The Breakers
Sharon McCone Mystery Series, Book 33
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فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2018
نویسنده
Elizabeth Evansناشر
Hachette Book Groupشابک
9781549119668
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- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
June 25, 2018
In MWA Grand Master Muller’s underwhelming 35th novel featuring San Francisco PI Sharon McCone (after 2017’s The Color of Fear), McCone is dismayed to learn that 23-year-old Chelle Curley, a daughter of friends who restores old buildings, has disappeared from the Breakers, a former nightclub that Chelle was renovating to turn into a service center for disabled veterans. Interviews with Chelle’s friends lead nowhere, but McCone is intrigued that the nook where Chelle was camping out in the Breakers was next to a wall covered with news clippings about killers such as Jack the Ripper and Charles Manson. The case gets even weirder when Zack Kaplan, one of the building’s tenant’s acquaintances, asks McCone to come over right away; disturbingly, Zack is nowhere to be found, but the PI finds a note in Chelle’s handwriting, stating, “I’ve got a right to disappear.” Developments in McCone’s personal life don’t add much, and the solution will strike some as so improbable as to undercut the notion that her investigative work is realistic. Muller has done better. Agent: Molly Friedrich, Friedrich Literary.
It's always tough for a narrator to take over a long-running series. Happily, Elizabeth Evans proves herself a success with her second Muller title, the 34th Sharon McCone mystery. It's a solid enough listen, with McCone trying to track down Chelle, a young friend who has disappeared from the house she is rehabbing, a house in which there is a whole wall dedicated to serial killers.The Breakers is an abandoned former nightclub and hotel in the San Francisco Outlands. Then Chelle's parents disappear while traveling in Costa Rica. Evans has some enjoyable characters to showcase, and this series evokes San Francisco like no other. While the plot itself is forgettable, Evans's narration is exemplary,. C.A.T. � AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
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