John Caulfield
Auteur de In All My Sad Dreaming
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The Atom Heart Murders par John Caulfield
I think highly of this author and this book is no exception.
This is an excellent novel. I recommend it highly.
In All My Sad Dreaming by John Caulfield
The tourist brochures show Cape Town in the summer, when the sky is a radiant blue. They do not show the city in the grey winter- they do not show the Cape of Storms.
It is winter when this story takes place. This is a mystery set in Cape Town South Africa during a violent modern era a time when most houses have burglar bars on the windows and security gates on the front doors. Captain James Black is a member of the Police Service and part of the serious violence unit. He is just leaving the hospital after having been there for a considerable time suffering from two gun shot wounds.
Blake is still hoping to understand what has happened to him when he is called to the scene of a murder that his partner thinks he should see despite his ill health.
The victim is a wealthy lawyer who was once a member of a rock band of four young men who had moderate success years before but who had gone on to other endeavors and had not seen much of each other. There was one attempt at regrouping but this was stopped in its tracks when another member of this rock band died in a freak skydiving accident about a year before. The most suspicious circumstance in the dead man’s life centers on his young beautiful Thai mail order bride who seemingly hates him and who has already one dead husband to her credit.
As Captain Blake visits the suburbs of Cape Town tracking down people he remembers his youth and an eerie sense of nostalgia comes over him.
“Like so many of us,” he tells himself, “I have a strong desire to escape this violent decaying country. But a part of him will always regard the city of dreams as his home. Thus on he goes attempting to solve this confusion mystery. The story is filled with musical references that go back to the ‘70’s. The prose itself is musical in many ways. There is a tone of foreboding overlying IN ALL MY SAD DREAMING that reminds one of Alan Paton. Captain James Blake is most of all trying to make sense of his life.
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In All My Sad Dreaming by John Caulfield
The tourist brochures show Cape Town in the summer, when the sky is a radiant blue. They do not show the city in the grey winter- they do not show the Cape of Storms.
It is winter when this story takes place. This is a mystery set in Cape Town South Africa during a violent modern era a time when most houses have burglar bars on the windows and security gates on the front doors. Captain James Black is a member of the Police Service and part of the serious violence unit. He is just leaving the hospital after having been there for a considerable time suffering from two gun shot wounds.
Blake is still hoping to understand what has happened to him when he is called to the scene of a murder that his partner thinks he should see despite his ill health.
The victim is a wealthy lawyer who was once a member of a rock band of four young men who had moderate success years before but who had gone on to other endeavors and had not seen much of each other. There was one attempt at regrouping but this was stopped in its tracks when another member of this rock band died in a freak skydiving accident about a year before. The most suspicious circumstance in the dead man’s life centers on his young beautiful Thai mail order bride who seemingly hates him and who has already one dead husband to her credit.
As Captain Blake visits the suburbs of Cape Town tracking down people he remembers his youth and an eerie sense of nostalgia comes over him.
“Like so many of us,” he tells himself, “I have a strong desire to escape this violent decaying country. But a part of him will always regard the city of dreams as his home. Thus on he goes attempting to solve this confusion mystery. The story is filled with musical references that go back to the ‘70’s. The prose itself is musical in many ways. There is a tone of foreboding overlying IN ALL MY SAD DREAMING that reminds one of Alan Paton. Captain James Blake is most of all trying to make sense of his life.
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- Œuvres
- 5
- Membres
- 13
- Popularité
- #774,335
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 5