Mignon F. Ballard
Autor de Angel at Troublesome Creek
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Mignon Ballard and Kathy Hogan Trocheck with Justine Veatch at SEBA
Series
Obras de Mignon F. Ballard
Augusta Goodnight 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Ballard, Mignon Franklin
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1934
- Género
- female
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Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 23
- También por
- 4
- Miembros
- 985
- Popularidad
- #26,140
- Valoración
- 3.3
- Reseñas
- 35
- ISBNs
- 91
- Idiomas
- 2
- Favorito
- 2
The mystery should have been better for me; it had the right elements: reclusive artist murdered, and paintings gone missing, but it just failed to hook me. I love the characters though (except Miss Dimple; she's a little too Mary Poppins for me to really like her); Charlie, Annie, Virginia... they're all of their time and fun to read about. And I really appreciated Ballard's choice of innocent suspect: a Japanese American woman freshly graduated from medical school, forced to hide after her family in California is sent to a 'relocation camp'; she was acting as the artists companion/nurse when the murder occurred. Ballard uses the story to spotlight the horrible situation these American citizens found themselves in because of their heritage, something I don't see written about very much.
Generally, not a bad book; I enjoyed it enough, but I didn't love it.… (más)