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Sto caricando le informazioni... Kaleidoscope (2002)di Dorothy Gilman
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Sheer fun! I love a good cozy mystery with a psychic twist! ( ) This was an excellent adventure following on with the tales of Madame Karitska's life as a clairvoyant reader of people. As before, the story is told over a series of chapters that evolve from her clients' lives. Mme K's abilities together with the police solve a number of criminal cases. I liked the pacing in Gilman's Madame K stories. There is mystery and suspense tempered with a gentleness evoked by the main protagonist. It was never boring and Gilman has an uncanny ability to create atmosphere and thrills yet remain in the 'cozy mystery' genre. I had hoped for a sequel to [The Clairvoyant Countess] when I first read it in the 80’s, but this is the first time I have been able to find. This is the second and final Madame Karitska collection of events. Dorothy Gilman who died in 2012 came back to this character with this second book bringing many of the original characters. The characters shine and the storyline is much more connected than in book 1. Enjoyable. Interesting variation on a short story collection. This cosy mystery of sorts features a psychic who solves several different mysteries, sequentially, so that the chapters could be almost stand-alone short stories except that they are linked into a novel. The psychic is consistent enough that it is pretty to suspend disbelief about her abilities, though I wondered at times why she could not do readings on some of the available objects- murder weapons, belongings of missing people, etc., that might have made some of the cases much easier, and thus made the stories shorter. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Next to the incomparable Mrs. Pollifax, Dorothy Gilman's best-loved character is the mysterious Madame Karitska, who is blessed with a powerful gift of clairvoyance that attracts to her a stream of men and women craving help with their misfortunes, desperate to know what the future holds. . . . When a brilliant young violinist dies in a horrific accident, Madame Karitska has only to hold the victim's instrument in her hands to perceive the shocking truth. But when an insecure wife asks whether her husband will abandon her to join a sinister cult, Madame Karitska-as wise as she is lovely-chooses not to reveal all that she foresees. And when an attaché case is suddenly dropped into her lap by a man fleeing a crowded subway, she knows it's time to consult her good friend Detective-Lieutenant Pruden. A nine-year-old accused of murder, a man dying a slow death by witchcraft- for the hunted and the haunted, Madame Karitska's shabby downtown apartment becomes a haven, where brilliant patterns of violence, greed, passion, and strange obsessions mix and disintegrate with stunning, kaleidoscopic beauty. Once again Dorothy Gilman exercises her own uncanny power to render readers spellbound. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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