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Carregando... A Welcome Grave (2007)de Michael Koryta
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  Natt90 | Feb 27, 2023 |   Il est heureux que Michael Koryta, jeune auteur talentueux de 27 ans, ait délaissé les codes du polar américain actuel - noirceur, violence - pour se tourner vers les ambiances des années 1940-1950. Car Une tombe accueillante, qui rappelle les romans de James Cain, est une réussite : récit tendu, suspense, personnages charnus. Au premier rang desquels le privé Lincoln Perry, témoin d'un meurtre et rapidement classé suspect principal. Et plus les pages défilent, plus les choses vont mal pour ce pauvre Perry, qui creuse sa tombe avec une belle constance. Schéma classique de l'innocent pris dans un engrenage, mais que Koryta dessine avec un sens parfait du rebondissement. C'est d'autant plus efficace - il est permis de lire ce roman d'une traite - que le cauchemar de Perry se situe dans un quotidien réaliste, ce qui n'est pas sans apporter une bonne dose d'effroi supplémentaire. —L'Express > Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Koryta-Une-tombe-accueillante/123764 > BAnQ (La presse, 30 juil. 2009) : https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2264689 Joop-le-philosophe | Feb 11, 2021 | This was the first book I read by Koryta and I bought it because I got interested in the book after reading the text on the back of the book. The story was quite good, it all happened really fast. But what I didn't really liked was that he uses Thor to get out of all his troubles. Together with what I read about his other books, this happened before. Looks like the main character can't cope with his own problems. The story was nice to read, though. (  ) Floratina | May 26, 2016 | buffalogr | Apr 26, 2015 | SuziQoregon | Mar 31, 2013 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Pertence à sérieLincoln Perry (3) Prêmios
Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
HTML: Sometime after midnight, on a moonless October night turned harsh by a fine, windswept rain, one of the men I liked least in the world was murdered in a field near Bedford, just south of the city...The detectives went looking for suspectsâ??people whose histories with Jefferson were adversarial and hostile. At the top of that list, they found me. So begins A Welcome Grave, the third novel by award-winning mystery writer Michael Koryta featuring private investigator Lincoln Perry. Once a rising star on the Cleveland police force, Perry ended his career when he left one of the city's prominent attorneys, Alex Jefferson, bleeding in the parking lot of his country clubâ??retribution for his affair with Perry's fiancée. Now Jefferson is dead, the victim of a brutal murder, and his widow has called upon Perry for a favor he knows he shouldn't grant but can't turn down: to find Jefferson's estranged son, partial beneficiary of the dead man's fortune. The case is simple enough, a routine "locate," and he'll be paid plenty of money for the work. The encounter should be simple, too: a brief exchange of information and maybe an empty condolence before Perry gets back into his truck and returns home. Instead, he's loaded into a police car and taken to a rural jail while Jefferson's son is zipped into a body bag. Perry soon learns that Jefferson's millions are the target of a thirst for revenge that hasn't been satisfied by blood. As a pair of deadly assailants push deep into the investigator's life, they bring with them police from two states who are determined to see Perry in jail. Building on the skill that prompted the Toronto Sun to call him "one of America's best young mystery writers," Michael Koryta makes A Welcome Grave an intense exploration of the lengths to which a desperate man is forced to go to clear his name and solve a crime. This is a thrilling new book that justifies the critical acclaim and solidifies his role as an emerging talent among today's top write Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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La cosa se complica cuando la propia viuda insiste en que sea Perry quien se encargue de localizar al hijo perdido de Jefferson, heredero de la fortuna de su padre. Un encargo de lo más rutinario que resulta no serlo cuando el hijo aparece muerto. Para entonces, Lincoln ya ha comprendido que el caso es mucho más complicado de lo que parece y, con la policÃa de dos estados pisándole los talones, tendrá que demostrar su inocencia y resolver el caso.