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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Bleeding of Innocents (1993)di Jo Bannister
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Appartiene alle SerieCastlemere (1)
When Detective Chief Inspector Frank Shapiro of Castlemere CID loses his right-hand man to a hit-and-run driver he has two major problems. One is his sergeant, who won't accept it was an accident: Donovan is convinced it was ordered by local crime baron Jack Carney, and he isn't the kind of policeman to be put off by lack of evidence. The other is that someone has chosen this moment, with CID already stretched, to launch a career as a serial killer. But Shapiro finds a useful ally in the inspector sent as a temporary replacement - Liz Graham, who worked under him once before and is eager to prove herself as a senior CID officer. She's intelligent, intuitive, and ambitious; she knows she'll have to fight for acceptance in the overwhelmingly male-oriented world of criminal investigation and she won't let an angry young sergeant who resents her very presence stand in her way. With the body-count rising and no indication that the murderer will be satisfied, Castlemere CID tries desperately to unravel the strands. As Liz delves into the professional and private lives of the victims she finds a link. But the connection is so ordinary, so innocent, that she struggles to make sense of it. Will someone else die before Liz realizes that, in the desperate mind of the killer, innocence is hiding a terrible guilt? And the person whose malevolent shadow has hung over them since this began remains to be faced in a closing act of startling violence. 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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It seems that a young geriatrics nurse is brutally shot in her car while there with her husband. Then it isn't long until another medical professional is also killed -- and now the Castlemere detectives realize that these deaths were not random. They have to put together the pieces to come up with motive, but there's still the death of Donovan's partner to consider, making it not one case but two.
I didn't feel like I really got to know any of these characters, with the exception of Donovan. However, in a series opener, the lack of character development is to be somewhat expected. I'm sure the author will continue to draw more out of her characters as the series progresses. The core mystery was good, the police work good, but at the end the tone gets a little preachy & it detracted a bit from my enjoyment of the story.
I'd certainly recommend the book, and I do have the entire series on my shelf and plan to finish all of them. It's a police procedural through and through, not at all a cozy.
Overall...okay -- I just hope the characters get a bit more fleshed out in the continuing series. ( )