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Michael Hartland

Autor(a) de Down Among the Dead Men

13+ Works 105 Membros 4 Reviews

About the Author

Includes the name: Ruth Carrington

Disambiguation Notice:

(nor) Michael Hartland and Ruth Carrington are pseudonyms of Michael Leonard James.

(eng) Michael Hartland and Ruth Carrington are pseudonyms of Michael James.

Séries

Obras de Michael Hartland

Down Among the Dead Men (1983) 31 cópias
Seven Steps to Treason (1984) 23 cópias
Dead Fish (1998) 16 cópias
The Third Betrayal (1987) 15 cópias
The Year of the Scorpion (1991) 8 cópias
Frontier of Fear (1989) 5 cópias
O Leste é Vermelho 1 exemplar(es)
Skorpionit 1 exemplar(es)
De vijfde man 1 exemplar(es)
Het grenskomplot (1990) 1 exemplar(es)
Great Guns of Barbados (2009) 1 exemplar(es)
Kolmas petos (1989) 1 exemplar(es)
Fausse piste (POLICIERS) (1999) 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

The Verdict of Us All (2006) — Contribuinte — 21 cópias

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome padrão
Hartland, Michael
Nome de batismo
James, Michael Leonard
Outros nomes
Hartland, Michael
Carrington, Ruth
Data de nascimento
1941-02-07
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
UK
Ocupação
British government official
author
broadcaster
journalist
Aviso de desambiguação
Michael Hartland and Ruth Carrington are pseudonyms of Michael James.

Membros

Resenhas

Dead Fish is a gripping Crime novel that chronicles the arrest and trial of Geoffrey Quinn, devoted father, husband, and former surgeon. Quinn is accused of killing his wife and children, and most seem to judge him as guilty, except for his amazing lawyer, Alison, who on first meeting Quinn, believes in his claim to innocence.

There were two characters that gained my genuine sympathy throughout the novel- Quinn and Alison. Quinn appears lost, confused, and mostly afraid as his life literally hangs in the balance.
On the other hand, Alison was easy to sympathise with, the more the story delved into her past. Tragic experiences with loved ones (and the sudden, unexpected loss of them) plague her every thought, making Alison a complex and rather intriguing character.

Many secrets are unearthed in this high-stakes tale. I won’t go into examples as I’d hate to spoil the book for others. However, the acts I was reading about shocked me to my core. This is definitely a story I’ll remember.

I’d definitely consider reading Dead Fish again at some point. ^_^
My kind of novel.

I’d recommend it to lovers of crime and thrillers.

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Daxmunro | 1 outra resenha | Dec 31, 2018 |
It's a mystery novel with the word fish in the title that has Spoiler red herrings in it and you have no idea how happy that makes me as someone who likes puns. So I'm going to giggle off here in the corner for a few minutes before moving on with my review.

Okay. Giggling done.

So we have a pretty standard British murder mystery book, a re-release from the 1998. A doctor finds out he's being tried for the murder of his wife, his children are missing, he claims he is innocent, and then the scrappy female police officer has to save the day! The book then veers off into a whole side investigation before a Spoiler twist ending. I'm not generally a fan of twist endings (too much building up an emotional rapport between readers and characters before the story is like Aha! I'm smarter than you!), but this one wasn't so bad. Maybe it was because it wasn't all about being cleverer than the reader, although I doubt one could have figured it out on one's own. I'm rarely surprised by plots anymore, so maybe I'm softening towards twist endings. Who knows? The investigation was compelling too -- not that it had much to do in style, tone, or content, but it reminded me of Donna Tartt's The Little Friend, wherein you don't really realize how far you've floated away from the story catalyst for quite some time (I guess until the twist). Bobbing along on a floaty in the ocean, only to look up and realize that the shore is no longer in sight (need some water analogies because of the fish title).

So decent potboiler mystery novel to read during a lazy summer.

Back to giggling about fish and red herrings (you don't even want to know how much I laughed about the fish statue from the In Auction in The Ersatz Elevator).

Dead Fish by Ruth Carrington went on sale March 29, 2018.

I received a copy free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
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reluctantm | 1 outra resenha | Aug 13, 2018 |
Michael Hartland was a complete unknown to me until I downloaded Down Among the Dead Men from Audiobooksforfree.com.
This novel is an excellent Le Carré type spy novel set during the Carter administration and explains the Chinese invasion/incursion into Vietnam in the late seventies. To say too much more would give away the surprise ending.
David Nairn is Ben Foo’s British controller. Foo is a Chinese British agent based in Hong Kong. One of his agents has been killed while trying to reveal some important information related to Lin, a mysterious man who has ostensible connections with the Taipei regime. The British send Ruth, an inexperienced agent to Hong Kong to shadow Lin and soon a bizarre connection is revealed between Anna Levshina, a Russian KGB agent named Golovkin, a secretive KGB major general Kirov and Lin. They all appeared together in a photo taken in Vietnam during the fifties in the war against the French. Nairn manipulates Ruth and the other players in an attempt to discover a connection that is ultimately revealed to be a plot to obtain atomic weapons by the Taiwanese government. But as in all good spy novels, nothing is ever what it appears to be.… (mais)
 
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ecw0647 | Sep 30, 2013 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
13
Also by
1
Membros
105
Popularidade
#183,191
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Resenhas
4
ISBNs
50
Idiomas
8

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