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Re: Best "Suspense" writers
i was wondering when you was gwine come back and update us...
re Elizabeth George - I've perfected the art of skipping over the private life of Lynley (a so im name) without nary a second thought or compunction. in this respect, i think Elizabeth George is trying too hard to be like PD James, who handled fi har hero (Dalgliesh) private life wid a lickle more finesse. Actually, now that I think about it, I think the killing off of Helen was a tacit admission by the author that the love story line just was not working.
I liked Winston too, and after the book was done was wishing hard hard that i knew real black men like that. He really came into his own in this book - in previous ones the author made him something of a dandy who you never quite sure if his ambition would make him a friend or foe to the hero. George really did a nice job portraying the tension between Winston and the chief commissioner.
I tire of Barbara Havers, too. This thing with the Indian fella and his daughter has been going on for a couple of books, and I wonder, really, what's the point?
Anyhow, Nunya, sorry you didn't like the denouement - I think almost every mystery there's a sense of anticlimax when it's solved (although I recall feeling less anticlimax with PD James' books).
You gwine try a Brookmyre? Do it for a laff...
glad fi see you back.
i was wondering when you was gwine come back and update us...
re Elizabeth George - I've perfected the art of skipping over the private life of Lynley (a so im name) without nary a second thought or compunction. in this respect, i think Elizabeth George is trying too hard to be like PD James, who handled fi har hero (Dalgliesh) private life wid a lickle more finesse. Actually, now that I think about it, I think the killing off of Helen was a tacit admission by the author that the love story line just was not working.
I liked Winston too, and after the book was done was wishing hard hard that i knew real black men like that. He really came into his own in this book - in previous ones the author made him something of a dandy who you never quite sure if his ambition would make him a friend or foe to the hero. George really did a nice job portraying the tension between Winston and the chief commissioner.
I tire of Barbara Havers, too. This thing with the Indian fella and his daughter has been going on for a couple of books, and I wonder, really, what's the point?
Anyhow, Nunya, sorry you didn't like the denouement - I think almost every mystery there's a sense of anticlimax when it's solved (although I recall feeling less anticlimax with PD James' books).
You gwine try a Brookmyre? Do it for a laff...
glad fi see you back.
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