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Sto caricando le informazioni... Reunion with Deathdi Sheila Connolly
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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 read Connolly's County Cork Mystery series and liked it very much. I thought I would try this title as well. I enjoyed it and (just like her Irish series) liked the interweaving of Connolly's own experiences and travel with the plot of Reunion with death. The characters and plot were very plausible and, though on the light side, made for some fun reading. The place descriptions were what made this book for me - I could imagine myself traveling and sightseeing (and eating!) in northwest Italy. If you like a good, light mystery, travel and food and friendships, I think you will enjoy this title. It took me awhile to get into this book, there is a lot of beautiful Italian background that came before the actual story did. This story is about Laura, a forty something gal who decides to go on a class reunion trip to Italy with 40 class mates she hasn't seen or talked to in about as many years. This will be more of a relaxing vacation than anything else she tells herself. All the ladies are staying at a Villa that is hosting a talk with professor Anthony Gilbert who taught all the gals back in the day and until recently still taught at Wellsley where they all went to school. When this handsome yet, now elderly professor turns up dead, many of Laura's classmates seem to have hurt feelings about affairs of the heart that went on may years ago with this charming man. Laura and her high school chum Cynthia decide to become detectives and find out what really is going on with this class trip of brokenhearts and just maybe a killer who did in the aging romeo. This book is a wonderful snapshot of Italy, the author paints a wonderful picture of what the actual trip might have been like as well as what it might have yasted like! This is a mystery without violence or ugly language, an enjoyable read. Connolly’s descriptions of the various parts of Italy they visited are fantastic and made me want to go there immediately! Secondly, I want to eat all the food they ate. Because the characters are middle-aged women, they have the wisdom to fully enjoy things and not be worried about impressing boys, eating “the wrong thing,” or maintaining their size 2. So they happily indulge in the well described fresh Italian cuisine and gelato while their visual senses are tantalized by the abundant art and history. Seriously, I am getting my passport updated. And then there’s the murder. No one deserves to be murdered more than Professor Sleazebag, the slimy user, philanderer and plagiarist. Not that I am condoning murder. The fact that male professors got away with that sort of thing back in the day just makes my blood boil. I think we should hang them all by their tes- (read full review at www.bubblebathbooks.net) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Laura Shumway couldn't say why she'd agreed to go on the class reunion trip to Italy. Maybe it was to take stock of her life, or maybe it was just to catch up with old friends, take in the sights, and relax in the beautiful Tuscan countryside. Either way, she knew she'd discover a lot on the trip, about both herself and her former classmates. What she didn't expect to discover was the dead body of esteemed professor Anthony Gilbert. Gilbert had had a long and illustrious career at the college. Now retired to Italy, he appeared as a surprise guest speaker at the women's vacation villa, still disarmingly handsome, still charming, but not nearly so eminent in the eyes of Laura's classmates. As a young professor all those years ago, Gilbert used his position and looks to seduce and then cast aside many of his young and impressionable students, and at least some of the women on this trip had been hurt by his false promises of love. The kind of hurt that runs deep and may have given any number of them a motive for murder. Before the polizia or carabiniere get involved, Laura and a few trusted classmates set out among the vineyards and hills of the Italian Riviera to solve the murder on their own. With the help of some influential locals and good old-fashioned detective work, they're soon led to the conclusion that one of their classmates might be a killer-- and what started as a trip to see how far they'd all come may turn into a stark lesson about just how far one of them would go."--Page 4 of cover. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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If you aren't from Swelles or another Seven Sisters school, you'll still enjoy this book if you like stories about women, critical thinking used to solve a mystery, descriptions of food and travel. There are no dangerous moments where our detective is stalked by a killer; this is a far more cerebral mystery than that and some may find it boring for that reason.
This book is about nostalgia and learning to live in the moment, it's about aging and resisting "getting old," and it's about sadness and joy.
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