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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Lady in Shadows: A Madeleine Karno Mysterydi Lene Kaaberbøl
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. I wanted to like this book. In fact, I tried to read it twice but got stuck somewhere in the second or third hour of the audiobook. I'm not sure exactly why I did not want to finish it; I just know that I was not enjoying it. I thought at first it was my mood at the time, because I loved the first book in the Madeleine Karno series (Doctor Death). This one, though, left me cold. I'll try one more time, because I feel I should enjoy it, even if the subject matter is pretty dark and triggering. Still, that never usually bothers me, It's just the character of Madeleine herself, I think, and the slow telling of the story.In 1894 Varbourg, France Madeleine Karno assists her father as a forensic pathologist ands is called out one morning to inspect a mutilated female body. An interesting historical mystery, not that difficult to reason the guilty party, but really couldn't get engaged with the characters. A NetGalley Book Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. This was an interesting murder mystery set in 1894 Vaubourg, France. The writing was well suited for a late nineteenth century story. The character of protagonist Madeleine Karnot was well developed, whereas that of other characters was not done quite as well. The setting of scene was rather bare bones. What strikes the reader is the graphic nature of horror described and the passion of the female protagonist to solve the murders of various discarded women. She was as a dog with a bone whereas the men in leadership roles were less than interested and found her tenacity rather annoying. I found the the narratives of the several deaths rather confusing. Perhaps, reading the written word might have made it a bit easier to follow the story's thread. Regardless, Nicola Barber did a spectacular job of reading this story and beautifully rendered varying voices for the dialogue of the various characters. Her French was lovely. However, her German would have benefited from some coaching. Triggers: graphic murder scenes, graphic sexual scenes, misogyny I am grateful to HighBridge Audio for having provided a complimentary copy of this audiobook. Their generosity, however, did not influence this review - the words of which are mine alone. France 1894 a woman is found murdered w/ her abdomen slashed... Which leads to the question is there another Ripper running around. Madeline Karno, is an highly intelligent young woman who helps her father with his medical practice & autopsies. She is admitted to the University in hopes of becoming a doctor, but instead they move her to the Physiology classes, where she encounters the former male lover of her fiancée and an odd acting professor. As Madeline investigates the murder of the dead woman, she learns that the woman was pregnant and both her womb & fetus are missing. She also discovers that many of the free-living prostitutes in the city are being treated every-other-day with so called syphilis treatments, that turn out to be anything but. I read the book through, but was not entranced with the characters, they seemed rather flat and boring. The narratives were boring as well... nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"New York Times bestselling author Lene Kaaberbøl returns with her beloved protagonist Madeleine Karno--an ambitious young woman who shatters the confines of nineteenth century France as she struggles to become the first female forensic pathologist and hunt down what appears to be a Jack the Ripper copycat. On June 2nd, 1894, in the wake of President Marie Francois Sadi Carnot's assassination, France descends into chaos and riots in the streets of Varbourg. Many lives are lost in the mayhem, but when one lady of the night is found murdered with brutal incisions and no sign of a struggle, it is clear something is amiss. Madeleine Karno, the tenacious protagonist from Doctor Death, must ask herself the terrifying question: Do they have their very own Jack the Ripper in France? Madeleine is no stranger to cases such as this. Though she is a woman in forensic pathology (a career that is considered unseemly even for a man), her recent work with a string of mysterious deaths has earned her some semblance of respect--she has even become the first female student to gain admission to the University of Varbourg. But there's only so much her physiology courses can do to help her uncover the mysteries of a mad scientist's brutal murders. Madeleine must do whatever it takes--investigate the darkest corners of the city and even work under cover--to track down a murderer at large. But if there's one thing the press has right about "Mademoiselle Death," it's this: it takes a woman to find a killer of women"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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