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The Graving Dock (Detective Jack Leightner) (édition 2007)

par Gabriel Cohen (Auteur)

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A floating coffin draws Brooklyn homicide detective Jack Leightner into a murder investigation in hidden parts of New York Harbor and the old Brooklyn Navy Yard in this second novel in Edgar Award nominee Gabriel Cohen's acclaimed crime seriesAt a bed and breakfast in upstate New York, Brooklyn homicide detective Jack Leightner is doing his best to propose to his girlfriend. When the hotel staff loses the engagement ring, romance is put on hold and Leightner returns to Brooklyn to tangle once more with death. A boy has been found floating by the Red Hook pier in a handmade coffin that suggests a burial at sea. But when a second victim turns up, Leightner senses a vile pattern.The last time he worked Red Hook, the old waterfront was a ghost town. Now, gentrification is reshaping the quiet cobblestoned streets, with big-box stores and condos being built where longshoremen once lived, worked, loved, and died. But even in this shiny new Brooklyn, Leightner knows, there are corners where darkness reigns.

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Titre:The Graving Dock (Detective Jack Leightner)
Auteurs:Gabriel Cohen (Auteur)
Info:Minotaur Books (2007), Edition: 1st, 304 pages
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Although this is my first book by Cohen, he is now one of my favorites and I will be reading more. The main character is a New York police homicide detective who we get to see become more self-reflective as he struggles with his life. This is a complicated mystery with complicated characters, with no simple or trite results. Pretty real relationships also. I learned a bit about how complicated the interactions of river currents and tides are, an old island near Manhattan that was once a small town with a life and culture of its own, and also a tiny touch of Buddhism and Judaism. I had no idea where this story was going and couldn't put it down until I found out. This was a five star read for me and I look forward to more by this author. ( )
  mkboylan | Jan 16, 2014 |
A sequel to Red Hook, set soon after 9/11, in which a NYPD detective tries to find out what led to a child's body being set afloat in a coffin. The writing is good, but I had a hard time connecting to the protagonist, in spite of much time being spent on his personal life. I think I might have liked it better if the focus had been more firmly on the crime and less on the protagonist's hapless attempts to propose.
  bfister | Nov 1, 2008 |
This mystery is the second in a series featuring Detective Jack Leightner. The major mystery involves a coffin, with the body of a young boy, that drifts ashore in Brooklyn. A few secondary mysteries enter into the novel including problems with a new partner, the death of a Buddhist monk and a doctor murdered in Prospect Park.

The story provides good descriptions, which set the atmosphere nicely, of several areas of Brooklyn and Governor's Island as well as details on how his investigative unit fits in with other areas of the police department. There is a romantic interlude, and some Buddhist ruminations.

The search for the boy’s murderer, probably a mercy killing, covers a lot of interesting territory.

The character of the protagonist is well drawn. ( )
  HorusE | Feb 12, 2008 |
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A floating coffin draws Brooklyn homicide detective Jack Leightner into a murder investigation in hidden parts of New York Harbor and the old Brooklyn Navy Yard in this second novel in Edgar Award nominee Gabriel Cohen's acclaimed crime seriesAt a bed and breakfast in upstate New York, Brooklyn homicide detective Jack Leightner is doing his best to propose to his girlfriend. When the hotel staff loses the engagement ring, romance is put on hold and Leightner returns to Brooklyn to tangle once more with death. A boy has been found floating by the Red Hook pier in a handmade coffin that suggests a burial at sea. But when a second victim turns up, Leightner senses a vile pattern.The last time he worked Red Hook, the old waterfront was a ghost town. Now, gentrification is reshaping the quiet cobblestoned streets, with big-box stores and condos being built where longshoremen once lived, worked, loved, and died. But even in this shiny new Brooklyn, Leightner knows, there are corners where darkness reigns.

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