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Carregando... Faces in the Pool (2008)de Jonathan Gash
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Pertence à sérieLovejoy (book 24)
When Lovejoy is wrongfully imprisoned--again--he's offered a way out with a catch. In exchange for his freedom, he agrees to a marriage of convenience to divorced millionairess, Laura Moon, as a way to help her hunt down her former husband. Sensing murderous vengeance in the air, Lovejoy intends to abscond when he can, but instead goes along with it at the insistence of his apprentice, Lydia and his teenage son, Mortimer. Lovejoy is evasive, but the deaths of his old forger friend, Smethie, and transvestite Paltry compel him to concede. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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This is the most recent Lovejoy book, published in 2008, and since the author turns 80 this year I guess it may well be the last. (Though not for me; eleven down, thirteen to go.) It is a rather confused affair; an older Lovejoy, more narcissistic than ever, gets swept up in a massively weird conspiracy by the stranded dregs of colonialism (who of course tend to have retained fantastically valuable antiques). As well as Lovejoy's East Anglia base, we get taken to various parts of England with a climactic scene off the coast of Blackpool. Lovejoy turns out to have a son who has inherited his gift of divvying (the supernatural ability to detect genuine antiques) and is the most memorable new character in the book; also, remarkably, his long-suffering apprentice Lydia develops a sudden burst of characterisation, not that it does her much good. And Lovejoy manages to bed pretty much every female character over the age of consent, though not very explicitly. I won't recommend this as a book to start reading the series with; though it seems that this is where it finishes. ( )