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Sto caricando le informazioni... Love and Death Among the Cheetahsdi Rhys Bowen
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The author starts this instalment with an apology in advance; the book is set in Africa - Kenya - during the late 20's/early 30's, a time when race relations and the views of the British Empire (as were the rest of the world) were shameful. This had me braced for difficult reading, but I have to say, that was not the disclaimer I needed. In true cozy style, Bowen acknowledged the dichotomy and inequality between white and black without really verbalising it. What caught me unawares (and shouldn't have; I can only wonder if the pre-apology diverted me), was the casual references to hunting big game. Of course it was a thing back then, and of course I should have seen it coming. The other unexpected part of the story was the behaviour of the upper class in Kenya; a risqué path for a cozy, but done well by the author, and based on actual events and a real person: Lady Idina Sackville. Bowen closes with a short bibliography of texts she used in an effort to write about the times accurately. All in all, another enjoyable instalment in a long-running series that has remained fairly strong throughout, balancing cheeky naiveté and interesting murder plots. In this latest edition of Rhys Bowen's Royal Spyness series, Georgie and Darcy are finally married and honeymooning on a barge on the River Thames. All is love and romance until they come up for air and realize they've run out of food. What to do? Darcy decides to take one of his Foreign Office assignments to track down a stolen jewel to Kenya and combine it with an extension of his honeymoon. Once there, the couple finds themselves amid the notorious Happy Valley set wwhere, at a sex and drug fueled party , once of teh prominent guests turns up dead. No need to go into th4e details, as this is another cozy romp from Ms. Bowen with a happy ending and a set up for the next volume to come. I cannot wait. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Georgie is excited when Darcy announces out of the blue that they are flying to Kenya for their extended honeymoon. It is only after they arrive that she suspects he has actually been sent there on an assignment. She tries not to be angry, because she is, after all, in a paradise! They are picked up in Nairobi and taken to a lovely house in Happy Valley--the center of upper-class English life there. Darcy finally confides that there have been some spectacular robberies in London and Paris, and it is suspected that the thief was a member of the aristocracy and may have fled to Kenya. Georgie is shocked at the completely decadent lifestyle that involves wild parties and rampant infidelity. One of the leading lights in the community, Lord Cheriton, makes a play for Georgie. She rebuffs him. Then he is found dead along a lonely stretch of road. At first it seems to be a lion attack. But why was he on that stretch of road, alone, late at night? It seems the Happy Valley community wants to close the case, but as Georgie and Darcy investigate, almost everyone has a motive to want Lord Cheriton dead. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Shocking goings-on confuses the list of suspects, but the red herrings are not so tough to dodge around and I knew the perpetrator very early on. This is rare for me in written mysteries so I had the good feeling of being very smart for a brief moment...given the times in which we live, feeling smart is a gift.
All in all a lovely light read, with lions and tigers and cheetahs of all sorts...
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