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Hilary Bonner

Autor/a de When the Dead Cry Out

21+ obres 345 Membres 21 Ressenyes

Sobre l'autor

Hilary Bonner is a former showbusiness editor of the Mail on Sunday and the Daily Mirror.

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Obres de Hilary Bonner

When the Dead Cry Out (2003) 61 exemplars
A Deep Deceit (2000) 32 exemplars
A Passion So Deadly (1998) 31 exemplars
For Death Comes Softly (1999) 31 exemplars
Friends to Die For (2014) 29 exemplars
A Moment of Madness (2002) 26 exemplars
The Cruelty of Morning (1995) 24 exemplars
No Reason to Die (2004) 22 exemplars
The Cruellest Game (2013) 22 exemplars
A Kind of Wild Justice (2001) 20 exemplars
A Fancy to Kill for (1997) 17 exemplars
Deadly Dance (2017) 9 exemplars
Wheel of Fire (2018) 5 exemplars
Heartbeat: the real life story (1962) 4 exemplars
Death Comes First (2015) 4 exemplars

Obres associades

The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunnits (2007) — Col·laborador — 57 exemplars
The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime (2002) — Col·laborador — 47 exemplars
Green for Danger (2003) — Pròleg — 16 exemplars
René & Me (1989) 16 exemplars

Etiquetat

Coneixement comú

Data de naixement
1949-08-02
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
UK
Professions
newspaper editor

Membres

Ressenyes

David Vogel, mild mannered surface, steely strength running deep!

David Vogel’s latest murder investigation is a web of past deceits, present truths and complicated twists.
Vogel is called away from a family dinner to attend the death of a prominent screen writer , James Harding, at the annual book writers festival at Appledore in NorthDevon.
Nothing to see here! It appears to be more a heart attack, but Vogel goes through the appropriate procedures. It’s more that the dead person is a high profile Netflix writer that’s had him called out.
Vogel needs to get back to his wife and daughter, Rosamund. She’s about to go to a residential school but is upset about her missing cat.
When another successful Romance author, Delia Day, who’d been on the same panel as Harding, is injured in an ‘accident’, Vogel is suspicious, which becomes a certainty when Delia is attacked in the hospital.
This was a convoluted yet exciting tale that kept me swiping the digital page so fast that I almost lost it several times in my determination to find out who’d done it!
Even the ending added its own frisson!

A Severn House ARC via NetGalley.
Many thanks to the author and publisher.
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eyes.2c | Sep 24, 2023 |
She has everything a loving handson husband and intelligent caring son. A beautiful house not many friends. Its demolished when the son is found hanged, the husband is a bigomist and the first wife is angry.
Detailed to the point of slow and repetitive but builds to a very surprising ending.
 
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BryceV | Dec 30, 2022 |
A fire at Blackdown Manor results in the death of the two residents. But everything about that event is suspicious. DI Vogel and his team are called in to investigate.
I didn't really take to the main police character, and the outcome didn't really come as a surprise. It was enjoyable enough and I did finish the story though.
A NetGalley Book
 
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Vesper1931 | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Jul 29, 2021 |
The first installment in the DI David Vogel series, Deadly Dance by Hilary Bonner is a dark yet compelling police procedural.

DI David Vogel is affected more than usual when he is assigned to investigate the death of fourteen year old Melanie Cooke since he has a daughter who is the same age as the victim. He does not let this affect his investigation but he is definitely determined to bring her killer to justice. Like many murder inquiries, he and his team, DC Dawn Saslow and DS John Willis, begin with the victim's family. Although stepfather Jim Fisher has an alibi, troubling information almost immediately comes to light. Melanie's father, Terry Cooke, is incredibly distraught at the news but he co-operates fully with the investigation. However, DC Willis zeroes in on Terry as a suspect right from the beginning. Vogel is not convinced Terry murdered his daughter, but will the evidence prove Willis is on the right track?

Interspersed with David's investigations are chapters written from three very different individuals. Saul desperately wants to meet and marry and turns to an online marriage website to find a bride, but will he find a woman to share his life with? Leo is gay but he is so deeply closeted he turns to hook-ups to satisfy his desires but will he change his mind after he becomes infatuated with a one-night stand? Al is a pedophile with voyeuristic tendencies but will he continue to resist acting on his fantasies? While these three men initially do not seem to have any connection to Melanie's murder, will this change once Vogel delves deeper into the investigation?

Deadly Dance is an intriguing but rather slow-paced mystery. The investigation into Melanie's murder is a straight-forward murder inquiry and Vogel is a by the book detective inspector who has keen instincts and a sharp intellect. The chapters written from Saul, Al and Leo's perspectives are somewhat explicit but Al's exploits are particularly difficult to read. These chapters are not intended to be titillating and none of their scenes are gratuitous but the subject matter is not for the faint of heart. Readers will most immediately guess the identity of Melanie's killer, but Hilary Bonner still brings the novel to a jaw-dropping, action packed conclusion. The DI David Vogel series is off to an outstanding beginning with this first clever installment.
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kbranfield | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Feb 3, 2020 |

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Obres
21
També de
4
Membres
345
Popularitat
#69,185
Valoració
3.1
Ressenyes
21
ISBN
120
Llengües
3

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