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Sto caricando le informazioni... Silent Partnerdi Stan Schatt
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Detective "Frankie" Ryan tracks a sadistic killer while the press attacks her as a feminist vigilante who takes the law into her own hands. The only one who can help her is a tabloid reporter who can't decide if he's a psychic who sees ghosts or just someone going insane. As they search for the killer in a sunny seacoast city's seamy S&M underside, they begin to question everything they know about sexual identity. How can they find the killer before he strikes again when he defies description? Silent Partner is a paranormal mystery, a police procedure novel with a female detective that will remind you of Harry Bosch, a ghost story that suggests what lies beyond death, and a comic look at a tabloid where the truth is whatever sells. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I assumed at first that this must be book number 2 in a series, due to the numerous unexplained references to Frankie’s ‘feminist vigilante’ past. However, this eventually gets explained (but not until much too late, in my opinion). It left me with a nagging feeling that I was missing something.
Silent Partner started off as a by-the-numbers police procedural, with nothing to hint at the fact that there might be more going on. So when Josh begins to have visions about a quarter of the way through the book, I at first attributed it to him having a mental breakdown. This paranormal twist seemed to come out of left field, with no explanation. Josh comes to terms with his new powers very quickly, as do most of the other characters (with one exception).
The prose for the most part is well written, but the author had a bad habit of summarizing bits of conversation or scenes. Several times these summaries happened right in the middle of the action, tripping me up and forcing me to backtrack, as I had missed the fact that in one sentence the characters had moved locations or finished their conversations and moved on to speak with other characters. These summaries also made it hard to really get immersed in the story.
My final problem is a huge leap of logic the characters take in order to focus on Trinidad, Colorado. It felt like lazy story-telling, as there was NOTHING concrete found by either Frankie OR Josh that would have told them where a character potentially had surgery.
As far as the transgender and BDSM aspects of the story, you can tell the author did a lot of research but didn’t really understand certain aspects of the culture. This wouldn’t matter for the main characters, since they don’t know either, however, one particular character who is supposed to be an expert at one point gives the characters wrong information and in another case makes it sound like Trinidad, CO is the ONLY place to get a certain thing done (It most certainly is not, in fact I know scores of people who have done this and not a single one went to Colorado).
Overall, the story came to a satisfying conclusion, and things wrap up very nicely at the end. (