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Chargement... Sing a Worried Song: An Arthur Beauchamp Novelpar William Deverell
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Now in paperback: the sixth novel in the acclaimed Arthur Beauchamp series Everything is going well for Arthur Beauchamp in his early middle age. Life is so good for the top-notch defence lawyer that, in a moment of career restlessness, he decides to switch sides, just the once, and prosecute a young man charged with murdering a clown. Beauchamp is confident he can prove Randolph Skyler is guilty. Confident, but still worried and surprisingly blind to how precarious the evidence is -- and, worse, to the fissures opening in his personal life. It's a case Beauchamp will never forget, not even years later, when he's happily remarried and retired to a bucolic life on Garibaldi Island in the glorious Salish Sea. As Beauchamp is about to learn, the older you get, the greater the chance that the past will come back to bite you. In Deverell's latest marvel in his Beauchamp series, Arthur has causes aplenty to sing a worried song. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Fast-forward to 2012 when Beauchamp is living on one of the Gulf Islands just off Vancouver's coast. With the many distressing events he has experienced in his life, worry and self-doubt has become habit, escalating when the 1987 killer has been given parole.
The characters, especially on the island, are eccentric in a believeable way (I know these islands) and provided much comic relief in an otherwise straightforward courtroom mystery. Although the story is fairly slow, it was fun and interesting. I enjoyed all the local references that show some of the unique West Coast character.
Deverell, a Vancouver lawyer, is founder of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association and creator of the CBC television series Street Legal. He adds a note to this novel, explaining the real case that inspired it. It seems also that some of the characters were based on real people. Beauchamp's second wife, Margaret, appears to be a clone of Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party in Canada. (