Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions
Kopp Sisters Series, Book 3
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فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2017
نویسنده
Christina Mooreناشر
Recorded Books, Inc.شابک
9781501965579
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- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
July 3, 2017
Stewart’s third novel in her clever and original Kopp Sisters series (after Girl Waits with Gun and Lady Cop Makes Trouble) continues the thorny adventures of Constance Kopp, New Jersey’s first female deputy sheriff. The earlier books featured Constance establishing herself as an effective law enforcement officer in a male-dominated profession, determined she can do whatever a male deputy can do. Here, however, there is little crime-fighting and less suspense, as Stewart focuses instead on the very real social, economic, and legal restrictions on women in 1916, and on the prickly relationships between Constance and her two sisters, Norma and Fleurette. Constance and Norma are middle-aged spinsters; Fleurette is 18 and dreams of a stage career as a singer and dancer. When Fleurette runs off to join the vaudeville troupe May Ward and Her Eight Dresden Dolls, Norma fears Fleurette might be held against her will in bad conditions. Meanwhile, Constance must supervise the female prisoners in the county jail, protect young girls from overzealous prosecution for the moral crime of waywardness, and apologize for a colossal and hilarious show business misunderstanding. Though the least action-packed of the three novels, this latest volume is by far the funniest.
Listeners are introduced to this fictional version of the real-life Kopp sisters and their story, set against the backdrop of WWI. Constance, a newly appointed sheriff's deputy in Hackensack, New Jersey, faces the challenges of all women forging a life for themselves at this time. The plot weaves together the lives of the sisters and other girls whom Constance finds in her care. Narrator Christina Moore rises to the challenge of characterizing the various young female characters with ease. Her narration helps listeners to picture the girls from a range of backgrounds as well as to follow the different plotlines. She also voices the male characters with confidence. This is an interesting story, in particular because if offers us a window onto another time. K.J.P. � AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
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