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Cargando... The finisher : a Peter Diamond investigation (2020 original; edición 2020)por Peter Lovesey
Información de la obraThe Finisher por Peter Lovesey (2020)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I don't remember what prompted me to read this entry in a long-running series. I hadn't read any of the others, and won't be reading more. It's interesting enough, but Inspector Diamond came across as a stubborn, erratic detective who solved the crime in spite of himself. ( ) Better than the last one. Still, these have lost their freshness - repetitive, and fairly predictable. Structurally a little odd - you get hooked into certain threads or subplots, and then they just vanish until Lovesey whips them back out again many chapters later. Still, a pint with Peter Diamond in Bath is not the worst way to spend an evening. This is the 19th book in the Peter Diamond series, yet it is the first one I have read. Aside from the relationship between Paloma and Diamond, this book can be read as a stand-alone. The Other Half, a half-marathon in Bath is the main setting for this novel. When Peter sees a criminal, Tony Pinto, who was recently released from prison in the race, he is concerned about the woman Pinto is harassing. When the woman goes missing from the race, Diamond continues to investigate. His investigation leads the team to uncover a trafficking ring and the mastermind behind it. The team also discovers the identity of The Finisher. This was an interesting mystery, very well written. Lovesey is one of my favorite authors. It is a good thing I didn't read this earlier or I might not have read another of his books. This book takes way too long to get started and it ends in a muddle. I think fitting in some of the author's knowledge about running became more of a concern than tending to the plot. In the umpteenth Peter Diamond book, Lovesey, still manages to craft a story that isn’t tired or rehashed. His characters remain fresh and the plot and delivery of course are masterful. I kept trying to figure out how he was going to put what seem to be different stories together in the mystery, but he does successfully. And the ending, God Bless you Paloma, you should have wanted to adopt a pet long ago. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesPeter Diamond (19)
"Through a particularly tragic series of events, couch potato Maeve Kelly, an elementary school teacher whose mother always assured her "curvy" girls shouldn't waste their time trying to be fit, has been forced to sign up for the Other Half, Bath's springtime half-marathon. The training is brutal, but she must disprove her mother and collect pledges for her aunt's beloved charity. What Maeve doesn't know is just how brutal some of the other runners are. As race day draws closer, an undocumented Albanian man named Spiro makes a run for freedom on the other side of town, escaping the chain gang that has held him hostage and its murderous foreman, who is known to his charges as The Finisher. The Finisher has killed for disobedience before, and Spiro knows there's a target on his back as he tries to lose himself in the genteel medieval city of Bath. Meanwhile Detective Peter Diamond is tasked with crowd control on the raucous day of the race-and catches sight of a violent criminal he put away a decade ago, and who very much seems to be up to his old tricks now that he is paroled. Diamond's hackles are already up when he learns that one of the runners never crossed the finish line-disappeared without a trace. Was Diamond a spectator to the prelude to a murder?"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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