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Dave Vizard is an independent consultant who regularly trains lecturers, teachers and support workers around the country on behaviour management, teaching and learning. He provides seminars and behaviour roadshows for NASEN and SEBDA, and lectures on the Foundation Degree and HLTA programme at the visa mer University of Plymouth. He provides training for a number of companies including Lighthouse, Tribal/SFE, DICE, RTA and Sector Training, and has also provided training for Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) around the UK. He has written over 12 books, the last published title being How to Manage Behaviour in FE. visa färre

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A very interesting premise for a mystery story. I found it to be both captivating and intriguing. The characters are well described and thus very much seem to be real people. The location of this story happens to be my home town, and is captured very well by the author. It made me wonder if I had missed some old news, because this seemed so real. He did not try to over embellish anything, but made the whole main story, and smaller sub-stories seem true to life. I would highly recommend this book, especially if you like small town mysteries, or stories that make you wonder if they could happen in your home town.… (mer)
 
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finallycj | May 23, 2016 |
A great read; especially if you are familiar or want to be familiar with Mackinac Island and/or Michigan. The book mixes real life events with fictional characters in a fictional story. The characters feel like they could be your neighbors; they are well developed and believable. I really enjoyed this story and cannot wait for the third book in this series to be released.
 
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finallycj | 1 annan recension | Apr 1, 2016 |
I received this book from a Goodreads giveaway.

A Grand Murder initially starts out on the beautiful Mackinac Island and follows Nick Steele, a journalist from Bay City. Nick gets called to Mackinac Island to dig further into a strange death at the Grand Hotel.

This is the second book in the Nick Steele series, and Vizard’s second novel. Even though I haven’t read the first book, A Formula for Murder, I still found this book enjoyable. I am hoping to see a third installment to this series and the way it left off at the end, I’m thinking there will be.

I liked that this was a mystery novel from the journalist’s point of view. I’m so used to reading from the point of view of the investigators, so it was interesting to see what it takes for a journalist to bring a story together.

“Chase the smoke, find the fire.”

Nick was an upstanding character. He managed to have such a professionally respectful relationship with the Chief of Mackinac Police. I admired that a lot. He was incredibly dedicated to his job and made a great team with Dave and Greta. He really wanted to get to the bottom of things, and save more people from getting hurt. Digging deep into a dark past, a tragedy was uncovered and everything started to make sense for him.

In the background, Tanya and Nick’s relationship was a constant up and down but I really found myself rooting for them. I wanted Nick’s walls to come down because I felt bad for Tanya sometimes. In the end though, I was satisfied with the way things turned out for them.

Overall, I thought this was a good book and I look forward to going back to read the first in the series. I felt that it could have been a little more fast paced in the beginning, but the end made it worthwhile.

“Everything we do that’s worthwhile comes with a risk.”
… (mer)
 
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SPerry2014 | 1 annan recension | Mar 9, 2016 |

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Verk
8
Medlemmar
32
Popularitet
#430,838
Betyg
5.0
Recensioner
3
ISBN
15