Peter Kirby (3)
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- Nationalitet
- Canada
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- Ireland
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- Ireland
London, England, UK
Montréal, Québec, Canada - Utbildning
- Concordia University
McGill University (Law Degree) - Yrken
- lawyer
crime novelist - Kort biografi
- I was born in Ireland. When I was ten, the family left for England like so many Irish families at the time, and even now. We settled in Brixton, a working class South London neighbourhood....I left school knowing no university would take me, and headed for America. After wandering around for a few years, working as a cook in New York, Boston and Toronto, I arrived in Montreal.. I was right, and quickly came to love Montreal like no other place. I continued working as a cook at various greasy spoons but I also began to dream.
Concordia University had a mature student program with night classes. They let me in with a deal that if I did OK, I could stay, if not, I couldn’t. I did OK enough to get into McGill Law where I worked as a breakfast cook from 5.30 am to 11 a.m., and then went to law classes. Now I practice international law at one of Canada’s largest firms..I’ve been writing fiction since I left school, but the demands of raising a family and building a law practice meant that there was never enough time. The sock-drawer filled up with unfinished pieces. I figured writing legal briefs was close enough to writing fiction. But it wasn’t. It still isn’t.
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The beauty of a good crime thriller is the ability to draw a reader into the story. While action and suspense are important, the wording - especially how realistic the plot seems- is a strong factor in making a reader go forward in the book. Peter Kirby did this in his debut novel The Dead of Winter.
Page 11
Mary Gallagher was cold. She was drifting in and out of sleep on a concrete ledge beside the entrance to a parking garage, the fitful half-sleep that was all she had known for years. She had stuffed newspapers next to her skin under layers of clothing to ward off the cold, and her wool toque was pulled down low over her face. Cocooned in a sleeping bag she got from the Salvation Army three weeks before, and with only her mouth exposed to the damp night, she still shivered.
She sensed the approaching figure before he arrived. The concrete ledge was almost six feet off the ground, and his face was level with hers. He reached up and gently pulled the toque back from her eyes and, so tightly was she wrapped, she couldn't resist even if she had wanted to.
The plot deals with the deaths of five homeless people on Christmas Eve. The protagonist, Inspector Luc Vanier, heart-broken already by the break up of his family, is called out to investigate the scene. Kirby has a great writing style. His prose is both informative and almost every word is descriptive in making the reader feel the phrase.
my complete review… (mer)
Page 11
Mary Gallagher was cold. She was drifting in and out of sleep on a concrete ledge beside the entrance to a parking garage, the fitful half-sleep that was all she had known for years. She had stuffed newspapers next to her skin under layers of clothing to ward off the cold, and her wool toque was pulled down low over her face. Cocooned in a sleeping bag she got from the Salvation Army three weeks before, and with only her mouth exposed to the damp night, she still shivered.
She sensed the approaching figure before he arrived. The concrete ledge was almost six feet off the ground, and his face was level with hers. He reached up and gently pulled the toque back from her eyes and, so tightly was she wrapped, she couldn't resist even if she had wanted to.
The plot deals with the deaths of five homeless people on Christmas Eve. The protagonist, Inspector Luc Vanier, heart-broken already by the break up of his family, is called out to investigate the scene. Kirby has a great writing style. His prose is both informative and almost every word is descriptive in making the reader feel the phrase.
my complete review… (mer)
Someone dressed in a Santa suit has murdered 5 homeless people on Christmas Eve in Montreal. They are all found peacefully dead in their safe hidey-holes in various parts of the city. Detective Luc Vanier teases out the connections in the sad lives of the homeless. This was an excellent novel that grabbed me from the start and kept my interest all the way through. Highly recommended.
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- 34
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- #413,653
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 3
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- 34
The story began well, but the book really needed a good proof-reader. My copy had numerous grammatical & spelling errors. It was very distracting, especially as I was reading a library copy of this book & someone had taken a marker & corrected many of the mistakes throughout the book. And of course that person had missed some & corrected others that were not mistakes. Very distracting & annoying. I was surprised at all of the errors considering the author is supposed to be a lawyer.
There were also a few odd, inconsistant conversations between the Inspector & a few of the other characters which lead me to think that some of these might also have contained errors.
An "ok" mystery, but not one where I would seek out the next book.… (mer)