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Chargement... A Decline in Prophetspar Sulari Gentill
   Next in Series (72) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  DocHobbs | May 27, 2024 |    ) Mercef | Mar 30, 2024 | From Europe to New York to Sidney via the Cunard luxury liner RMS Aquitania in HOW many murders and attempts? Somehow I missed this second book in the Rowley Sinclair series! Bought it two years ago and just now found it in my TBR pile! Oh well, it's always good to read a Sulari Gentill book. I geek history, so her books are always a treat for me. There is so much real history embedded in the stories! So many things to learn from a different national perspective! This does not diminish the excellent investigative work, terrific characterizations, sneaky red herrings, or astounding plot twists. Rowley is the center of each story (addictive as they are), but each character is so definitively independent yet necessary to the plot/series. Loved it! (  ) jetangen4571 | Nov 15, 2022 | Sinclair and his friends decide to investigate. Quite a slow paced novel, but which kept my interest, with some amiable characters. A NetGalley Book (  ) Vesper1931 | Jul 29, 2021 | Audio performance by Rupert Degas 4 stars I think I’m hooked. This is the second book of Gentill’s Rowland Sinclair mystery series. I like the amateur detective, the artist, Rowland Sinclair. I like his cohort of unconventional artistic friends.I enjoyed the historical atmosphere which is thick with the worldwide political complications of the 1930’s. This book begins with murders aboard a luxury cruise ship, leaving England, with a stop in New York City, before it’s return to Sydney, Australia. I couldn’t ask for more interesting settings, and I enjoyed the cameo appearances of several famous names. The cast of shipboard characters is colorful. There’s a volatile atmosphere of conflict between prominent members of the Theosophical movement and several high ranking Catholic clergymen. There’s a fairly clear good guy/bad guy line drawn in this book, as in the first one. The sympathetic characters are the liberal Theosophists. The characters you will love to hate are the conservative Catholic priests. Back in Sydney, Rowland’s wealthy, conservative family are ridiculous to the point of caricature. Rowland’s passive acceptance of his brother’s manipulations, and the narrow minded rudeness of his relatives became so annoying that I began to lose interest in the mystery plot. The dangling plot lines do tighten up at the end. There was quite a lot of suspense before the climactic denouement. But, I couldn’t help feeling that the book would have been improved with some judicious editing. Overall, I was interested and entertained. I think I can expect to have the same levels of interest and annoyance in the next book. ( ) msjudy | Mar 22, 2021 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieRowland Sinclair (2) Prix et récompenses
Fiction.
Mystery.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: Winner of the Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Fiction for 2012 Travel back in time to 1932 and book a first-class suite on the passenger liner RMS Aquitania, but take care, for among your fellow passengers is a ruthless killer.... Direct threats from Australia's warring Right and the Left having quieted, wealthy Rowland Sinclair and his group of bohemian friends are their way home to Sydney via New York after a lengthy stay in Europe. The wealthy Sinclair scion has treated his artist friends to first-class accommodations on the Cunard ship, the luxury liner of the day. Also on board are some members of the Theosophical Society, one of those spiritualism movements that had a heyday in the early twentieth century, as well as an aggressively conservative Irish Catholic Bishop and his cohorts. Their clash ups the tensions in first class and presents the liner's captain with a tricky situation when bodies start to drop. It is Sinclair's bad luck that he becomes a suspect in the first death, that of the Bishop's beautiful young niece. But before the ship docks, he is cleared and the investigation, and further crimes, are taken ashore to the Australian capital and into some of its grand country houses. Weaving historical fact, events, and people with fiction, Sulari Gentill has created a delightful and spirited crime story, the second in the Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, set against the public unraveling of the Theosophist Society. There's an Evelyn-Waugh-meets-Agatha-Christie feel about this series and an extra treat in the New York scenes of A Decline of Prophets where one of Rowly's boho friends, in fact the sculptress whom he loves, is romanced by the not well-known English actor Archie Leach. .Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I haven't read the first in the series...the reviews indicate it may be a dull start with some great potential - and not sure I've got the energy for a dull start. That said, I didn't feel like I'd missed anything too significant for having not read the first book. Can't wait to read #3! (