Sam Wiebe
Auteur de Vancouver Noir
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Vancouver Sun
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Œuvres de Sam Wiebe
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- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Lieux de résidence
- Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
- Professions
- writer
Writer in Residence, Vancouver Public Library - Courte biographie
- Sam Wiebe's Last of the Independents won an Arthur Ellis Award for Best Unpublished First Novel. His prize-winning crime fiction has been published internationally. Recent projects include audio adaptations of Hamlet and Frankenstein, an independent film script, and a follow-up novel. He lives in Vancouver.
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Sunset and Jericho: A Wakeland Novel (Wakeland, 4) par Sam Wiebe
The plot twists are a stretch, but the characters, as always, are nuanced and sympathetic. Recommended for all libraries.
Very solid, very hardboiled, modern detective story told in classic first-person. The author does a fine job of laying out a couple of compelling mysteries and showing the dogged determination and sometimes inventiveness of a young private eye in solving them. The detective does come across as a little too experienced and world-weary for his stated age and background. But I just visualized him as older. This is one of several rough edges exhibited by this first novel, but none detracted from the story. Very enjoyable, if you like your stories dark and gritty and your detectives morally ambiguous.… (plus d'informations)
Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.Lots of really good short stories that take place in Vancouver. Sadly, I'm not really familiar with all of the authors, but I definitely enjoyed everything. I need to look up other works by the authors featured.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 185
- Popularité
- #117,260
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 35
- ISBN
- 39
