrible crime from the early 1980s that the victim does not want investigated. The investigation will rip apart a happy family, but the high-ups are desperate for their cold cases to be cleared up, whatever the cost. And round it all circles ex-DC Paul Winter, who has his own reasons for keeping the lid on an old crime. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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