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Cargando... Deadly Stillwater (2010)por Roger Stelljes
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is a police procedural story which is set in St. Paul, Minnesota. It involves a case of the daylight kidnapping of two females. ( ) This is just crap: totally disposable trash. We're in thrillers here, so nobody expects great literature - but there is such a thing as good bad art, whereas this ... ?! I have to admit that I don't know if the characters are interesting, the action exciting, the denouement thrilling. Because when I read the following (at 1%) I junked the whole thing: "He rolled his athletic six-foot-one frame out of the Explorer. Ruggedly handsome, Mac had short blond hair, icy blue eyes, and a taut face with a dimple the size of the Grand Canyon on his scarred chin. A former captain of the University of Minnesota hockey team, he was still at his 190-pound playing weight and worked hard daily to keep it that way. Sliding on his Oakley sunglasses, ..." I think this is what they mean when they call something 'beyond parody'. No: life's just too short for this rubbish. Some good, some bad, and (you guessed it) some in between Deadly Stillwater is the story of Detective Mac McRyan and the rest of the St. Paul Police Chief’s ‘boys’ and their efforts to solve a double kidnapping. Unfortunately, my review will be all over the map, as there are parts of this book that are extremely well done, parts that are mediocre, and parts that I simply did not care for. The good news first. I found the suspense in this story to be outstanding. In part, this is due to the heinous nature of the crime. But even so, the author did an admirable job of keeping my stomach in a knot, as the finale approached relentlessly. The pacing was excellent. There are really no downtimes, although there is some seemingly unnecessary repetition of ideas. In the so-so bucket, I would put character development. Many of the characters were largely stereotypes, making them and some of the dialog feel stale in places. But, the players were generally likable, if not all that real. Parts of the plot were also a bit high on the unbelievability scale, such as a programmer hacking multiple secure databases and creating complex data correlations on the fly. Consequently, I found myself thinking ‘yeah, right’ from time to time. But overall, the level of exaggeration was acceptable as a spice that complements the stew, rather than overpowering it. The bad news, in my mind, was the concept of a hand-picked set of detectives, “the chief’s boys” as they were known, who worked outside the law. I’d like to say that this team of detectives was presented as antiheros, but the feel of the book was more in the vein of ‘the ends justify the means.’ While I have enjoyed some novels where the protagonist dispensed justice when he/she had no faith in the judicial system, the boys found the law too cumbersome during their investigations, i.e., do whatever’s necessary to find the bad guys. I have a hard time seeing this idea as heroic and this distaste tended to taint the story for me. So, overall, if you are OK with a vigilante style of criminal investigation, Deadly Stillwater weaves a tense, well-paced yarn with somewhat stereotypic characters. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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THE CRIME SERIES WITH OVER 1.5 MILLION DOWNLOADS and 20,000+ REVIEWSNew York Times & USA Today Bestselling Mystery SeriesTWO GIRLS GONE...Shannon hustled to her car and dug into her black purse, searching for her car keys, "Where the heck did they go?" He quickly put his hand over her mouth as she screamed and thrashed, slid the van door open, and dragged her inside... She tried to scream through the duct tape pasted over her mouth. He could see the horror in Shannon's eyes. It was only the beginning...ONE DETECTIVE UNDER PRESSURE...The ruggedly handsome Mac McRyan, a fourth-generation cop, is faced with a complicated brazen daytime kidnapping, a media storm surrounding the case, and political scrutiny. An abduction is just the beginning in a case of betrayal and revenge that will ultimately strike at the heart and soul of the St. Paul Police Department.AND NO TIME LEFT.From the searing streets of St. Paul to the murky waters of the St. Croix River, DEADLY STILLWATER is a book you won't be able to put down until its last gripping minute.DETECTIVE MAC MCRYAN MYSTERY, THRILLER AND CRIME SERIES:(Also available in audio)FIRST CASE: Murder Alley - Book 1THE ST. PAUL CONSPIRACY - Book 2 - USA TODAY BestsellerDEADLY STILLWATER - Book 3FIRST DEADLY CONSPIRACY - Books 1-3 Boxset - New York Times & USA TODAY BestsellerELECTING TO MURDER - Book 4FATALLY BOUND - Book 5 - USA TODAY BestsellerBLOOD SILENCE - Book 6 - USA TODAY BestsellerMYSTERIES, THRILLERS AND KILLERS - Books 4-6 Boxset - New releaseNEXT GIRL ON THE LIST - Book 7STAKEOUT: A Case From The Dick Files - Short story - New releaseFIREBALL - Book 8 - New releaseA heart stopping killer thriller that fans of John Sandford, Lee Child and Michael Connelly will be hooked on by one of the best new authors in crime fiction. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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