Book: The Black-Eyed Blonde Author: Benjamin Black Genre: Hard-Boiled Detective/Gangster/Noir/Police Novel Summary: "It was one of those Tuesday afternoons in summer when you wonder if the earth has stopped revolving. The telephone on my desk had the air of something that knows it's being watc...
Prag im Winter 1599/1600: Der 25-jährige Christian Stern, ein unehelicher Sohn des Bischofs von Regensburg, ist gerade neu in die Stadt gekommen. Der ehrgeizige Gelehrte und Alchimist will am Hof des Habsburgers Rudolf II Karriere machen. Aber ein Mord kommt ihn in die Quere: Schon in der ersten Nac...
Den jungen Gelehrten Christian Stern, unehelicher Sohn des Bischofs von Regensburg, zieht es im Dezember 1599 nach Prag. Dort, am Hof des Kaiser Rudolfs II. will er es zu Ruhm und Ansehen bringen. Doch sein Schicksal nimmt eine unerwartete Wendung, als er in einer verschneiten Winternacht die Leiche...
Christian Stern ist einer der unsympathischsten Protagonisten, die mir in letzter Zeit begegnet sind. Immerhin erkennt er als alternder Ich-Erzähler, der mit Abstand auf die Geschehnisse des Romans zurückblickt, dass er in seiner Jugend ziemlich viel Selbstmitleid empfand. Ansonsten tapst er ahnungs...
Even the Dead was my first "Quirke" novel - which didn't matter one bit - and I have to say that I'm definitely wanting to read more.I've been a bit down on crime recently - with a few notable exceptions I've been findig them all very samey and indeed I have picked up and put down a few - with Even ...
I just finished this book. As I was reading this book, I feel like I have weighted blanket after weighted blanket added to my shoulders until I was hunched over almost in a ball of depression. The book is written well and while I don't mind a book that is deep and dramatic, this was so much more and...
This book was actually not that bad. It had an interesting storyline, and the trademarks of a noir novel. The problem, for me, was only that it was supposed to be a Philip Marlowe novel. Not because I expected something different (I did, but I have no problem changing my standards), but because the ...
Bored, that's what I felt reading this book. It's very short, only about 150 pages, and still, it was too long for the story that was being told. I just couldn't care for the story. I'm not planning on reading more books by this author, and wouldn't recommend them. Something I do think is intere...
It started like CSI Dublin... There are a wealth of fascinating characters in Christine Falls (more on that momentarily), but the atmosphere of the book is almost more compelling than the characters, or the underlying mystery (more on that as well). Quirke is a pathologist in 1950s Dublin. It sta...
bookshelves: published-2010, spring-2010, britain-ireland, fraudio, families, mystery-thriller Read from May 04 to 05, 2010 aka John BanvilleUnabridged. Read by Timothy Dalton - whee! Would have been a 4* except for the drawn out fill-in-the-gaps ending.My first B.B. but I do have the Silver Swa...
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