The Ice House
Registered by lukutuoli of Tampere, Pirkanmaa / Birkaland Finland on 1/27/2007
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3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by lukutuoli from Tampere, Pirkanmaa / Birkaland Finland on Saturday, January 27, 2007
Ten years ago, Phoebe Maybury's hateful husband David disappeared from Streech Grange after his wife caught him in bed with their traumatized daughter Jane. Now a naked, unidentifiable corpse has been discovered in the icehouse on the Grange, and Inspectors Walsh and McLoughlin have to decide whose it is, whether he was murdered, and who killed him. The cozy British setup is countered by an unremitting ferocity of tone, as Walsh--who planted the story years ago that Phoebe killed her husband--and McLoughlin slug it out with Phoebe and her aggressively lesbian companions, interior designer Diana Goode and magazine writer Anne Cattrell. For good measure, McLoughlin, stung by Anne's accurate taunts that he's fallen for her, also tangles with unblushing liar Maisie Thompson, whose husband has done a bunk (could that corpse be his?); with his long-unfaithful wife; with the village queer- bashers; and finally with Walsh himself. Unholy passions seethe inches beneath a proper surface: a brutal, literate debut--especially welcome to fans of Ruth Rendell
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Chirel has asked to have this book after I've read it.
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EDIT 280407
I have problems to find time to read all my TBR-books, so this one must wait and I'll loan it to Chirel meanwhile .
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Chirel has asked to have this book after I've read it.
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EDIT 280407
I have problems to find time to read all my TBR-books, so this one must wait and I'll loan it to Chirel meanwhile .
Thank you.
For some reason I end up picking up two copies of Walters' books, one in English and one in Finnish (so far Fox Evil/ Pirunkettu, The Ice House/Ruumis jääkellarissa and The Acid Row/ Umpikuja). Usually one of the books is from the library and one via BookCrossing.
I didn't much like this book. It was too difficult to recocgnize the characters and I kept mixing up different police officers and the ladies living in the house. The story was also somewhat difficult to follow and the end was wrapped up in a hurry. Again the book seemed to be about something else than the crime it was centered on and I think it would have been better if the focus would really have been on the characters instead of crime facts. I guess it is difficult to change your style after so many crime books.
A detail: Anne Catrell (a main character in the book) has written two articles featured in Fox Evil :) I like details like that. I wish I'd known to look for them earlier.
I didn't much like this book. It was too difficult to recocgnize the characters and I kept mixing up different police officers and the ladies living in the house. The story was also somewhat difficult to follow and the end was wrapped up in a hurry. Again the book seemed to be about something else than the crime it was centered on and I think it would have been better if the focus would really have been on the characters instead of crime facts. I guess it is difficult to change your style after so many crime books.
A detail: Anne Catrell (a main character in the book) has written two articles featured in Fox Evil :) I like details like that. I wish I'd known to look for them earlier.
Journal Entry 4 by lukutuoli from Tampere, Pirkanmaa / Birkaland Finland on Thursday, November 8, 2007
The book has come back - staying in my TBR-mountain again...
Journal Entry 5 by lukutuoli from Tampere, Pirkanmaa / Birkaland Finland on Saturday, November 10, 2007
Oh no! I just noticed, that this is the same book as 'Ruumis jääkellarissa', the latter being the Finnish translation of The Ice House. I took them both with me from the BC-meeting, so now I have two copies of this book just like chirel had ;)
This copy is available!!
This copy is available!!
Journal Entry 6 by lukutuoli at Albert Dock in Liverpool, Merseyside United Kingdom on Friday, December 14, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (12/15/2007 UTC) at Albert Dock in Liverpool, Merseyside United Kingdom
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I'm travelling to Liverpool tomorrow and staying there for the weekend. I'll release this book in our hotel Holiday Inn Express or somewhere else in Albert Dock. Happy Reading & regards from Finland!
I'm travelling to Liverpool tomorrow and staying there for the weekend. I'll release this book in our hotel Holiday Inn Express or somewhere else in Albert Dock. Happy Reading & regards from Finland!
Erm... found it in the public toilets in work (Holiday Inn Express Liverpool Albert Dock). Not really interested in reading it, but was curious about the label on the front.