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Indlæser... The Widowaf Nicolas Freeling
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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. Arlette, viuda del inspector Van Der Valk, decide montar una asesoría que la distraiga de la apacible vida de Estrasburgo. Sin embargo, no podía imaginar que esta nueva actividad la conduciría a complejos y peligrosos asuntos… Authors sometimes tire of their fictional heroes long before their loyal readers – Sherlock Holmes and John Le Carre’s Smiley come to mind – and then struggle to convincingly, if briefly, resurrect them (Holmes) or convert their readership to accepting a new heroic character. To the stunned disbelief of thousands Freeling killed off his adored Dutch ‘copper’ Piet Van der Valk after a dozen best-selling novels and several runs of a highly popular European TV series. He claimed that as he had relocated from Amsterdam and was now living in France he felt he could no longer accurately reflect the Dutch culture, and he introduced an entirely new policeman Henri Castang in a series that was actually more developed and multi-faceted than the Van der Valk series. Stunned in his turn by his fans reaction – they even stopped publishing his work in a couple of European markets – Freeling, briefly, reintroduced Van der Valk family in the character of Arlette, Piet’s widow whom he had in any case made French in the series, As a compromise Arlette, the widow of the title, begins detective work in Strasbourg, a city set in France but very ‘deutsch’ in culture. Like other compromises this one, for me, did not satisfy. Redeemed only by Freeling’s talented writing and deliberately obscure plot twists, the novel is not to the quality of either the earlier Van der Valk or the Castang series. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
After the death of her notorious husband Van der Valk, Arlette has had to make a new life for herself, with a new city, new job, and now a new man. But being married to a detective for twenty years has left its mark, and the pull of her late husband's work draws her in. Her new husband, Arthur, has the remarkable idea that Arlette should go into helping people professionally, and her very own advice bureau is born. At first the expected battered wives and suspicious husbands knock at her door, but these cases are not as simple as they first appear, and Arlette soon finds herself acting the private detective in a violent and dangerous world.Nicolas Freeling's fans will already be familiar with the sparkling Arlette, and here in The Widow - first published in 1979 - she finally comes into her own. No library descriptions found. |
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