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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Not terrible, but pretty light. Not a series I’ll look at again. ( ) I enjoyed the book, and I certainly intend to read the next. I love the fact that this is set in a time and place not usually used in English language mysteries. I am what someone once called an anthropological mystery reader, that it someone most attracted to mysteries set in a time or place different from my own. I also like that Beatrice, while generally a strong person, has her moments of weakness or despair, without having, as is so common today, some ghastly problem that renders her either difficult to like or implausible as a successful character. The plot, characterization, and setting, as she worked on the two mysteries, were extremely rich and and satisfying. It was wonderful following Beatrice around. What I found disappointing, is that in the end, I didn't really understand what the point of all this was. It wasn't bad enough to ruin the story for me, just bewildering. Sins For The Father (Disclaimer: received an Advanced Reader’s Copy of the book through Net Galley. Read it and decided to provide my honest review.) Sins of the Father, A Countess of Prague Mystery #2 by Stephen Weeks is a conundrum. The author Stephen Weeks is superb at both character and world building with exacting and flowing dialogue, as wrapping paper on a gift, reflective of 19th century Prussia. The book’s main character is exquisitely complex. She is a fiercely independent woman treading, not lightly, in a non-traditional role as sleuth. There is a moment where she is ruminating about a case and thinks “...this was meant to remain some kind of insoluble mystery — but they hadn’t reckoned on me, obviously!” Yet, there are moments where she allows her womanhood to consume her as a coping mechanism. Together formed a formidable main character. The storyline itself had me perplexed and vacillating on the rating — while interesting there were several times I found myself wandering off. The history at times was just too much and it became more a history class than a historical mystery. Overall, the mystery/thriller is a good read. The question is, how much history do you like in your historical mysteries? MY RECOMMENDATION: Neutral. – Tex. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Beatrix von Falklenburg, the childless wife of an impoverished and, it must be said, neglectful, Count, was living the life of a Prague socialite when a murder involving her elderly uncle pulled her into the orbit of Edward VII of England and the German Kaiser. And into that of a Prague police inspector, as well as into a deeper interaction with her unflappable butler, Müller, and her lady's maid, Sabine. All of which is recounted in The Countess of Prague. Her role in that 1904 investigation has brought her to the attention of the Hapsburg Emperor Franz Josef I, who has her summoned to his palace in Vienna. There he tasks her with probing the "murder/suicide" in 1889 at Crown Prince Rudolf's hunting lodge at Mayerling and looking for possible papers that might contain revealing information or evidence of what happened there. Did Rudolf murder Baroness Marie Vetsera and shoot himself? And might there remain something that would reveal "the dreaded secret" that could topple the Hapsburg dynasty, as rumor had long hinted? Something that has survived to 1905? But before Trixie is handed her assignment, a terrible murder occurs on a snowy Prague funicular railway. Inspector Schneider pulls her away from a night at the opera to the crime scene. The only clue to the identity of the decapitated corpse is a tiny slip of paper in his waistcoat pocket - a piece of paper with Trixie's telephone number on it. Thus she becomes involved in what proves to be the murder of the Great Orsini, Master Illusionist, and in what follows. It's an investigation she cannot drop, despite her mission for her Emperor. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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