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Cargando... New Hope for the Dead (1985 original; edición 2009)por Charles Willeford
Información de la obraNew Hope for the Dead por Charles Willeford (1985)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Not your typical crime/detective novel, that's for sure. ( ) Enjoyable, standard rather plodding crime story. Kind of like watching Law and Order.. not great, but riveting enough. In this one, Hoke has his daughters come to stay with him and then his pregnant partner Alita also comes in to her house as a platonic partner. Eventually Hoke is able to blackmail a killer to leave town to take over her house for 4 years (at the price of him keeping quiet). For plot twists like that and the sometime lowlife characters, I enjoy Willeford, though this book did have an element of ... a chapter in a saga ... w/o drama w/o climax .. just another few months of Hoke. A well-done sequel of sorts to Miami Blues, this one like its predecessor in its dark humor and deadpan style but unlike it in terms of the plot: there’s no equivalent to Junior here and the book is more leisurely paced. There are some crimes and Hoke solves them, but these are secondary to the portrait of a middle-aged detective trying to reclaim some of the dignity he lost so long ago that he can’t remember where he put it. There are also a few truly shocking moments where I covered my mouth with my hand. By any yardstick, Willeford’s a good writer. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Homicide detective Hoke Moseley is called to a posh Miami neighborhood to investigate a lethal overdose. There he meets the alluring stepmother of the decedent and begins to wonder about dating a witness. Meanwhile, he has been threatened with suspension by his ambitious new chief unless he leaves his beloved, if squalid, suite at the Eldorado Hotel and moves downtown. With free housing hard to come by, Hoke is desperate to find a new place to live. His difficulties are only amplified by an assignment to reinvestigate fifty unsolved murders, the unexpected arrival of his two teenage daughters, and a partner struggling with an unwanted pregnancy. With few options, and even fewer dollars, he decides that the suspicious and beautiful stepmother of the dead junkie might be a compromised solution to all of his problems.Packed with atmosphere and humor, New Hope for the Dead is a classic murder mystery by one of the true masters of the genre. Charles Willeford's tour de force is an irresistible invitation to become acquainted with one of the greatest detective characters of all time. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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