Joan Druett
Autor(a) de Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
About the Author
Joan Druett's previous books have won many awards, including a New York Public Library Book to Remember citation, a John Lyman Award for Best Book of American Maritime History, and the Kendall Whaling Museum's L. Byrne Waterman Award
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Séries
Obras por Joan Druett
The Notorious Captain Hayes: The Remarkable True Story of The Pirate of The Pacific (2016) 12 exemplares
The Sailing Circle: 19th Century Seafaring Women from New York (Three Village Historian) (1995) 2 exemplares
Eleanor's Odyssey: Journal of the Captain's Wife on the East Indiaman Friendship, 1799-1801 (2014) 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1939-04-11
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Aotearoa / New Zealand
New Zealand - Local de nascimento
- Nelson, New Zealand
- Locais de residência
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Educação
- Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- Ocupações
- maritime historian
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 32
- Membros
- 1,627
- Popularidade
- #15,814
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 70
- ISBN
- 99
- Línguas
- 1
- Marcado como favorito
- 3
At the outset, Wiki is waiting for an appointment by a river when he is surprised by someone shooting. He sees a dead woman in a boat, and drags her to shore. When the sheriff arrives, Wiki is the immediate suspect, but is soon cleared. As the expedition departs, the sheriff deputises Wiki to continue the investigation to find out if the woman's killer is on board.
I enjoyed this story. It reminded me of the Aubrey-Maturin novels, only with a murder mystery at its hear. Druett seems to have done her research very well, with none of the clangers you sometimes get in historical fiction. As a mystery, it also worked quite well too, with a few twists and red herrings, and a decidedly original protagonist.… (mais)