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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Headmaster's Wife (2005)di Jane Haddam
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I read several of the early Gregor DeMarkian books, and then stopped for many years. I picked this one up and returned to the series with both eagerness and trepidation, so many series go stale after this many books. This was not the case here, however; I thoroughly enjoyed this robust mystery set in an elite, progressive (read far-left), private boarding school in small-town Massachusetts. The academic, liberal characters are strange, almost foreign to me, but believable, and their depiction is finely crafted. I also enjoyed the development of the mystery itself, which had several twists and turns. I will gladly be reading more of this series, trying to catch up from where I left off. #20 in the Gregor Demarkian series. Mark DeAvecca, Elizabeth Toliver’s son (Somebody Else’s Music) makes a return appearance to star in his very own book. Mark is attending Windsor Academy, a very “modern” New England prep school. As in every community, there are secrets, but the major one in Windsor Academy is the series of torrid sexual affairs that the headmaster’s wife has with students; her latest is Mark’s roommate. Not that this is a secret exactly; everyone seems to know, including the headmaster himself. So, small towns/communities are what they are, and no one really believes that an elite prep schools will be different. But Mark is having problems of his own, weird physical symptoms that certainly imitate those of someone zonked out on drugs. It’s just that Mark has never taken drugs. He’s gone to the infirmary but they can not find anything obviously wrong with him. Faced with an increasingly hostile atmosphere at the school—the majority of the faculty don’t want him there because he’s just “not their type” but are afraid of his famous mother and even more famous stepfather—Mark stubbornly tries to stick it out. Then he returns to his room to find his roommate hanging from the rafters, a suicide. Desperate, because of increasing physical problems and indifference on the part of the faculty, mark calls on the one person he feels can help him, with whom he has established a real bond outside of his family—Gregor Demarkian. Demarkian is undergoing a crisis of his own. Depressed after the bombing of Holy Trinity Armenian Church and feeling that nothing changes no matter what his efforts, Gregor has withdrawn from the world and can not find energy to become involved in outside work, even though requests for his help continue to arrive. He does respond to Mark, however, and he does get back into the groove. A Gregor Demarkian novel never has just one murder. By the time the book is over, there will be two more. However, Demarkian resolves everything in Haddam’s usual elegant fashion. Another outstanding installment in an excellent series. Highly recommended. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieGregor Demarkian (20)
Mark DeAvecca is a brilliant fifteen-year-old in his first year at the exclusive private academy, Windsor School. Mark, the son of noted commentator Liz Tolliver, grew up in very different circumstances and could not fit in less well. With its hundred-year-old history, Windsor is rife with tradition, nasty rumors, petty jealousies and long buried resentments. The most savage of those unpleasant undercurrents swirl around the headmaster's wife - currently rumored, with good reason, to be having an affair with Mark's roommate, a street-tough scholarship student. Mark, however, has his own problems - he feels himself slowly losing his grip on reality and the staff widely believes him to be just another prep school burnout headed for an unpleasant end. So when Mark returns from a late-winter ramble about the campus to find his roommate dead, hanging from the ceiling of their room, he's reached the end of his own metaphorical rope. Even though he's no longer sure about the line between fantasy and reality, Mark is fairly certain that something is going on at the school and there's more to the death than the official declaration of suicide. With nowhere else to turn, Mark calls retired FBI agent Gregor Demarkian to ask for help. Sensing the crisis in Mark's dulled voice, Demarkian arrives to find Mark in dire physical and mental state, and a school only too eager to sweep his roommate's death under the rug. In what quickly becomes one of the most complex and challenging cases in his career, Demarkian must untangle truth from fiction, fantasy from reality, before another life is lost. 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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good story.
mark tiresome. perhaps all teen-age boys are. just energy with no common sense.
all teachers so weird. is this what parents get for their money in private schools? ( )