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Carregando... A Charitable Body (2012)de Robert Barnard
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A rather odd mystery in which most of the investigation of a building put in a charitable trust and the families who were previous owners takes place before a body every appears. Interesting twists. Charles and Felicity Peace are a nice couple, ( ) Phew, this is slow going. Robert Barnard is practically an auto-buy for me, but so far this one looks like a miss. I don't mind mysteries that don't have a murder, as long as there's something compelling going on, but so far the only thing resembling a puzzle is the question of why the head of a museum board fired the last historian. (I may have the job details wrong, because board politics of any kind bore me silly.) Robert, I beg you, make this interesting. This book is the first one of Robert Barnard's that I've read. Grabbed two more at the library after getting half way through this one. Lots of nice plot turns about a large estate house being run by a trust with a slight mystery involved. Didn't care for the ending as it left me with some questions left. However, I did enjoy the characters and will read another of his books. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Pertence à sérieCharlie Peace (12)
"Robert Barnard, the internationally acclaimed Diamond Dagger-winning crime writer, dissects family bonds at their best and worst in this stunning novel of suspense. What an honor--to become trustee of an English stately home museum. Yorkshire Detective Inspector Charlie Peace's wife, Felicity, is initially thrilled when she's asked to join the board that oversees Walbrook Manor, an eighteenth-century mansion that's now part of a charitable trust. She's in for some surprises. With its shabby salons and drafty hallways, Walbrook shows signs of the financial burden it caused its recent owners, members of the related Quarles and Fiennes families, known more for feuds than for affectionate familial ties. They are known also for shadowy intrigues, great and small, some of which may emerge now that Walbrook and its archives are open to the public. The revelations could be devastating and dangerous. Rupert Fiennes and Sir Stafford Quarles represent two lines of Walbrook's lords of the manor. Rupert seems relieved to have relinquished the estate to charitable hands, while Sir Stafford clings with perhaps unseemly pride to his position as chairman of the Walbrook Manor Trust Board. A tentative peace reigns, but when the wreck of a car and the remains of a body turn up in a nearby lake, it soon becomes clear that one of Walbrook's grimmest secrets may date to the years between the two world wars and may involve something much worse than mere malice. With police resources focused on more timely cases, Charlie and Felicity are left to discover that old sins are never forgotten, that "family" means more than a slot on the ancestral tree, and that sometimes there can be a good reason for murder. Suspenseful, witty, and, as always, superbly insightful, A Charitable Body shows acclaimed master of mystery Robert Barnard at his clever best"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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