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Cargando... Sleepyhead (The Di Tom Thorne Book 1) (2001 original; edición 2013)por Mark Billingham
Información de la obraSleepyhead por Mark Billingham (2001)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Great beginning to a series. ( ) This was a really dark mystery, with not much in the way of humor or anything positive. I don't know why I liked it so much, and I'm wondering if I should be worried about it. How can anyone like a book about a deranged serial killer who would purposely want to cripple someone so severely that they can't do anything? Aside from that, the book was hard to put down, especially toward the end. Lots of suspense, and lots of wondering what was actually going on. If you like dark mysteries, you just might like this one. If you want some uplifting story with a happy ending, I think you'd better move on. I plan to read some more from this series; I hope they are as good as this one. Tricky to rate this one but ended up on 2 stars "It was okay". The technical standard of the writing is very high with clear characterisation and vivid description but it just didn't compell me in any way. I would say it was a slog for the most part except it's a very easy read because of how good the prose is. One of those where you tear through the pages but aren't interested once you put it down. Not sure what the problem was, although it wasn't helped by the amount of the book spent pursuing the red herring who was very obviously so, making our protagonist look kind of like an idiot because he was convinced based on, essentially, nothing. There is an attempt to make "being wrong" into the lesson of the piece for him but it didn't land for me. The final act was where it actually got me compulsively reading to the finish but the overly-theatrical finale felt very out of place and melodramatic compared to the rest of the book. Would I read another? Yes. Would I care if I never did? No.
Billingham takes risks in making his cop hero, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne, so pigheaded and off track for most of the investigation, though it's easy to imagine Thorne becoming a companionable protagonist... and Billingham's control of character and plot becoming more sure. He's off to a remarkable start. Contenido enDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Alison Willetts sufre la desdicha de continuar con vida. Sobrevivio? a una apopleji?a, provocada deliberadamente por una diestra manipulacio?n sobre ciertos puntos sensibles de la cabeza y el cuello. Puede ver, escuchar y sentir, percibe todo lo que sucede a su alrededor, pero esta? totalmente incapacitada para moverse o comunicarse. La policia piensa que el asesino cometio? su primer gran error al dejar a Alison Willetts con vida, pero el detective Tom Thorne descubre la horripilante realidad: el error no es el cometido con Alison, sino con las tres mujeres que ya ha asesinado. Hay en el modo en que el asesino ha acabado con ellas y Thorne esta? convencido de que habra? ma?s vi?ctimas. Debe encontrar al hombre que posee esa terrori?fica agenda y Alison es la u?nica persona que tiene la clave para descubrirle. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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