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S'està carregant… What the Fly Saw: A Mysteryde Frankie Y. Bailey
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. We’re in the future – 2020 to be exact. The first line read: “After the storm passed, in the chilly hour before dawn, the last of the “space zombies” found their way back to their nest in the derelict house.” Albany PD vice cops went into the home via battering ram. They found a girl who was barely alive; it looked like an OD. And they found what they were looking for … “an impressive array of drugs and paraphernalia.” Chapter 2 switches to an alternate story and the main story line. Funeral Director, Kevin Novak, is a distinguished member of the community. However, he seems to feel more connected to the corpses at the funeral home than to his wife. It’s during a blizzard when everything is shut down; he goes back to the funeral home to keep the deceased company. He is found dead in the basement the next morning, shot through the chest with his own bow and arrow. The doors were unlocked indicating perhaps that he knew the killer. Detective Hannah McCabe and her partner Mike Baxter are called in to investigate. This reminds me of the In Death series as the futuristic components are there but not ‘in your face’. However, that’s where the similarity ends. I assume the ‘space zombies’ was possibly a nickname given to the druggies. I didn’t see any reason to believe they were literal. There are other subplots to the story that I didn’t feel were fully explained in a timely manner. The story also pulled in news about a third-party presidential candidate, Howard Miller, who was seeking to abolish the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Now unless there are two Martin Luther King, Jr’s, with a holiday, there is a mistake in the novel which suggested he died a decade ago. If the novel is set in 2020, this is wholly incorrect. I loved the winter storm as the background; the name of the storm was Jezebel. This is the 2nd in the Detective Hannah McCabe series. The mystery was complete so was easily read as a standalone. The first in the series was The Red Queen Dies. I rated What the Fly Saw at 3 out of 5. I don’t usually read books that are futuristic (this was only by five years). What The Fly Saw by Frankie Y. Bailey is the first one that I have read that is set in an alternate world. I felt uncomfortable about the futuristic part. Oddly enough, it was not that I couldn’t imagine future inventions and I was able to figure out what the most prominent one would be like, the ORB. But the main character’s father used phrases that I think were out of date twenty years ago. Somehow it was jarring to me for her father to talk that way. Basically, I just pretended that I was reading a regular detective mystery so that I could get past the futuristic and alternate word elements. I think this book would have a wider audience without them. However, my main problem is the pacing of the story. The beginning was much too slow for my liking, I wanted to quit. I kept at and thankfully the pace picked up towards the last third of the book. I would enjoyed the book more if the author had picked up the pace in the beginning. The detective, Hannah McCabe, her father and the other people that she worked with did not make me want to know more about them. I think that is disastrous when it comes to a mystery series. It encourages me to not read anymore. On a positive note, I liked reading about the victim, his family and the murder suspects much more. I was sad when the 1st victim died. I thought he was a very intriguing character. I won’t say what it was here but I also thought that the second murder weapon was very trite. Also before the second murder weapon was disclosed, the pacing slumped again. That made me a bit angry. I had already guessed the murder weapon and was hoping that I was wrong and then the book slows down. So in summary the only redeeming part of the book was the victim and the secondary characters. When it comes to pacing, if you love Jane Austen novels then you should be fine but pacing that slow is poison to me. Personally, I don’t have the patience for slow paced books but if you do, you may want to read this book just for the interesting victim and side characters. I received an Advance Copy of What the Fly Saw by Frankie Y. Bailey book in exchange for a fair review from the Partners in Crime but that in no way influenced my thoughts or feelings in my review. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Pertany a aquestes sèriesHannah McCabe (2)
Albany, New York, January 2020 The morning after a blizzard that shut down the city, funeral director Kevin Novak is found dead in the basement of his funeral home. The arrow sticking out of his chest came from his own hunting bow. A loving husband and father and an active member of a local megachurch, Novak had no known enemies. His family and friends say he had been depressed because his best friend died suddenly of a heart attack and Novak blamed himself. But what does his guilt have to do with his death? Maybe nothing, maybe a lot. The minister of the megachurch, the psychiatrist who provides counseling to church members, or the folksy Southern medium who irritates both men--one of these people may know why Novak was murdered. Detective Hannah McCabe and her partner, Mike Baxter, sort through lies and evasions to find the person who killed their "Cock Robin," But McCabe is distracted by a political controversy involving her family, unanswered questions from another high-profile case, and her own guilt when a young woman dies after McCabe fails to act. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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