Stanley Evans (1) (1931–)
Auteur de Seaweed on the Street
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Stanley Evans, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Séries
Œuvres de Stanley Evans
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Evans, Stanley
- Date de naissance
- 1931
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Lieux de résidence
- Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Professions
- soldier
surveyor
fisherman (deep-sea) - Courte biographie
- 1. Stanley Evans, born in England and immigrated to Canada in 1954 has been a soldier, a surveyor, college instructor and a deep-sea fisherman. He once spent several months travelling up and down the Amazon River and its tributaries. He lives in Victoria, B.C.
Seaweed under Water, won Monday Magazine's Best Novel of 2007 award. Evans' previous novels in the Seaweed series are Seaweed on Ice, and Seaweed on the Street. Seaweed in the Soup will come out in 2009.
Evans's novels in the Sergeant Decker, series, featuring a BC frontier lawman, are Outlaw Gold, and Snow-Coming Moon.
Membres
Critiques
1 
lkernagh | Jul 30, 2012 |
lkernagh | Jul 30, 2012 | Vous aimerez peut-être aussi
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 5
- Membres
- 119
- Popularité
- #166,388
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 18
- Favoris
- 1
Meet Detective Silas Seaweed, a charming ladies man and formerly a member of the Victoria detective squad. Now a neighborhood cop, his 'neighborhood' involves the colourful elements of society where Seaweed is to be out of sight and out of mind of headquarters, so long as he can keep himself out of trouble, that is. When uniformed branch sergeant George Barton has Seaweed meet him out at billionaire Calvert Hunt's Foul Bay Road estate, Seaweed finds himself re-examining a 5 year old murder case and is recruited by the billionaire to search for his daughter Marcia who went missing of her own accord some 20 years previously. This trail leads Seaweed into further nasty business with a ruthless pimp, a new unsolved killing to make sense of and an attempt on his own life.
This is the first book in what is currently a six book police procedural series written by a local Victorian writer I had never heard of before stumbling across a mention of this series here on LT. This one had a lot of positives for me: Interesting street savvy lead character who tends to follow his own rules and is used to operating in that grey area that is not quite the law; solid writing; a complex, steady moving plot; characters with some substance to them; good attention to detail all interwoven with interpretations of traditional Salish tribal ceremonies and rituals made this a great Sunday read for me that was hard to put down until I finished it. Yes, the local setting is nice icing on the cake for a Victorian gal like me but shouldn't detract from non-Victorian's being able to enjoy this one and the series in general.
Yes, I will continue reading this series, if anything to find out what Seaweed gets up to next.… (plus d'informations)