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Cargando... The Shining Skull (2007)por Kate Ellis
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book contained so many kidnappings and planned kidnappings that it all got a bit ridiculous. The police were so incompetent in their efforts to get Leah back that I was surprised they didn't all get demoted. Neil's storyline bored me for most of the book, although of course everything came together at the end. I didn't feel the author gave any good explanation of the appeal of Joan Shiner, which made things seem a bit under-motivated. ( ) I have now read enough of these books to understand the style. Kate Ellis' detective, Wes Peterson, deals with a couple of crimes at a time. The first is resolved some fifty pages from the end and, the clues are such that the reader gets there just before our hero. Feeling confident, we over stretch and are convinced that we have also solved the major crime but, of course, a neat body swerve leaves us looking foolish, as the perpetrator inevitably turns out to be someone else. I LOVE IT!!!! The kidnapping of a teenaged pop sensation bears uncanny resemblance to the kidnapping of a 7-year-old 30 years ago, and the victim in that case appears to have reappeared -- or is it an imposter? A fake taxi driver is cutting off women's hair - will he escalate to something worse? Meanwhile Neil has found an extra body in a Regency coffin. Is it related to the cult of the prophetess Joan Shiner? The best of the series so far. Lots of suspense and unexpected twists. I certainly didn't see the solution to the main mystery coming at all. However, since it's taken this long for it to click that Neil is more formally called Dr. Watson, that may not be very surprising. I think I've talked enough about the shortcomings of this series in the past. But I'll mention something new(ish): this time I thought this was the wrong book to read if you were looking for good police procedure - I can't believe that this is how anyone would handle a kidnapping.
However I guess the short answer (if there was a question) is that I'm not after pin point accuracy in lieu of a good yarn, and Kate Ellis can spin a decent yarn.
One of the things I like about this series in the thinly disguised version of Devon used for location - a short scene set at "Whitepool Sands" had me remembering my daughter falling in the sea at Blackpool Sands for the rest of the book. Good entertainment. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesWesley Peterson (11)
Little Marcus Fallbrook was kidnapped in 1976 and when he never returned home, his grieving family assumed the worst. Then, thirty years later, teenage singing star Leah Wakefield disappears and DI Wesley Peterson has reason to suspect that the same kidnapper is responsible. And another abductor is at work in the area - a man who tricks blonde women into a bogus taxi and cuts off their hair. Has Leah fallen prey to the man the newspapers call 'The Barber' or has she suffered a more sinister fate? But then Marcus Fallbrook returns from the dead. And when DNA evidence confirms his identity, the investigation takes a new twist. Meanwhile, archaeologist, Neil Watson's gruesome task of exhuming the dead from a local churchyard yields a mystery of its own when a coffin is found to contain one corpse too many - a corpse that may be linked to a strange religious sect dating back to Regency times. Wesley has his hands full elsewhere - slowly, Marcus Fallbrook begins to recover memories that Wesley hopes will lead him to cunning and dangerous murderer. But he is about to discover that the past can be a very dangerous place indeed. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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