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Cargando... Singing the Sadness (Joe Sixsmith) (1999 original; edición 2000)por Reginald Hill (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Joe Sixsmith rescues a woman from burning cottage and discovers who put her there I like Joe Sixsmith, the main character. Parts of this book were a bit too introspective and made it bog down for me, esp. with the regional flavor and dialect which is a good thing but slows down the reading while I puzzle things out. I am sorry to hear about the the passing of Mr. Hill, he was a good writer. I have enormous affection for PI Joe Sixsmith. I like his modesty, his kindness, his humour, his bumbling method of solving crimes (personally I think he has more skill than he believes he does), the fact that the strongest language he will use is "shoot" despite his dedication to the teachings of a hard-boiled US detective whose name escapes me and last but not least the immensely entertaining regular secondary characters, particularly his feisty Aunt Mirabelle and cynical cat Whitey. Sadly, in this novel Whitey is left back in Luton while Joe gets into predictable levels of strife in the wild west, i.e. Wales. Perhaps that's why I'm only awarding 3.5 stars. I miss Whitey. The story, while entertaining and engaging, is not as uniformly gripping as much of Reginald Hill's other work. Nevertheless, I'm saddened by the awareness that due to the death of Mr Hill, this is the penultimate Joe Sixsmith novel. I might hold off on the last one for a while so as not to really have to say goodbye too soon. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Private investigator Joe Sixsmith, a former lathe operator whose skill at detection is part pure luck and part an uncanny ability to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, rushes into a burning cottage to save a young woman trapped inside. She's barely alive, nameless...and the subject of Joe's new mystery.Joe is in Wales for a church choir festival. He's retained by two parties to uncover the identity of the young woman. Joe's not up to any more heroics, though his clients may be. But before a killer can be brought to justice, he may have to play hero one more time -- to save his own skin. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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