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Cargando... The Man Who Tried to Get Away (1990)por Stephen R. Donaldson
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The fifth in the brilliant crime series by the Number One bestselling fantasy author all around the world. Ex-alcoholic private investigator Mick "Brew" Axbrewder is in trouble again - he's taken a bullet in the stomach, and someone wants to finish the job. His partner, Ginny Fistoulari, is determined to keep him safe, so she takes an 'easy' job, an assignment so straightforward it is practically a vacation. Murder On Cue, Inc. run mystery camps, and their insurance company requires a security presence. The camp is being held at an isolated hunting lodge, and all Ginny and Brew have to do is show up, play along, and keep their real identities secret. But the game becomes only too real - and Brew and Ginny find themselves at the heart of murder hunt . . . No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Mick and Ginny decide to flee hospital after Mick recieves some threatening phone calls during his recuperation from the events in the previous book. Ginny has arranged for them to provide 'security' to a Murder Mystery camp getaway. Apparently this will be a soft shoe job, and is sufficently isolated that none of the El-Senior's gang will be able to find them. A froecast of heavy snow means they are effectively cut-of from the outside world for a week. Unsurprisingly the first real body turns up shortly afterwards. A girl in Mick's arms is shot through a window - the killer must be from outside the house. Everything else is predictable form here on.
Donaldson doesn't write mysteries very well, they're ok, but too predictable in terms of plot. However what he has always done, and continues to do here, is write characters. Intense characters, driven by pain, guilt, fear and jealously. Dark emotions, and strong motivations. This is very much a book about relationships, 5 couples are at the getaway, and I'm not sure nay of them could be classed as normal. Mick and Ginny are still working things through, her guilt over his getting shot, and vice versa. The otehrs have different motivations but similar results- strain and tension leading to looking for comfort elsewhere, which brings its own problems. The tnesions created by the increasing bodycount only make this more notable.
As always Donaldson writes absorbing prose, but this is much more memorable for the characterisations than the mystery. ( )