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Cargando... A Dead Liberty (1986)por Catherine Aird
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Engineer killed to cover scandal on tunnel construction. Suspect won't talk. When you have been writing a series of detective novels for over five decades the quality is bound to vary wildly. The Inspector Sloan series by Catherine Aird is no different. Some of the books in this series are not great, with rather weak motives and a narrative which threatens to go off the rails at all times. This book is one of her better ones. The motive was too simple and the narrative rather convoluted. I did manage to spot the murderer pretty much as soon as they came in the picture. But the central character was rather interesting and the book managed to hold my attention throughout. I like this one. I didn't remember who was the murderer but I almost remembered the method - saw it coming way early. But I enjoyed watching it play out. And both Sloane and Crosby are less cardboard than usual in this one, somehow; the single-book characters are interesting as usual...overall a good book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
A crime of passion, a jealous admirer, a woman who would kill before she would be spurned--it might all fit if only the primary suspect would talk in CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird's Dead Liberty Lucy Durmast waits patiently in front of the judge at her own murder trial, refusing to utter a single word. Kenneth Carline, an employee of her father's, was found poisoned to death after eating a meal that Lucy herself had prepared. Kenneth was set to marry another, and Lucy, it seems, was jealous. But what should have been an open-and-shut case of envy-driven murder becomes complicated when primary detective Trevor Porritt suffers permanent brain damage. C. D. Sloan inherits the file--and immediately begins poking holes in what looked like an airtight case. Why has the primary suspect gone mute? What was the victim doing with antinuclear pamphlets in his car? Was Detective Porritt's run-in with the burglar an unhappy coincidence? And what part does the king of the African nation of Dlasa, a client of Lucy's father, play in all this? When someone connected to the case dies and the son of the king of Dlasa goes missing, panic begins to spread. Can Inspector Sloan and his hapless assistant, Constable Crosby, untangle this knotted web? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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