Barbara Parker (1) (1947–2009)
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Barbara Parker was born in Columbia, South Carolina on January 28, 1947. She studied drama at the University of South Florida. Before graduation she switched her major to history and then went to law school at the University of Miami. She worked as a prosecutor in the state attorney's office in visa mer Miami and then went into private practice. She also received a master's degree in creative writing from Florida International University (Miami). Initially, she began writing stories for her son, but it soon became a hobby and eventually her new career. Her first mystery, Suspicion of Innocence, was published in 1994 and became a CBS Movie of the Week entitled Sisters and Other Strangers. She wrote 12 novels during her lifetime including Blood Relations, Criminal Justice, The Dark of Day, and the Suspicion series. She died on March 7, 2009 at the age of 62. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Barbara Parker
Suspicion 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1947-01-28
- Avled
- 2009-03-07
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Columbia, South Carolina, USA
- Dödsort
- Boca Raton, Florida, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Florida, USA
- Utbildning
- Florida International University
University of Miami School of Law
University of South Florida - Yrken
- mystery writer
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Romantic Times Career Achievement Award (Mystery Series, 2006)
- Kort biografi
- Barbara Parker was born in Columbia, South Carolina and grew up in western North Carolina before moving with her family to Florida. She attended the University of South Florida, majoring in theatre arts, then graduated from the University of Miami School of Law. She became a prosecutor in the office of the Florida State Attorney before establishing her own independent legal practice. To spend more time with her son, she quit her law practice and took a job as a paralegal, while developing her writing career. She took courses at Florida International University, where her master's degree thesis became the genesis for her first novel, Suspicion of Innocence (1994). It was a finalist for the Edgar Award for best first mystery novel by an American author and was adapted into a television film called Sisters and Other Strangers. She went on to write a total of 12 novels in her "Suspicion" series revolving around Miami lawyers Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana, some of which became bestsellers. She served on the national board of the Mystery Writers of America and was the chair of its membership committee for two years.
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The Dark of Day av Barbara Parker
First edition very fine
The first half is fairly dull but it hooked me into the central murder mystery well enough to keep me going. It's one of those ones where everybody is connected to everybody else and revelations about everybody's pasts abound. A not overly appealing protagonist doesn't help; nor does occasional head-hopping confusion or an ending that doesn't really tie everything up properly.
This is almost a generic murder mystery, but it is interesting in its presentation. There is a surprise ending, which I, of course, will not reveal. Somewhere around halfway through the book, I made a correct guess as to the killer, but I had no idea until the end as to the motive. There were enough minor mysteries as the book progressed to keep reader interest alive as various theories, suspects, and motives were adopted and discarded.
I first read the Kindle sample. In the first chapter Jimmy Panther, a Native American is working as a tour guide piloting a boat in the Florida Everglades. His Scandinavian passengers happen to see an object in the water which turns out to be a body. Jimmy recognizes the body. That was well written enough to make me want to buy the book.
Immediately in chapter two we are introduced to Gail, a high powered attorney so devoted to her occupation that her marriage is falling apart, she has problems with her mother, doesn’t particularly like her chosen profession, and has problems with her entire family except for sister, Renee. The sister was the body in the water.
Then we have the Cuban connection; after all, it is Florida. Cubans are suspect because they are sneaky and Cuban. There is the possibility of drug involvement on the part of the Cubans, because they are Cuban. All the Cubans in the book, with the exception of the grandfather patriarch, are sex magnets for almost every female in the book, maybe because they are Cuban.
This is a comfortable read; I chose it as a break from more serious reading. Reading this as like running a leisurely 5K race. Not challenging, but satisfying.… (mer)
I first read the Kindle sample. In the first chapter Jimmy Panther, a Native American is working as a tour guide piloting a boat in the Florida Everglades. His Scandinavian passengers happen to see an object in the water which turns out to be a body. Jimmy recognizes the body. That was well written enough to make me want to buy the book.
Immediately in chapter two we are introduced to Gail, a high powered attorney so devoted to her occupation that her marriage is falling apart, she has problems with her mother, doesn’t particularly like her chosen profession, and has problems with her entire family except for sister, Renee. The sister was the body in the water.
Then we have the Cuban connection; after all, it is Florida. Cubans are suspect because they are sneaky and Cuban. There is the possibility of drug involvement on the part of the Cubans, because they are Cuban. All the Cubans in the book, with the exception of the grandfather patriarch, are sex magnets for almost every female in the book, maybe because they are Cuban.
This is a comfortable read; I chose it as a break from more serious reading. Reading this as like running a leisurely 5K race. Not challenging, but satisfying.… (mer)
The setting for this novel is the glitzy South Beach area, where all the models and high rollers like to come out to play at night. This is where the novel begins, a young model is invited to a high profile party at a club by her on and off again drug dealing boyfriend. He gives her some pills and leads her up to the VIP lounge. Ali the young model is just in awe of the people that she is surrounded by. The next thing she remembers is that she is being gang-raped by three men in the room it's pretty brutal and when she tries to fight back she's tossed out of the club like garbage. Two of the men are pretty prominent players in the area. Her friend, Catelyn takes her to the hospital where she is treated and notify the police to what has happened.
The new State Attorney doesn't want to take the case because of the players involved and hands it off to one of one of his prosecutors, Sam Hagen who has been in Felony crimes for eighteen years and knows his way around a courtroom. The State Attorney is convinced that this will amount to nothing that Ali, the victim will realize that it's best to keep quite and the charges against these men will go away. But it only gets bigger until the case blows up in everyone's face.
Ms. Parker's books have a lot of characters each with their own POV. But they are all come together seamlessly. She really goes into detail regarding the court system and how it works. The many cases that the prosecutors are trying at once, she leaves out no details, but they aren't boring at all so you're not stuck in a slow rut with her novels. I think her novels stand out because of the time she spent in the Florida State Attorney's office as a prosecutor. She knows her stuff and that's one of the reasons her novels are so good because she writes about what she knows. Her novels are gritty, believable and she is missed.
This novel was written in the 90's so its fun to go back into time when things weren't so convenient.
But one thing for sure Ms. Parker's writing style is timeless.… (mer)
The new State Attorney doesn't want to take the case because of the players involved and hands it off to one of one of his prosecutors, Sam Hagen who has been in Felony crimes for eighteen years and knows his way around a courtroom. The State Attorney is convinced that this will amount to nothing that Ali, the victim will realize that it's best to keep quite and the charges against these men will go away. But it only gets bigger until the case blows up in everyone's face.
Ms. Parker's books have a lot of characters each with their own POV. But they are all come together seamlessly. She really goes into detail regarding the court system and how it works. The many cases that the prosecutors are trying at once, she leaves out no details, but they aren't boring at all so you're not stuck in a slow rut with her novels. I think her novels stand out because of the time she spent in the Florida State Attorney's office as a prosecutor. She knows her stuff and that's one of the reasons her novels are so good because she writes about what she knows. Her novels are gritty, believable and she is missed.
This novel was written in the 90's so its fun to go back into time when things weren't so convenient.
But one thing for sure Ms. Parker's writing style is timeless.… (mer)
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