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Carregando... The Kiss Murder (2003)de Mehmet Murat Somer
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Abandoned about half way through. The cover is fantastic. This was a slog and I sometimes had to wonder if I was really reading a mystery novel. Once I got halfway through, saw that it was supposed to be hilarious. I hadn't seen anything that looked like a joke.... And it didn't really feel like she was investigating anything really. There didn't seem to be all that much stakes and I couldn't work out why someone who was being paid to be a white hat hacker wasn't using those skills to investigate this stuff. Cover's fantastic though. A Turkish drag queen hunts for a killer among those at her club. Our heroine is a computer guy by day, drag queen at night. When performer Buse is found dead, and it looks like blackmail, our hero is on the case. Fully dressed, most often like Audrey Hepburn. The story relies heavily on this unnamed protagonist's efforts to be gorgeous at all times, and almost all of her thoughts focus on herself. She shows a little sympathy for the dead but damn. It gets tiresome. I think too much of an effort was made to highlight the drag queen humor and too little in the development of a plot. Good effort, interesting setting, but I just didn't like her. Among other things, she struggled with whether to call Buse by her chosen name or by her birth name, usually referring to her as Buse/Fevzi. Just call her what she wanted to be called. Is it that hard? I do wish I could do .5 with Goodreads. I'm a very grey girl in my thinking. And this is definitely more than a 2. . . I read this book as part of my investigation of world mystery writing. Set off by Wallender and the Girl with the Dragon Tatoo. Interested in world detectives (after all I think it's arguable that Dickens and Wilkie Collins were there at the birth of the detectie). And here we have a Turkish (Instanbul) detective who is computer wiz by day, cross-dresser diva running a club at night. Who wouldn't read at least one. It's always difficult with translations to know what of the clunkiness in the writing was there at the beginning and how much is the translation. There was something very clunky about the prose and plotting of this novel. But the entry into a world I would never have imagined in contemporary Turkey was intriguing. And this is only one book in a fairly extensive series. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Late one night, our glamour-puss nightclub manager receives a visit from Buse. For many years, Buse has kept letters and photos of a compromising nature, from a former relationship with a powerful lover. But her apartment has been ransacked and Buse worries about the consequences.Being an obliging sort, our detective agrees to help out, but what initially appears to be a personal favour turns out to have repercussions that run much deeper. When the web of intrigue reveals that an arch-conservative politician and maybe even the Mafia are involved, it's time for our private eye to send out an urgent SOS via the underground Istanbul grapevine. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)894.3534Literature Literature of other languages Altaic, Finno-Ugric, Uralic and Dravidian languages Turkic languages Turkish Turkish fiction 2000–Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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A fascinating narrator and some very funny scenes in this thriller set in an interesting milieu. Unfortunately the font in this ebook was unable to cope with Turkish diacritics, which was distracting at times. ( )