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Sto caricando le informazioni... Death in Cold Type (2005)di C. C. Benison
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This entertaining mystery centers around a newspaper, the Winnipeg Citizen. Told by different narrators, the story begins with the murder of the son of a former owner of the paper. The reporters and the police compete to find the killer. Newsroom politics affect almost all the players. In the process, old scandals are uncovered which may still have consequences in the present. The narrators are generally likeable but somewhat troubled individuals. For someone living in the US, at least in Maryland, the freedom with which people smoke indoors is startling. One tiny correction: Baltimore is the largest city in Maryland, but not actually the capitol: that is Annapolis. I also wonder: in 2005, weren't cell or mobile phones pretty common in Canada. I enjoyed the book and generally recommend it to lovers of amateur sleuth mysteries. (Or should reporters be considered amateurs?) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Newspaper reporter Leo Fabian doesn't think of himself as an opportunist. But when the object of his desire, Stevie Lord, loses the object of her desire to murder, he finds a whole new way to penetrate a woman's heart. Who would want to kill Michael Rossiter anyway? Scion of an old Winnipeg newspaper family, he may have been rich, but he didn't really seem to have enemies. But as Leo delves deeper into the circumstances surrounding Michael's death, he learns some surprising things about his friend that quite possibly led to his demise. Michael's brutal fate mires Leo in a case that comes to embroil his fellow reporters at the Winnipeg Citizen, including troubled feature writer Liz Elliot, volatile lifestyle editor Guy Clark, and Michael's narcissistic sister Merritt Parrish, whom Michael has tried to help get back on the straight and narrow. One of his oldest friends, Axel Werner, also becomes involved and, of course, Stevie, the woman Leo loves. The past intrudes in new and disturbing ways. Old scandals cast long shadows and long-ago deaths take on frightening implications. From old-money Crescentwood to a new-money mall, from the Citizen's dilapidated newsroom to a peaceful prairie retreat, Leo follows a complex trail of clues, until he not only knows, but knows he has only moments to thwart another brutal murder. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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At first some social customs and the antiquated technology in use startled me, as it did LT reviewer juglicerr, but I decided that the time period of the story must be about 1988. ( )