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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Chelsea Strangler: The Eleventh Thomas Chaloner Adventure (Adventures of Thomas Chaloner) (originale 2015; edizione 2016)di Susanna Gregory (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaThe Chelsea Strangler di Susanna Gregory (2015)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I have been reading this series in order, this being the 11th and most recent one. Obviously I must like these tales if I keep reading them. On the whole I enjoyed this one a little more than a few of the other recent ones. I got the impression that Gregory's writing has become a bit tighter. The pace is a bit quicker and there are fewer digressions and lags in the pace, it just seems to have a better focus. Otherwise, there are a lot of similarities to her other books, especially the endings which are consistently frenetic with lots of people involved in a chaotic battle. The other common theme across all these books is that there are very few honest, intelligent people in Gregory's world. Most of them are either totally stupid, crooked or both. Lots of arrogant buffoons and borderline insane people, both good and evil, but a good read nonetheless. A good theme in this one is the whole question of who can you really trust when a lot of money is at stake? Also, lots of real history in the background - the plague of the mid 1660's forcing people to leave London, some real characters fictionalised and some current issues like the war between England and Holland. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieThomas Chaloner (11)
In the sapping summer heat of 1665 there is little celebration in London of the naval victory at the Battle of Lowestoft. The King, his retinue and anyone with sufficient means has fled the plague-ridden city, its half-deserted streets echoing to the sound of bells tolling the mounting number of deaths. Those who remain clutch doubtful potions to ward off the relentless disease and dart nervously past shuttered buildings, watchful for the thieves who risk their lives to plunder what has been left behind. At Chelsea, a rural backwater by the river, with fine mansions leased to minor members of the Court avoiding the capital, there are more immediate concerns: the government has commandeered the theological college to house Dutch prisoners of war and there are daily rumours that those sailors are on the brink of escaping. Moreover, a vicious strangler is stalking the neighbourhood. Thomas Chaloner is sent to investigate the murder of the first victim, an inmate of a private sanatorium known as Gorges. There have been thefts there as well, but the few facts he gleans from inmates and staff are contradictory and elusive. He realises, though, that Gorges has stronger links to the prison than just proximity, and that the influx of strangers offers plenty of camouflage for a killer - a killer who has no compunction about turning on those determined to stop his murderous rampage. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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