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Sto caricando le informazioni... Harbour Street: A Vera Stanhope Mystery (originale 2014; edizione 2015)di Ann Cleeves (Autore)
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A woman is stabbed aboard a train in which Joe and his daughter are passengers. The deceased woman resided at a boarding house on Harbour Street. The woman loved doing good works for the unfortunate, particularly women with a less than savory past. The more they investigate, the more Vera is convinced the murder is tied to the woman's past. What is the woman's well-guarded secret? Other secrets might be uncovered during the investigation as well. The setting is in the days leading up to Christmas although it's not really a Christmas story. Vera investigates the murder on a train of a woman who is a long time lodger of a once famous musician. I was convinced the lover of one of the characters would turn out to be her father. Was this a red herring, or was I just making connections where none existed? An interesting mix of characters. And I do like how Vera is depicted, a hard-worker who is a bit lonely, which makes for a sympathetic detective. Vera Stanhope's protege, Joe Ashforth, and his young daughter Jessie are on scene when a saintly elderly woman is stabbed on the crowded Metro shortly before Christmas. Although neither of them witness the actual crime (and no one else in the carriage seems to have seen it either), it is poor Jessie who discovers that the woman is dead. As Vera's investigation proceeds, everyone's past seems to hold clues, and the dead woman's history is particularly interesting to Vera, although honestly not terribly surprising to this reader. There are many connections among characters, and we bite our nails waiting for the inevitable peril our girl Jessie must find herself in (nice twist on that, though). I still struggle with the author's attitude toward her main character--I feel Cleeves does not like Vera very much, and certainly does not approve of her personal habits. Yet she has created a complicated woman with emotional baggage, whose skills and talents are admirable, who recognizes her own prejudices but does little about them, and who makes some nearly earnest attempts to modify her behavior for the sake of her health, not her appearance. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieVera Stanhope (6)
Fiction.
Mystery.
HTML: From Ann Cleevesâ??New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV showsâ??comes Harbour Street. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Another woman is killed and Vera has to dig deep into suspects and two decades of local events. Suspects are questioned but they are dead ends.
It turns out the murderer was her landladies' son. ( )