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Indlæser... The Adventures of Isabel: An Epitome Apartments Mystery (udgave 2020)af Candas Jane Dorsey (Forfatter)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. The Adventures of Isabel : An Epitome Apartments Mystery by Candas Jane Dorsey. Our protagonist (not named Isabel), a downsized pansexual social worker, lives in the Epitome (pronounced Epeetome, with a silent e at the end, by the residents) Apartments with her cat, Bunnywit (actually F***wit, but she is trying to change it because of her relatives' disapproval) and slogging through post-employment depression. Then she's asked by a friend, Hep (because she looks like a white-haired Katherine Hepburn) to investigate the death of Hep's granddaughter, Maddy, who was a prostitute and recovering drug addict. Our heroine, with help from Hep, their flamboyantly gay friend Denis, cops Roger and Lance, Jian (formerly homeless, later the protagonist's girlfriend), and cousin Thelma (very religious pillar of the church) pieces together Maddy's last days and who is responsible for her death. I really enjoyed this. The dialogue is snappy and snarky, the plot clips along, and the characters are great. For me, an added dimension was the city - nameless, like the protagonist, but by the appearance of the Double Greeting Wonton House, Noodle Noodle, and the Hardware Grill, at least mostly Edmonton. The author lives here, and is actually a friend of mine, so it's a double pleasure to be able to recommend this book. Go buy it, or get your library to buy it! ( )
From hanging out on street corners with prostitutes to attending glittering high-society charity balls with billionaire fraudsters, the always game protagonist proves herself to be a first-rate detective. Fans of unconventional mysteries will be richly rewarded. Belongs to Series
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HTML: Book one in a new playful and trope-bending mystery series featuring a queer, nameless amateur detective. "Candas Jane Dorsey's terrific mysteries are what would happen if Raymond Chandler and Frank N. Furter collaborated on cozies and the heroine were a pansexual private detective with heart, smarts, and a T-shirt saying MASCARA IS THE NEW NOIR." — Sarah Smith, author of the New York Times Notable Book The Vanished Child. Rescued from torpor and poverty by the need to help a good friend deal with the murder of her beloved granddaughter, our downsized-social-worker protagonist and her cat, Bunnywit, are jolted into a harsh, street-wise world of sex, lies, and betrayal, to which they respond with irony, wit, intelligence (except for the cat), and tenacity. With judicious use of the Oxford comma, pop culture trivia, common mystery tropes, and a keen eye for deceit, our protagonist swaggers through the mean streets of — yes, a Canadian city! — and discovers that what seems at first to be just a grotty little street killing is actually the surface of a grandiose and glittering set of criminal schemes. .No library descriptions found. |
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