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Cargando... Eight Perfect Murders: A Novel (Malcolm Kershaw) (2019 original; edición 2020)por Peter Swanson (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. “Books are time travel…they can take you back to different versions of yourself.” This started off well and had an interesting twist but it tended to drag and be repetitive. The references to the other books within the plot gave a lot of spoilers but that is to be expected. The characters lacked depth and interest so I wasn’t particularly invested in the protagonist being good or bad, alive or dead. I think I preferred the cat the most! Personal irk, I hate it when authors constantly repeat surnames of only some of the characters. Most of us readers are not morons with short attention spans and it shows an annoying lack of consistency. This started off well even though I had no idea where the story was leading. The narrator is a mystery bookseller and created a blog post about eight well-known mysteries with the same title as the book. I have already read the books referenced so I wasn’t worried about spoilers, which was fortunate as there are many. My suspicions began before the FBI started showing an interest in the list and the list-maker. Repeated references to the plots and characters from books on the list gave the story a repetitive feel, compounded by the corresponding plot and characters in the story. A clever idea that got bogged down in details. Disappointing, especially with so many spoilers. I will admit that when I first started this book, I was not sure that I would finish it. What I perceived it to be more about literature books of the perfect murder, happily turned out to be so much more. I am relieved that I stuck with it. The book does follow many works of classic suspense books, but entwined with its own unique story. A story that held my interest right through to the end. It definitely has some neat interesting twists that you might not see coming. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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¿EXISTE EL CRÍMEN PERFECTO?Ocho clásicos de la novela negra. Ocho maneras de matar. Un solo asesino.«Diabólicamente entretenido». Anthony Horowitz«De manera perspicaz e inesperada, Peter Swanson nos arrastra de un giro de la trama al siguiente, hasta que, con la tensión a flor de piel y los nervios disparados, llegamos a la sorprendente conclusión final. Un verdadero tour de force». Lisa GardnerHace quince años, el aficionado a las novelas de misterio Malcolm Kershaw publicó en el blog de la librería en la que entonces trabajaba una lista --que apenas recibió visitas ni comentarios-- sobre los que a su juicio eran los más logrados crímenes literarios de la historia. La tituló Ocho asesinatos perfectos e incluía clásicos de varios de los grandes nombres del género negro: Agatha Christie, James M. Cain, Patricia Highsmith...Por eso Kershaw, ahora viudo y copropietario de una pequeña librería independiente en Boston, es el primer sorprendido cuando una agente del FBI llama a su puerta en un gélido día de febrero, buscando información sobre una macabra serie de asesinatos sin resolver que se parecen inquietantemente a los seleccionados por él en aquella vieja lista...¿Existe el asesinato perfecto? En este original e inteligente thriller, Peter Swanson desdibuja con mano maestra las fronteras entre la realidad y la ficción, convirtiendo así su apasionante y lúdica trama en un nostálgico homenaje a los más brillantes y acabados crímenes de la literatura detectivesca. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Malcolm is an interesting character and narrator that we slowly learn more about and I loved the plot of catching a killer who tries to imitate the murders from books on a list. I enjoyed the places the story went to and I also loved the ending.
The book spoilers the main twists of the books from the list and also of the Murder of Roger Ackroyd, but it didn't put me off reading them at all, instead it made me want to read (most of) them, and some of them I have now read! I love it when books manage to get me interested in other books I never would have picked up otherwise.
Objectively speaking, The kind worth killing is probably Peter Swanson's best work, but this one is my favourite from him.
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