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Steven Axelrod

Författare till Nantucket Sawbuck

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Verk av Steven Axelrod

Nantucket Sawbuck (2013) 30 exemplar
Nantucket Five-Spot (2015) 23 exemplar
Nantucket Grand (2016) 16 exemplar
Nantucket Counterfeit (2018) 14 exemplar
Nantucket Red Tickets (2017) 11 exemplar
Paranoid (2000) 3 exemplar

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Lots of different incidents are happening on the island of Nantucket, but are they random or connected.
Really couldn't get into the book, don't know why not
a NetGalley book
 
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Vesper1931 | Jul 29, 2021 |
"Nantucket Penny" is a gritty police detective story set on Nantucket Island, south of Cape Cod off the coast of Massachusetts. The island is favoured as a summer resort which supports and is supported by a year-round local population, "the townies". They tend to do the less glamourous grunt work for the affluent seasonal residents. Then there's the small-town secrets that are the topic of the coffee shop gossip. Nantucket Police chief Henry Kennis is a transplant from Los Angeles and is therefore considered to be a newcomer and an outsider by the townies. He's facing a series of mysterious disappearances, which are the subject of this story.

A dark suspenseful thriller emerges after a puzzling busy set up in the first half of the novel. Many characters are let loose on readers with little or no back story or connection to the narrative. Seasoned or loyal fans of the series may be able to figure out who's who and how they relate to the action. After some false starts and much running around, there's an exciting "made-for-television" conclusion, all set against the atmosphere of the island setting.

Poisoned Pen Press gave me a complimentary copy of an advance reading copy of the eBook via Netgalley for my independent review. The comments about it are my own.
… (mer)
½
 
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BrianEWilliams | May 29, 2021 |
Very enjoyable, keeps you guessing until the end.😉
 
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ohgranny | 2 andra recensioner | Mar 3, 2019 |
This is a chatty murder mystery set in the present-day summer resort of Nantucket Island, which is off the NE coast of the US. Horst Refn, the head of the town's community summer theatre is killed in spectacular fashion, he's strangled and stuffed into a freezer. Nantucket's Chief of Police Henry Kennis has the job of finding who did it. The story is told like a "ride along" with Henry as he goes about checking the alibis of numerous suspects. It turns out that in his pre-Nantucket days, Refn was a serial con man, blackmailer, and money launderer who left behind a trail of vengeful victims. Since arriving on Nantucket he has made even more enemies, some of them among the rich summer residents of the community. Henry manages find the killer, after a few false starts caused by him believing some lies told to him. The conclusion is dramatic with Henry's survival being at risk.

Henry is likeable. He's an attractive protagonist and a good narrator. While he is a transplanted Californian and former Los Angeles policeman, he's not the dried out alcoholic that often is found in stories about big-city cops moving to small towns. Rather than rely on technical wizardry, his sleuthing is done through hard work and paying attention to the clues. He's got some good cops on his force too.

This book is one of a series of Chief Kennis novels and the only one of the five that I have read. It's easily read as a standalone; there's no complicated backstory about Henry that you need to remember although there's a cast of recurring characters. Nantucket plays a big role in the story too. It's the local colour of a resort town catering to rich people who keep to themselves, rarely mingling with "the locals". Of course its those locals who do the mundane chores like mowing the lawns, waiting on tables and driving taxis. Then there's the Bulgarian Brothers who become Henry's confidential informants!

A good entertaining book and recommended.

Thanks to Poisoned Pen Press and Netgalley for providing a copy of the eBook. The views expressed are my own.
… (mer)
½
 
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BrianEWilliams | 2 andra recensioner | Oct 31, 2018 |

Statistik

Verk
9
Medlemmar
115
Popularitet
#170,830
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
10
ISBN
35

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