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Cargando... Brass in Pocket (edición 2013)por Stephen Puleston
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Picked up as a free ebook from Amazon during an offer period. This is one of the first traditional crime procedurals I've read in ages (perhaps years) and it's also set in the less-than-traditional Welsh countryside, so I believe that's why I picked it up. This is the first in the Inspector Drake series. Drake is a married man with several children and he has plenty of his own issues. He finds solace and peace in having order around him - even if it means staying at work late to have his desk tidy and the soduku puzzle finished. Rest of the review can be found on my blog here: https://nordie.wordpress.com/2015/06/18/book-review-brass-in-pocket-by-stephen-p... This book in potential had a lot going for it: good plot, a great location and a detective with OCD. It was, however, let down by poor characterisation. Drake's OCD was manifested in tidying his desk and doing Sudoku, we're were never given a glimpse into what it might mean to have OCD; the characters seem to spend more time driving from place to place and not fully question the interviewees - many times obvious lines of questionings we're ignored. Ultimately, disappointing. It's rare for me to start a series at book one. These days I seem to accidentally find myself starting at book four or five and then have to go back and find out how the characters got to the point where I discovered them. This time I'm starting at the beginning and thrilled to know there are many more in the Ian Drake series for me to enjoy. A police procedural is one of my favourite types of story. And when it is done well it is an unputdownable format. There are lots of clues in this story that send me off in one direction or another but time after time they turn into red herrings that have fooled me with misdirection. The various murders, with the different methods of killing and the different settings for the crime meant that it was even harder than usual to identify the killer. Stephen Puleston did a brilliant job in making me suspect everybody. I did have an aha moment and work out for myself who the killer was and why but not until close to the end of the book. It was interesting to see how Inspector Drake's OCD was dealt with in the story. His need to rearrange the items on his desk, to be tidy and precise was emphasised time and time again. I found it a literary device that emphasised the uncontrollable nature of OCD and how it can be as distressing for the people around the sufferer as it is for the person themselves. I very much enjoyed listening to Richard Elyfn narrate this audiobook. For the most part, his Welsh accent fitted the whole cast of characters. So often people don't realise that the Welsh accent changes from North to South but this is definitely the right voice for this book sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesIan Drake (1)
It is the middle of the night ...The road is deserted ...A killer is waiting ...Two traffic officers are killed on an isolated mountain pass in North Wales. Inspector Drake is called to the scene and quickly discovers a message left by the killer - traffic cones in the shape of a No 4.The killer starts sending the Wales Police Service lyrics from famous rock songs. Are they messages or is there some hidden meaning in them?Does it all mean more killings are likely? When a politician is killed Drake has his answer. And then the killer sends more song lyrics. Now Drake has to face the possibility of more deaths but with numbers dominating the case Drake has to face his own rituals and obsessions.Finally when the killer threatens Drake and his family he faces his greatest challenge in finding the killer before he strikes again. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Drake is a married man with several children and he has plenty of his own issues. He finds solace and peace in having order around him - even if it means staying at work late to have his desk tidy and the soduku puzzle finished.
Rest of the review can be found on my blog here: https://nordie.wordpress.com/2015/06/18/book-review-brass-in-pocket-by-stephen-p...