Liza Cody
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Sobre l'autor
Liza Cody was born in London on April 11, 1944. She is an English crime fiction writer. She is the author of the popular Anna Lee series, which introduced the professional female private detective to British mystery fiction. Cody is also the author of the Bucket Nut Trilogy which features mostra'n més professional wrestler Eva Wylie. Cody has also written the novels Rift, Gimme More, Ballad of a Dead Nobody, and Miss Terry. Cody's awards have included the John Creasey Memorial Prize and the CWA Silver Dagger in the UK as well as an Anthony Award in the U.S. and a Marlowe in Germany. Most of Cody's work is set in London. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Liza Cody
Mr Bo 2 exemplars
[Gift or theft] ; Milch oder Blut 1 exemplars
Logro Livro 1 1 exemplars
Turning It Round 1 exemplars
Whole Life 1 exemplars
In Those Days [short story] 1 exemplars
White Knights & Giggling Bimbos 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The International Association of Crime Writers Presents Bad Behavior (1995) — Col·laborador — 90 exemplars
Great Stories of Crime and Detection, Volumes I-IV: Beginnings to the Present (2002) — Col·laborador — 78 exemplars
A Classic English Crime: 13 Stories for the Christie Centenary (1990) — Col·laborador — 77 exemplars
A Taste of Murder: Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers (1999) — Col·laborador — 45 exemplars
Great Mystery Series: Top Female Sleuths by 8 of the Best Women Mystery Writers (1991) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Das Grosse Lesebuch des Englischen Krimis 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1944
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- London, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- London, England, UK
Bath, Somerset, England, UK - Professions
- crime novelist
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“Bad Company” proved to be a bad read.
The potential was there for a great crime thriller, but thrills are sadly missing here. It lacks an engaging narrative and compelling characters. I won’t give the ending away but will state that it left me dissatisfied.
What irritated beyond everything else was the excessive number of adverbs. If, as the saying goes, “The road to Hell is paved with adverbs”, then that road first passes through this book.
This is worst of all in the dialogue attribution, where the author tries to use a different adverb every time a character speaks: “he said conversationally,” “she said angrily,” etc. It’s distracting to the point that come halfway through the book, I would wonder which adverb was coming up whenever a character began to speak.
A good writer should be able to *show* the characters' emotions with actions, not rely on adverbs to *tell* the reader about it.… (més)
The potential was there for a great crime thriller, but thrills are sadly missing here. It lacks an engaging narrative and compelling characters. I won’t give the ending away but will state that it left me dissatisfied.
What irritated beyond everything else was the excessive number of adverbs. If, as the saying goes, “The road to Hell is paved with adverbs”, then that road first passes through this book.
This is worst of all in the dialogue attribution, where the author tries to use a different adverb every time a character speaks: “he said conversationally,” “she said angrily,” etc. It’s distracting to the point that come halfway through the book, I would wonder which adverb was coming up whenever a character began to speak.
A good writer should be able to *show* the characters' emotions with actions, not rely on adverbs to *tell* the reader about it.… (més)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 34
- També de
- 22
- Membres
- 1,077
- Popularitat
- #23,871
- Valoració
- 3.5
- Ressenyes
- 22
- ISBN
- 162
- Llengües
- 8
- Preferit
- 4
I am fairly sure that I read this blood about thirty years ago, prompted to do so by having seen the television series, although it didn’t evoke many memories (to be fair, that would have been thirty years ago, and I have read more than three thousand other books since). Coming to it again I found it enjoyable, but it has not aged well. Anna Lee is a great character – far from flawless, but very empathetic. The plot is rather turgid, and revolves around film piracy which was a serious enough problem in the early 1990s, even before the proliferation of illegal copying spawned by the explosion if home computing and the internet.
This was an enjoyable trip back into the past, although I don’t think I will be delving any further into this particular archive.… (més)