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SL Beaumont

Autor de The Carlswick Affair

15 Obras 76 Miembros 6 Reseñas

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Conocimiento común

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female
Biografía breve
SL Beaumont is the author of the award-winning novel Shadow of Doubt and the Amazon best-selling series, The Carlswick Mysteries.

She lives in beautiful New Zealand, which is only problematic when the travel-bug bites (which it does fairly often)! Her passion for travel has seen her take many long haul flights to various parts of the world. Her love of history helps determine the destination and the places she visits are a constant source of inspiration for her.

Prior to becoming an author, SL Beaumont worked in banking in London and New York.

Shadow of Doubt won the 2020 Indie Reader Mystery/Suspense/Thriller Award, was long-listed for the 2020 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel, and was a semi-finalist for both the 2019 Publisher’s Weekly BookLife Prize and the 2020 Kindle Book Awards.

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My fourth read from author S.L. Beaumont, The Carlswick Conspiracy is well written & fast paced, with an interesting & intriguing storyline. A good well-written romantic suspense. I can see me reading more from this author & I look forward to the next book in the series. (RIP Marley January 20, 2014 - July 24, 2018).
 
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Rauger | Jan 11, 2024 |
Stephanie Cooper is 18 years old and about to begin her studies in history at Oxford. Since she doesn't know when she will have the time again, she decides to spend her summer break with her grandmother at the old family home in Carlswick. While she is there, she meets James Knox, the lead guitarist in an indie rock band, who is also a part of a family that is involved in a seventy-year-old feud with the Coopers. Stephanie and James initially hit it off, but when she sees a painting in the library at the Knox estate that she recognizes as a piece of stolen Nazi art believed destroyed in WWII, their relationship takes a dive leading almost to rock bottom. Things go from bad to worse as she begins to suspect that James' older brother, Alex, is smuggling art, and then matters become worse when she learns that her father is also somehow involved. The Carlswick Affair is a mystery that has potential as it follows Stephanie as she investigates not just the possibility of art smuggling but also into the death of her great-aunt Sophie, seventy years earlier and is somehow related to the painting in James Knox's house. The story starts out slow but picks up pace fairly quickly. The problem that I encountered, and that lost the story a star, was with the characters mostly. As I said, the story itself was good, but would have been much better if Stephanie had been slightly older and the boyfriend, James had been more mature and if the author had had him throwing temper tantrums and sulking all over the place like he was 5-years old.… (más)
 
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Carol420 | Sep 27, 2023 |
The first in a series flagged as the Kat Munroe thrillers, DEATH COUNT introduces Forensic Accountant Kat. She's renowned in that role, one of the best at chasing down fraud, identity theft, scams, money laundering and illegal money making schemes. She also lives with the shock and life changing consequences of serious injury, after losing a hand in a car accident, her boyfriend at the time drunk, driving the car which injured Kat so badly, and killed her friend. There are aspects of that crash and this case which intertwine unexpectedly for Kat and for DS Adam Jackson - a man with his own personal tragedies - and a protective streak when it comes to Kat. Not that she needs a lot of protecting, she might be disabled, but she's tough and not somebody easily threatened.

Sitting somewhere in the middle of police procedural and thriller, with a touch of personal attraction / romance built in, there was much to like about DEATH COUNT. Sure there are aspects of the personal that are a bit on the predictable side, but there was also plenty there less expected. The depiction of Kat and her disability was particularly well done with the emotional and physical fallout more than balanced by the strength she was developing as a result. There's a believable sense of foreboding and threat out of the investigation, and the way that it wove Kat and Adam's back stories together was believable and very compelling. The pace is good, and the financial crime component well developed, informative and realistic, compelling and very intriguing.

All in all, this is a series that could be just the thing for fans of police procedurals with a personal / romantic component, and definitely for anybody looking for a central protagonist working to overcome some serious physical challenges.

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/death-count-sl-beaumont
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austcrimefiction | Nov 8, 2021 |
I will admit to having been a bit of a Brexit junkie, addicted to the podcast Brexitcast from the BBC, which meant SHADOW OF DOUBT arrived at a particularly pertinent time, set as it is in the time of Brexit, with a very interesting central premise - would the overwhelming Remain vote in Scotland push people there to an IRA like terror campaign in England.

Starting out in London, against the backdrop of big international banks, trading floors and highly specialised financial departments, there's a real sense of the friendship that close working partnerships build, that becomes something more when tragedy strikes. The corporate world of work hard / play hard with company preferred drinking holes, little laneways and dark, shadowy pubs is well depicted, and the sense of hubbub of corporate London was good. The tension switches from the pressures of work and a distant husband / home life, when a terrorist bomb is set off one evening. Central character Jessica is caught up in the bombing aftermath, then her beloved father dies, all the while her husband is absent emotionally and physically as she turns to a new work colleague for support and understanding.

When Jessica's father leaves her the key to a safe deposit box, all sorts of things start to fall into place. Husband Colin's odd work practices, her colleagues sudden involvement in her life, the bombing, the banking world, everything starts twisting together as Jessica follows the well hidden trail of clues her father left for her.

SHADOW OF DOUBT has a hefty dose of personal and romantic angst in it, and there were times when it was really hard not to want to talk some sense into a very put-upon, somewhat naive Jessica but they were fleeting, and overall SHADOW OF DOUBT is a twisty page turner of a thriller, with lots of menace. The romantic angst is not overblown, and actually quite understandable, although you do have to wonder how it is that Jessica and Colin's marriage was so devoid of curiosity. The topicality of the plot lines was well handled, and for a reader far from the Brexit action, but mildly obsessed, felt quite believable.

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/shadow-doubt-sl-beaumont
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austcrimefiction | Aug 21, 2020 |

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Obras
15
Miembros
76
Popularidad
#233,522
Valoración
½ 3.6
Reseñas
6
ISBNs
17

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