
Murder 101
Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Series, Book 22
فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2014
نویسنده
Sofia Samatarنویسنده
Dean Jensenنویسنده
Richard Ferroneناشر
HarperAudioشابک
9780062332301
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- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
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July 14, 2014
Art theft provides the theme for bestseller Kellerman’s deftly researched 22nd Peter Dekker/Rina Lazarus novel (after 2013’s The Beast). Dekker, recently retired from the LAPD, has traded palm trees and sunshine for the snowy winters of upstate New York, taking a job in law enforcement in the sleepy college town of Greenbury. The effect of Dekker’s Orthodox Jewish beliefs add color to the narrative: for example, when he looks into a theft from a cemetery, it’s Shabbat, so he has to travel on foot, instead of by car. After two homicides in the area, Dekker picks up the trail of an art thief whose sights are set higher than a few graveyard treasures. While Kellerman includes too many unimportant details in the story, whether the description of an apartment’s heating system or an unappetizing kosher dinner, her skillful development of characters, both old and new, somewhat atones for this, and almost excuses this installment’s lapses in tension.

The usually superb Richard Ferrone has done some great narrations in his long career, but his delivery of Kellerman's latest is a miss. And the book itself takes too long to get to the point. Former LAPD detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, have moved from California to a small town in upstate New York, where he's become a semi-retired police detective. He and Rina investigate the theft of art from a cemetery followed by the murder of a coed at an elite college. Are the two incidents related? Ferrone's narration lacks energy and variety in intonation. It's difficult to distinguish females from males, and he seems to run sentences together. He has excelled in the past in portraying creepy serial killers because of his unusual voice, but his voice and style are inappropriate here. A.L.H. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
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