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Chargement... Rolloverpar Susan Slater
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Susan Slater's Rollover is an excellent mystery. It doesn't just involve murders; there is so much other stuff going on in a seemingly sleepy small town! The writing is very solid, the plot intricate and baffling -- though it did resolve neatly -- and the pacing excellent. All the characters, major and minor, are well-written and very real, and while the ending resolved the plot, there was left a lot of believable ambiguity among various people's motivations. The premise is based on a true crime that (unlike in the book, which is pure fiction) remains unsolved. Intriguing! This is the second book in the series, and I am eager to read the first. The first is definitely not required -- Rollover is a fine place to step in. I received this book from rambles.com, an online reviewing magazine, in exchange for an honest review. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"A bank heist turns sleepy little Wagon Mound, New Mexico, on its ear. It's no straight-forward, "demand all the money at gun-point and hustle out the front door" kind of robbery. It's a sneaky tunneling that probably took months to complete and landed the thieves in a room of safe deposit boxes--not the vault with two million bucks for a ranch sale next door. Was this some mistake, or was the thieves' target the Tiffany-designed sapphire and diamond necklace belonging to eighty-five year old Gertrude Kennedy, a family heirloom from the days of the Titanic? The necklace is insured with United Life and Casualty for half a million. The company sends their ace investigator, Dan Mahoney, a Chicagoan still in New Mexico recuperating from events in Flash Food, and romancing the intrepid Elaine Linden, to the scene of the crime. Delayed when his Jeep overheats, Dan catches a ride and is the hapless passenger in a rollover that kills the driver and lands Dan in Santa Fe's hospital. Dan soon learns the rollover was no accident. Someone wants him kept out of Wagon Mound at any cost. Dan hasn't lived his life looking over his shoulder and he's not starting now. But when Elaine disappears and people close to the case, like the bank's manager, turn up dead, he suspects there's more going on than a robbery. The note slipped under his rented room's door in the dead of night says it all--"it's not what you think"." -- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I enjoyed watching how Dan interacted with the residents of Wagon Mound as he tried to find out what really happened in that bank. He became very unpopular, very quickly. The bank heist was difficult to solve and kept me guessing till the end, due in part to the fact that the suspect list contained people of all ages, genders, and walks of life. Having Dan's fiancee Elaine there added some badly needed normality to the story because the author made it extremely difficult to pin any of the suspects down. She also uses the New Mexico setting to good effect, stirring emotions and increasing tension.
What I couldn't believe was how quickly I devoured this story. I'm definitely looking forward to more insurance investigations by Dan Mahoney! ( )