Steve Burrows
Autor(a) de A Siege of Bitterns
Séries
Obras por Steve Burrows
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Canada
- Local de nascimento
- Birmingham, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
- Educação
- York University, Canada
Hong Kong
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Steve first began exploring nature in the urban parks of his childhood home in Birmingham, UK. After emigrating to Canada, he earned degrees from York University and Dalhousie University before relocating to Hong Kong, where he earned a Master's degree from the University of Hong Kong. His dissertation explored the feasibility of reintroducing Silver Pheasants into Hong Kong's forests.
In addition to birding, Steve's interests include soccer, guitar, poker, and single-malt whisky. He is currently learning to juggle and play the banjo, (though he accepts it is unlikely he will ever be able to do both at the same time). After travelling the world together, Steve and his wife currently live in Oshawa, Canada.
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My Review: The sixth book in an ongoing series, this entry has two things I enjoy...Canadian setting, birding events...and two things I really don't...family dynamics that are absurd and coercive, woman-in-jeopardy driving the plot.
Domenic's brother Damien is TSTL and has needed rescuing a LOT in the series. This time he simply does not take reasonable precautions! He does careless things a lot and Domenic always scrapes up the mess. Why? No excuse works for this long for this reader.
Lindy, who is notionally Domenic's ex at this point, gets kidnapped, and that is of course a huge deal...but she's back in the UK not in Canada so Domenic isn't involved in the search...but of course is upset by it. This is called "fridging" in the comics genre, and it makes me nutso.
This explains my under-four-star rating, and honestly the wide-open place the book stops felt like a cheat not an ending, so permaybehaps I won't be on to book seven.… (mais)
My Review: The sixth book in an ongoing series, this entry has two things I enjoy...Canadian setting, birding events...and two things I really don't...family dynamics that are absurd and coercive, woman-in-jeopardy driving the plot.
Domenic's brother Damien is TSTL and has needed rescuing a LOT in the series. This time he simply does not take reasonable precautions! He does careless things a lot and Domenic always scrapes up the mess. Why? No excuse works for this long for this reader.
Lindy, who is notionally Domenic's ex at this point, gets kidnapped, and that is of course a huge deal...but she's back in the UK not in Canada so Domenic isn't involved in the search...but of course is upset by it. This is called "fridging" in the comics genre, and it makes me nutso.
This explains my under-four-star rating, and honestly the wide-open place the book stops felt like a cheat not an ending, so permaybehaps I won't be on to book seven.… (mais)
Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
Steve Burrows' Birder Murder Mysteries are up there with the very best the genre has to offer: intricate plotting; complicated, flawed characters; long arcs of narrative and characterization. A Foreboding of Petrels is, in my estimation, the best book yet in this series. Relationships between characters grow complex, new tensions emerge, the central mysteries remain whodunnits until the end. If you're familiar with this series, you'll know why I'm so delighted to have a new DCI Dominic Jejeune novel to read. If you're not, this is The. One. Series. you need to make room for in your reading agenda.
DCI Dominic Jejeune is on suspension as A Foreboding of Petrels opens, waiting to hear whether he'll be able to return to work and, if so, under what conditions. He does have one puzzle to wrestle with—a long-distance investigation of a death at an Antarctic research station. The local billionaire running the climate change organization that the research station is part of wants to confirm that the death was a suicide.
At the same time, DS Danny Maik, one of Jejeune's colleagues on the local force, is investigating a series of small arson events involving bird blinds scattered along the marshy coast. With Jejeune on suspension, Maik can't call on Jejeune to help him puzzle out the reason underlying the arsons, which may be nothing more than a series of pranks by local teens.
When a birding friend of Jejeune's—a blind man with an exceptional ear for bird calls—is found dead in one of the burned blinds, the two men start seeking ways to collaborate that won't violate the terms of Jejeune's suspensions. Or at least ways of collaborating that won't draw the attention of higher ups.
As the plot thickens and suspects multiply, Jejeune and Maik find themselves wondering if there's a connection between these deaths by fire and by ice.
I received a free electronic review copy of this title from the publisher via EdelweissPlus; the opinions are my own.… (mais)
DCI Dominic Jejeune is on suspension as A Foreboding of Petrels opens, waiting to hear whether he'll be able to return to work and, if so, under what conditions. He does have one puzzle to wrestle with—a long-distance investigation of a death at an Antarctic research station. The local billionaire running the climate change organization that the research station is part of wants to confirm that the death was a suicide.
At the same time, DS Danny Maik, one of Jejeune's colleagues on the local force, is investigating a series of small arson events involving bird blinds scattered along the marshy coast. With Jejeune on suspension, Maik can't call on Jejeune to help him puzzle out the reason underlying the arsons, which may be nothing more than a series of pranks by local teens.
When a birding friend of Jejeune's—a blind man with an exceptional ear for bird calls—is found dead in one of the burned blinds, the two men start seeking ways to collaborate that won't violate the terms of Jejeune's suspensions. Or at least ways of collaborating that won't draw the attention of higher ups.
As the plot thickens and suspects multiply, Jejeune and Maik find themselves wondering if there's a connection between these deaths by fire and by ice.
I received a free electronic review copy of this title from the publisher via EdelweissPlus; the opinions are my own.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Membros
- 504
- Popularidade
- #49,151
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 61
- ISBN
- 61
Again, the writing is great, and the stories pieced together in typical Domenic Jejeune – and the greater Saltmarsh Division of the North Norfolk Constabulary – fashion, but there also seemed like a great deal of introspection by all the characters, abnormally so, that I did't believe added much other than length and tedium.… (mais)