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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Meandering and boring. 300 pages, nothing actually happens until page 250. After the train goes off the tracks, which was horribly written, nothing else is even remotely interesting. ( ) Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Kind of slow, like life in Oklahoma (where I grew up). The description of the train wreck was heart wrenching. Getting to know the characters made you care about them. Haven't finished yet but had to submit some kind of review. Will update when finished. 6/2/2023 Finally finished, well worth the read. I looked up train derailment in Oklahoma and found the exact story on which this book was based. Was fascinating. I bought this book based on reviews on this site. I enjoyed it because I am very interesting in the Dust Bowl era and this book doesn't disappoint. It describes life at the end of the Depression, giving a window in to the struggles of people living in that era and that location. Cozy mysteries are my favorite genre and because of this I felt that the mystery in this book wasn't quite there. I didn't feel the tension or get the usual red herrings. Also felt unsettled with the niece story; no closure there. It was as if they were a means to an end in furthering the mystery. Overall the story was good enough. I have yet to read a book written by Laurie Loewenstein that I haven't liked. She has a blend of character, story, and setting that suits me right down to the ground. The opening scenes of Funeral Train are chilling as I was introduced to people on a passenger train shortly before it derailed. Then I was sickened and infuriated when Loewenstein shared some information about passenger trains in the 1930s. (Black travelers had to pay full price to travel in shoddy, flimsy passenger cars commonly referred to as "pine hearses" placed right behind the locomotives while white passengers traveled in comfort farther back in metal cars that were much less likely to be damaged.) The mystery is a good one, but the real strength of Funeral Train lies in its portrait of small-town life during the double whammy of the Depression and the Dust Bowl. I felt as though I were in Vermillion right along with the railroad detective, Claude Steele, and Sheriff Temple Jennings as they searched for clues among the cranks, gossips, and fine, upstanding citizens there in town. Jennings, who survived the Johnstown Flood as a child, is a mentor to his deputy, Ed McCance, who watches Jennings carefully and writes down what the sheriff says in a notebook. Newly married, McCance not only wants to be sheriff one day but he also wants to stay alive in order to earn the promotion. Jennings and McCance are trying to find a killer, but they also must deal with a noisy dog, the town's blind movie theater owner, and Gwendolyn the cow. Life in all its variety in small-town Oklahoma. It's hard to describe how much at home I felt while reading this book, but the reason why did occur to me as the pages turned. It is the small details Loewenstein weaves into her story. I grew up among family members who were teenagers during the Depression. The way Loewenstein's characters talk is the way my family members talked. Grain elevators were also the biggest buildings in my hometown, my family also gathered to play pinochle on Saturday evenings, and A Child's Garden of Verses was familiar to me whenever I was sick in bed. Funeral Train is steeped in its time and place, and its finely delineated characters bring a town and a mystery to life. If you enjoy historical mysteries and have yet to read Laurie Loewenstein, you're missing out. Do something about it! Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. This book is both a mystery surrounding a train derailment and a look at life in 1930’s small-town Oklahoma. While I found the mystery enjoyable, for me, the descriptions of living conditions during the Depression/Dust Bowl was the book’s strength. The poverty, joblessness, racism, and land devastation of the times were vividly portrayed, as were the strengths and failings of the believable characters. I enjoyed the author’s previous book in the series and am hoping there will be more to come. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: In her gripping follow-up to the widely acclaimed Dust Bowl Mystery Death of a Rainmaker, Laurie Loewenstein brings 1930s Oklahoma evocatively to life. Already suffering the privations of the 1930s Dust Bowl, an Oklahoma town is further devastated when a passenger train derailsâ??flooding its hospital with the dead and maimed. Among the seriously wounded is Etha, wife of Sheriff Temple Jennings. Overwhelmed by worry for her, the sheriff must regain his footing to investigate the derailment, which rapidly develops into a case of sabotage. The following night, a local recluse is murdered. Temple has a hunch that this death is connected to the train wreck. But as he dissects the victim's life with help from the recuperating and resourceful Etha, he discovers a tangle of records that make a number of townsfolk suspects in the murder. Temple's investigations take place against the backdrop of the Great Depressionâ??where bootlegging, petty extortion, courage, and bravado play out in equal measure No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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