Wilma Kahn
Autore di Big Black Hole
Opere di Wilma Kahn
Big Black Hole 2 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Kahn, Wilma Jean
- Altri nomi
- Kahn, Wilma J.
- Data di nascita
- 1950-07-30
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
- Breve biografia
- For six years Wilma Kahn headed up Triad of Kalamazoo County, a senior-safety organization. She taught older adults how to avoid becoming victims of fraud; trained law-enforcement officers in how to recognize and communicate with persons who have Alzheimer s disease; wrote a quarterly safety newsletter; and edited safety-tips booklets. She currently teaches writing classes for older adults in Kalamazoo County, where she volunteers for the Alzheimer s Association, Michigan Great Lakes Chapter.
Utenti
Recensioni
Statistiche
- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 14
- Popolarità
- #739,559
- Voto
- 2.0
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 2
- Preferito da
- 1
When I read the blurb, I was interested because it's set in Michigan. However, as I began reading the book, my enthusiasm waned, I think in part because the author decided to create a completely fictional Michigan. I don't mind authors creating fictional towns, but it seems to me if they are going to talk at length about the counties within a state, they should at least use the correct names. I kept being distracted by references to "Van Burgen County" and "Collingwood County." This is a picky detail which probably wouldn't bother anyone from Michigan, but it detracted from my enjoyment.
The plot involves a female P.I. who is hired by a man to investigate the locked room suicide of his sister. The P.I. takes a position as a home-health aide in the house where the death occurred, despite having no skills or training. She gets into various scrapes, some involving the family and some outside, all leading her to conclude that it was murder, not suicide. Her family is brought into the mix briefly, mostly as a distraction, I think; their presence certainly didn't move the plot along. In the end, she returns to her home town with a personal protection order against her barring her from seeing the deceased woman's family, a suspended driver's license, an effort to revoke her P.I license, and the killer still on the loose. It is all wrapped up in the end, rather messily, but in a rather abrupt fashion.
I found this book on the paperback exchange rack at our local library, and I think it's going back there the first chance I get, unlike some books I've found on there and kept, putting a different one in their place. It just wasn't all that good.… (altro)