Murder on Millionaires' Row--A Mystery
A Rose Gallagher Mystery Series, Book 1
فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2018
نویسنده
Barrie Kreinikناشر
Macmillan Audioشابک
9781250303820
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- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
August 6, 2018
Raised in Manhattan’s impoverished Five Points district, 19-year-old Rose Gallagher, the narrator of this promising series debut from Lindsey (the Bloodbound fantasy trilogy), works as a maid in Thomas Wiltshire’s Fifth Avenue townhouse. Rose, who has a crush on the handsome British bachelor, is alarmed when Wiltshire vanishes in January 1886. In the course of attempting to trace his movements, she encounters a distraught, bloodstained woman who appears on the sidewalk ahead of her and then walks straight through a lamppost, leaving it suddenly sheathed in ice. When Rose learns that the newspaper article Wiltshire was reading just before he disappeared concerned an apparition with similar properties, she realizes that more than human perfidy is afoot. Though the book’s middle sections feel clogged with the detailed explanations required by its complex world of ghosts and shades, magical gifts and disembodied threats, Rose’s sparkling perspective and an appealing supporting cast shine throughout. Lindsey’s quirky mix of supernatural shenanigans and well-drawn historical detail augurs well for future installments. Agent: Lisa Rodgers, Jabberwocky Literary.
Narrator Barrie Kreinik artfully portrays colorful people--locals and immigrants--who call New York City home in the nineteenth century. Rose Gallagher is housemaid to wealthy British Pinkerton detective Thomas Wiltshire, whose disappearance deeply concerns her. Listeners will be pleased to meet lovely Chinese Mei and Gallagher's mam (mother), who talks to the dead. Kreinik's most appealing creation is Wiltshire's cook, Clara Best, who shares witty and wise observations as she reluctantly helps Rose search for their employer. Glorious and ghastly descriptions of the city's living conditions and history are revealed as they comb the metropolis. Portals and ghosts, chillingly depicted by Kreinik, reveal criminal activity and the city's hideous underbelly. Fascinating historical notes presented by author Lindsey conclude a rousing listen. S.G.B. � AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
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