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A carregar... Played to Death: A Scott Drayco Mystery (Scott Drayco Mystery Series Book 1) (edição 2014)por BV Lawson
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I had trouble keeping some of the threads straight, but the clues were all there and the solution was more than satisfactory. ( ) When a former client gives Scott Drayco an Opera House in Cape Unity, he arranges to meet his next client there. Unfortunately he finds him dead with a letter G carved unto his body. Quite a few people have a motive, and is there any connection to Konstantina Klucze, a polish pianist who played at the House, or to the other murders which occur. Drayco's inner demons aren't afraid to bubble up close to the surface and wrap their tendrils around his mind, but he does a pretty good job of keeping himself calm and steady on the surface--a good skill to have when you're a former member of the FBI turned crime consultant who's just inherited an abandoned, derelict Opera House with--what else--a dead body inside. There are lots of twists and turns in this one, as people from a past mostly forgotten have a way of making their voices heard, and the deeper Drayco digs, the more the past and present intertwine. I had a little difficulty keeping the cast of characters straight in my head at first, but I enjoyed figuring out who the killer is even though I initially had the wrong motivation. There's a bit more blood than I'm used to since I generally stick to cozies, but there's by no means over-the-top gore. Well-written and engaging thriller. The protagonist, Scott Drayco, has a chequered background - ex-concert pianist, ex-FBI - and is now an independent investigator. I like the way the author feeds information about Drayco gradually and relevantly while maintaining the energy of the novel. The story opens with Drayco going to meet a new client at a white elephant of an opera house which Drayco has just inherited from a previous client. His intended brief visit turns into an extended stay when he finds the body of his client lying on the stage, and is drawn into investigating his murder. One of the areas that makes this book stand out is the quality of the characterisation. There are no cliched cardboard cut-outs. Each is a real person in his or her own right, with their own desires and needs, hidden or overt. They inhabit a small town where secrets are hard to keep and easy to embroider. Because it is a closed in world, quite a few people come under suspicion, but the ending came as a total surprise to me. I very much enjoyed this book, and look forward to reading more by this author. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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A body in a rundown Opera House. Simmering resentment in a small Virginia coastal town. A missing manuscript. A dark family secret. Former piano prodigy-turned F.B.I. agent Scott Drayco is still suffering nightmares from his last case as a private consultant. To add insult to injury, he's bequeathed an unwanted and rundown Opera House in Cape Unity, a down-on-its-luck seaside village where vacation homes were once a playground for the rich. His hopes for a quick sale are dashed when a new client with dreams of his own redemption is murdered in the Opera House, the letter ??G? mockingly carved into his chest. Working with a wary Sheriff, Drayco has to navigate a complicated maze of illicit love affairs and hostility over immigration and coastal development. Drayco's confidence in his decision-making abilities is shaken when the flirtatious and lonely wife of a Town Councilman almost derails Drayco??s efforts with attempts to seduce him, despite the fact she had an affair with the victim. One mystery soon turns to two, as Drayco learns of a famous Polish pianist whose last concert was at the Opera House 50 years ago ?? and was murdered after returning home. Slowly, inevitably, Drayco gets pulled into a tangled scheme of jealousy and betrayal that reaches across the Atlantic into some of the darkest days of human history. But will he be able to untangle the web before the tensions in Cape Unity explode into more violence and he becomes the Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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