Sam Wiebe
Autor(a) de Vancouver Noir
About the Author
Image credit: Vancouver Sun
Séries
Obras de Sam Wiebe
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Canada
- Locais de residência
- Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
- Ocupação
- writer
Writer in Residence, Vancouver Public Library - Pequena biografia
- Sam Wiebe's Last of the Independents won an Arthur Ellis Award for Best Unpublished First Novel. His prize-winning crime fiction has been published internationally. Recent projects include audio adaptations of Hamlet and Frankenstein, an independent film script, and a follow-up novel. He lives in Vancouver.
Membros
Resenhas
Sunset and Jericho: A Wakeland Novel (Wakeland, 4) de Sam Wiebe
The plot twists are a stretch, but the characters, as always, are nuanced and sympathetic. Recommended for all libraries.
Very solid, very hardboiled, modern detective story told in classic first-person. The author does a fine job of laying out a couple of compelling mysteries and showing the dogged determination and sometimes inventiveness of a young private eye in solving them. The detective does come across as a little too experienced and world-weary for his stated age and background. But I just visualized him as older. This is one of several rough edges exhibited by this first novel, but none detracted from the story. Very enjoyable, if you like your stories dark and gritty and your detectives morally ambiguous.… (mais)
Esta resenha foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Resenhistas do LibraryThing.Lots of really good short stories that take place in Vancouver. Sadly, I'm not really familiar with all of the authors, but I definitely enjoyed everything. I need to look up other works by the authors featured.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 184
- Popularidade
- #117,736
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 35
- ISBNs
- 39
