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Carregando... Death of the Partyde Carolyn Hart
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. When Britt Barlow walks into Max Darling's investigative agency and asks for his help snaring a murderer he urges her to go to the police. When she refuses Max, and his mystery book store owner wife Annie, head to Britt's private island off the coast of South Carolina where she has arranged a weekend party to identify who murdered media magnate Jeremiah Addison on the island the previous year. The party guests, a few friends, family and colleagues of Addison's, were all on the island at the time of his murder and Britt says one of them is the murderer. The book is a variation on the house-full-of-possible-murderers story that's been written many times before. It has a bunch of angst-ridden people with a range of guilty secrets: children angry with parents, wives who suspect their husbands and journalists prying into everything. The book is suspenseful enough, with false leads and red-herrings a-plenty, but offers nothing particularly unique and I suspect if you ask me a specific question about the it in a month or two I won't be able to remember enough to answer you. This is the 16th book in Hart's Death on Demandseries, named for the bookshop run by Annie Darling, and the 9th I've read. I normally rather enjoy the references to mystery writers and crime fiction books that pepper the stories but this one didn't contain many of those and it was also lacking the humour evident in the earlier novels. In fact I found the characters, including Annie and Max, a bit too schmaltzy and earnest for my liking on this outing. Although they're not my favourite kind of crime fiction I do like the occasional 'cosy' mystery for light relief after spending time with serial killers and brooding detectives but I think I'll look elsewhere next time I'm in the mood for a light-hearted read. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Pertence à sérieDeath on Demand (16)
Britt Barlow is certain her media mogul brother-in-law Jeremiah Addison's fatal tumble a year ago was no accident -- especially since she herself discovered, and disposed of, the trip wire someone had strung across the stairs. Now she's bringing all who were in attendance that weekend back to Golden Silk -- Addison's luxurious secluded island estate -- and inviting two extra guests, Annie and Max Darling, to help uncover a killer. Annie Darling wouldn't miss this party for the world! And there certainly is no lack of suspects among the guests, each of whom had a substantial motive for doing in the insufferable tycoon. But the party turns deadly when a houseman mysteriously vanishes, along with the boats which are the only escape off Addison's island -- leaving the Darlings stranded on a floating rock in the middle of nowhere, too close to a solution for comfort, and stalked by a crafty murderer. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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couldn't figure out who the murderer was, just like Annie and Max. Definitely a twist at the end. ( )