June Thomson
Autor(a) de Holmes and Watson
About the Author
Séries
Obras por June Thomson
Beyond All Evil: Two monsters, two mothers, a love that will last forever (2011) — Autor — 16 exemplares
Niente fiori (Inspector Rudd, #13) 1 exemplar
Tempo de Alibi 1 exemplar
Toddler Care for Beginners 1 exemplar
The Case of the Wimbledon Tragedy 1 exemplar
The Girl with the Red-Gold Hair 1 exemplar
The Case of the Barton Wood Murder 1 exemplar
The Case of the Camberwell Deception 1 exemplar
The Case of the Vatican Cameos 1 exemplar
The Case of the Ferrers Documents 1 exemplar
The Case of the Boulevard Assassin 1 exemplar
The Case of the Ainsworth Abduction 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Second Annual Edition (1993) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 46
- Also by
- 10
- Membros
- 827
- Popularidade
- #30,854
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Críticas
- 28
- ISBN
- 166
- Línguas
- 3
- Marcado como favorito
- 1
"Within a few days one of this company would be dead -- and the rest under suspicion of murder. A murder so unexpected, brutal and calculating that even the formidable Detective Inspector Finch found it utterly baffling."
~~back cover
"A murder so unexpected" is an excellent description. Knowing you're reading a murder mystery, the reader eagerly follows the very generous clues that might possibly lead to sussing out the victim in advance. And those clues are all wrong. The victim is the least expected of all of the group.
Even worse, the murder almost certainly seems to have been done by an unknown intruder -- certainly not anyone the victim might have known, even slightly. A random burglary gone wrong? At first it appears to be the case, but then ... little details begin to add up to the murderer being known to the victim.
The plot builds slowly on these bare bones, pulling the reader into a morass of investigation that seemingly leads nowhere ... until suddenly things begin to fall into place. Since this is a murder mystery, the genre demands the murder be solved in the end, and indeed it is. But the reader (like Detective Inspector Finch) remain mostly in the dark until the very last moment, when all is revealed to the surprise of everyone involved.
An excellent mystery, that so many of the more modern ones fail to live up to.… (mais)