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Indlæser... The Last Detective (original 1991; udgave 2003)af Peter Lovesey
Værk informationThe Last Detective af Peter Lovesey (1991)
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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. narrative style reminded me of Wilkie Collin's moonstone. Seeing incidents several times from different points of view. I didn't feel the author provided distinctive voices for the different narrators, which lessened the effectiveness. I also didn't particularly like the detective until towards the end. Will probably give others a try , though, overall a satisfactory read Troubling narrative. We're meant to believe, because we're told outright, that Diamond is the last of an old breed who use their intelligence, hard work, and superior deductive reasoning instead of those lazy newfangled computers. And then we hear immediately of the only other relevant case in his history, wherein he helped convict the wrong man, an obvious fall guy. He's accused of helping to send an innocent black man to prison, and it's shrugged off as 'of course not.' Now, some of this resolves, it's not the main story, and there are some enjoyable bits, but this underlying sense of believing the 'good cop' regardless of how he treats people and what he does wrong, just really festers.
[A] bravura performance from a veteran showman: slyly paced, marbled with surprise and, in the end, strangely affecting. . . Tilhører serienPeter Diamond (1) Indeholdt iHæderspriserDistinktionerNotable Lists
Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is the last detective: a genuine gumshoe, committed to door stopping and deduction rather than fancy computer gadgetry. So when the naked body of a woman is found floating in the weeds in a lake near Bath with no one willing to identify her, no marks and no murder weapon, his sleuthing abilities are tested to the limit. Struggling with a jigsaw puzzle of truant choirboys, teddy bears, a black Mercedes and Jane Austen memorabilia, Diamond persists even after the powers-that-be have decided there's enough evidence to make a conviction. Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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The dead body of a woman is found floating in a lake and Peter Diamond is called on to investigate. Sections of the story are retold from the POV of two of the suspects in the middle - I felt that made it a bit repetitive.
I'm not too sure I liked the ending... since it doesn't really explain what facts led Diamond to arrive at that conclusion, though it does make sense... but overall it was ok. ( )