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S'està carregant… Windy City Dying (2002)de Eleanor Taylor Bland
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Marti MacAlister, Eleanor Taylor Bland's popular African-American heroine, is forced to confront some extremely personal demons from long ago-her husband Johnny MacAlister is long-buried, but now someone from Johnny's past is back, looking for him, and Marti fears she knows who it might be. In the meantime, her work as a suburban Chicago homicide detective has taken her back in time in another way, to a group of children she once counseled, each now four years older and with four more year's worth of problems. There's LaShawna, now seventeen and with her own four-year-old daughter; Padgett, all grown up at twelve but still living with his alcoholic mother; and then Jose, fifteen, who's in the most trouble of them all. He's been accused of murder, but the Jose that Marti remembers could not have committed such a terrible crime. Her first step is to find out what could have happened in the past four years to lead Jose to such a desperate act, and she hopes her second step will be to prove his innocence. It won't be easy, though; just what's going on with this tight group of kids, and how does it relate to the increasingly foreboding sense of doom Marti gets about the mystery man who's nosing around the remnants of her distant past? She's not sure, but she knows she must figure it all out, and soon, before another of the children, or even Marti herself, falls into grave danger.Windy City Dying is another taut, absorbing read from one of the masters of mystery fiction. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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The stories also perform the tough trick of dealing with the gritty side of life, and the reality that not everyone can be saved, without becoming despondent. The main characters never stop fighting the good fight, which I find rather inspiring.
Marti MacAlister is a homicide detective in the fictional Chicago suburb of Lincoln Prairie (based on Waukegan, IL). When the series begins, Marti has been widowed for about 16 months and she and her two children are still trying to come to grips with the loss of husband and father. She previously worked in Chicago but left after the death of her husband Johnny, an uncover narcotics agent.
Her partner is Matthew "Vik" Jessenovik, who grew up in Lincoln Prairie, knows just about everyone, and mourns the changes as the town has grown. Vik is rather skeptical of the appropriateness of a woman being a homicide detective and is also leery of Marti's big-city background. He has a wife, children and grandchildren.
This book was, once again, a welcome return to beloved characters. In the first book, a group of homeless children was found living in a library. In this book, we revisit the children, now gone several ways, and learn what has happened to them. Typical of Ms. Bland's handling of social issues, Marti and Vik are challenged by a social activist; while bothered by his accusations personally, they agree with his concerns generally.
Marti and Vik find that several cases of homicide may be related, and worse, Marti's family may be a target. I was gripped by the story. I do hope that Ms. Bland isn't going to have Marti stalked by psychopaths too often; that's why I stopped reading the Alex Cross series. (Of course, that's a popular series, I suppose I'm a minority opinion.) This installment was a bit gory for me. Still, I love the series, and can't wait to read the next adventure. (