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Leslie Glass

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17+ verk 1,306 medlemmar 19 recensioner

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Leslie Glass, who grew up in New York, has worked as a journalist, a playwright, and a novelist. She studied music at Mannes College and received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. Glass started writing the April Woo series in 1995. The stories presented in the novels are all based on real police visa mer cases. In 1991, she started the Leslie Glass Foundation, which grants graduate research fellowships in the criminal justice and mental health fields. Since 1998, she has been a trustee of the New York City Police Foundation and is actively involved in the Crime Stoppers program. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

Inkluderar namnen: Leslie Glass, Лесли Глас

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Verk av Leslie Glass

Hanging Time (1995) 166 exemplar
Burning Time (1993) 158 exemplar
Tracking Time (2000) 149 exemplar
Judging Time (1998) 148 exemplar
The Silent Bride (2002) 124 exemplar
A Killing Gift (2003) 107 exemplar
Loving Time (1996) 93 exemplar
A Clean Kill (2005) 87 exemplar
Over His Dead Body (2003) 67 exemplar
For Love and Money (2004) 18 exemplar
Modern Love (1983) 12 exemplar
Sleeper (2010) 10 exemplar
To Do No Harm (1992) 6 exemplar
Getting away with it (1976) 4 exemplar

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Again a very readable police thriller, involving two psycho sisters and April Woo's struggles to advance in the cop's bureaucracy.
 
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derailer | 2 andra recensioner | Jan 25, 2024 |
first book I've read by her. Pretty good police procedural, suspense novel. First in series involving Det. April Woo and psychiatrist Jason Frank.
 
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derailer | 4 andra recensioner | Jan 25, 2024 |
Mildly interesting read, that I picked up for 99 cents. The most interesting parts are when the character Woo is talking about her Chinese heritage, and especially her domineering mother, known as Skinny Dragon. There is a whole series about April Woo, a NYPD detective, but I wasn't impressed enough with the story or the writing to pursue any more.
 
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kwskultety | 1 annan recension | Jul 4, 2023 |
Judging by this novel, Leslie Glass is a very inconsistent writer:

* Sometimes, her characterization is bad; other times it is merely average.

* Most of the time, the accuracy and realism of technical matters is awful (such as when all martial arts got called karate, the epitome of skill was represented by "the one-punch kill", and breaking bricks was the important demonstration of, and training method for, "the one-punch kill"); other times it is slightly above average (such as when most of a page was some kind of stream-of-consciousness litany of random facts about martial arts, possibly lifted from a Wikipedia page, presented as dialog in a telephone conversation).

* Sometimes, the narrative almost completely lacked any descriptive material; other times, it focused on pointless minutia (at times showing rather questionable taste), and at those latter times it tended to run in streaks such as the section of the book where all suits were tweed and at least partly black (the other part, when there was another color at all, was pink).

The characters tended to be somewhat mean-spirited, including the supposed good guys, and I found that rather off-putting.

The protagonist's mother was a caricature, and a bit of a stereotype.

The protagonist and her fiance/co-worker/boss damned near ruin the lives of anyone who is close to the case before finally settling on the correct perpetrator, and nobody (including the author) seems to think there is anything wrong with that.

The climax was abrupt and felt a bit hollow, with the mystery-accomplice character not so much being a mystery as a cardboard cutout non-person.

I actually disliked it, but not quite enough to give it the lowest possible rating. I reserve that for the worst books -- not those that are merely bad, like A Killing Gift
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apotheon | Dec 14, 2020 |

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Verk
17
Även av
2
Medlemmar
1,306
Popularitet
#19,653
Betyg
½ 3.3
Recensioner
19
ISBN
68
Språk
6

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