Edward J. Leahy
Autor de Past Grief
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Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing.This is a wonderfully exciting book with very short chapters. I could hardly stop reading.
In the beginning it was not clear to me that an earlier book preceded it. That was annoying, but you read over it. The political wrangling about a mayoral election is unknown to me, because I am Dutch. That was hard to read at times, but I really enjoyed reading this book.
In the beginning it was not clear to me that an earlier book preceded it. That was annoying, but you read over it. The political wrangling about a mayoral election is unknown to me, because I am Dutch. That was hard to read at times, but I really enjoyed reading this book.
Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing.Deceived by Ornament by Edward J. Leahy (2022)
Five murders: two policeman, a Latino immigration lawyer, a social worker and a church housekeeper and the suspected murderer is a policeman. Each body is marked on the chest with a pagan symbol which connects the bodies and indicates more to come to complete the symbolism. It is clear that a strong dislike of migrants and people of colour, in particular Latinos, regardless of the fact that they maybe American citizens born and bred, runs through the group behind the killings and the subsequent riots in the city.
The lead detective, Kim Brady, has a successfully solved homicide case on her record and is able to keep numerous balls in the air at one time. She has been landed with an officer who doesn’t have the qualifications or the knowledge to work in the department but does have someone pulling strings for him. It is clear one of her senior officers is being blackmailed which makes her investigate difficult, however with a strong team she succeeds in solving the case.
I liked the book but had a number of problems with it. The title doesn’t make sense, the chest carvings don’t sat ornaments to me. There are a large, perhaps too large, number of characters and I found them difficult to keep track of particularly as many of the last names started with the same letter, “C.” There is a lot of action in various parts of the city and again keeping track of who was doing what where was confusing. Perhaps I have been reading too many rural English police procedurals!
I received this book through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers Program.
Reviewed September 24, 2022
📚📚📚1/2
I had a problem downloading this book and actually read it as a KindleUnlimited title.… (más)
Five murders: two policeman, a Latino immigration lawyer, a social worker and a church housekeeper and the suspected murderer is a policeman. Each body is marked on the chest with a pagan symbol which connects the bodies and indicates more to come to complete the symbolism. It is clear that a strong dislike of migrants and people of colour, in particular Latinos, regardless of the fact that they maybe American citizens born and bred, runs through the group behind the killings and the subsequent riots in the city.
The lead detective, Kim Brady, has a successfully solved homicide case on her record and is able to keep numerous balls in the air at one time. She has been landed with an officer who doesn’t have the qualifications or the knowledge to work in the department but does have someone pulling strings for him. It is clear one of her senior officers is being blackmailed which makes her investigate difficult, however with a strong team she succeeds in solving the case.
I liked the book but had a number of problems with it. The title doesn’t make sense, the chest carvings don’t sat ornaments to me. There are a large, perhaps too large, number of characters and I found them difficult to keep track of particularly as many of the last names started with the same letter, “C.” There is a lot of action in various parts of the city and again keeping track of who was doing what where was confusing. Perhaps I have been reading too many rural English police procedurals!
I received this book through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers Program.
Reviewed September 24, 2022
📚📚📚1/2
I had a problem downloading this book and actually read it as a KindleUnlimited title.… (más)
Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing.I enjoyed reading Past Grief. The story kept my interest and kept pulling me back. I was continually guessing who could be trusted and who was dirty. I would recommend it.
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 7
- Miembros
- 20
- Popularidad
- #589,235
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 6
Before the US got into the global war in 1941, multiple states were battling a serial thief with a double twist to his actions. The main narrator is an NYPD cop, in the first third the alternate is mainly the bad guy, but the alternate throughout is a dedicated German fascist including his contributing to the German war machine. The parts about the sympathizers disrupting shopkeepers, jewelers, and places of worship in an apparently random pattern throughout three of the boroughs is historically sound. A very interesting story.
I requested and received an EARC from Black Rose Writing via NetGalley. Thank you.… (más)