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Sto caricando le informazioni... Running Girldi Simon Mason
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Garvie Smith has a high IQ but he is bored with life, school and family. Then his ex-girlfriend's body is found and Garvie finds himself using his considerable powers of deduction to help the detective on the case, DI Singh whether he wants the help or not. Great murder mystery for older readers set in the poorer areas of England with true to life scenarios, characters and language. 1st of 2017! A slow-boiling mystery with a deliciously teen sleuth. As is usually the case with me & mysteries, I didn't love the slow pacing, the gradual coming together of clues, as much as a traditional mystery fan might. Plus, the whodunnit was not unpredictable — though the how was pretty cool. Still, the writing was great, with depth and insight, presenting characters of humor & resolve that kept pulling me in, despite myself. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Garvie Smith is a sixteen-year-old with a genius level IQ, who can not be bothered with school, smokes cannabis, and hangs out with the bad boys--but when fifteen-year-old Chloe Dow is murdered he comes up against the ambitious Detective Inspector Singh, and both of them are determined to solve the case. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Running Girl is labeled as a young adult mystery, but the only things that are young adult about the book are the characters. All of the themes and ideas involved are very adult; including, drug use, cigarette smoking, gambling, rape, and suicide. The mystery is very complex with many different clues and suspects, but the characters are not really well-developed. DI Singh is young and religiously devout, but that is all we really know about him. Garvie is intelligent and bored, but we don't ever get a sense of why he doesn't seem to care about anything until the murder. Overall, this is a well-plotted mystery, but not very enjoyable to read. ( )