Gently with the Painters (George Gently)
Registered by eicuthbertson of Burnaby, British Columbia Canada on 1/12/2016
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
2 journalers for this copy...
Good read! (I do like the TV series too.)
Publisher's description:
"The death of a young artist leaves Gently desperately piecing together the portrait of a murderer. When artist Shirley Johnson is murdered and her body dumped outside a provincial police headquarters, Gently is despatched from London to Northshire to take over the investigation. The prime suspect appears to be the woman's husband, a former bomber pilot with a guilty secret, but the other members of the woman's art group also have strong views about her and her controversial final painting - Dark Destroyer. With so many suspects to consider, Gently must get to the bottom of the mystery before the murderer manages to slip through his fingers."
Publisher's description:
"The death of a young artist leaves Gently desperately piecing together the portrait of a murderer. When artist Shirley Johnson is murdered and her body dumped outside a provincial police headquarters, Gently is despatched from London to Northshire to take over the investigation. The prime suspect appears to be the woman's husband, a former bomber pilot with a guilty secret, but the other members of the woman's art group also have strong views about her and her controversial final painting - Dark Destroyer. With so many suspects to consider, Gently must get to the bottom of the mystery before the murderer manages to slip through his fingers."
Journal Entry 2 by eicuthbertson at -- Somewhere In Burnaby in Burnaby, British Columbia Canada on Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Released 8 yrs ago (1/13/2016 UTC) at -- Somewhere In Burnaby in Burnaby, British Columbia Canada
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Releasing at the Lower Mainland Bookcrossing Meetup's Potluck!
Gently frets behind the desk helping to set up a raid that will clear up a set of gangs in Poplar (where the midwives are cycling around, no doubt). There is a murder in Norwich, at an art exhibition put on by the local art society and Gently is just waiting for the decision to be made to "call in the Yard" They do, but it's given to a brand new inspector. After some eyebrow raising Gently is given the job and told to take C.I. Stephens with him.
The plotting is pretty good, the characters are vivid, perhaps a little over vivid (our art society leading lights are certainly not as "arty" as St. John Mallows of the Palette Group) and the gobbledegook uttered by one of the members almost made me feel that I had missed an art lecture somewhere along the line. I liked the bit about the Italian paper, though, and nodded all through that.
The plotting is pretty good, the characters are vivid, perhaps a little over vivid (our art society leading lights are certainly not as "arty" as St. John Mallows of the Palette Group) and the gobbledegook uttered by one of the members almost made me feel that I had missed an art lecture somewhere along the line. I liked the bit about the Italian paper, though, and nodded all through that.
Journal Entry 4 by Strude at Kafka's Coffee Shop in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada on Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Released 5 yrs ago (8/15/2018 UTC) at Kafka's Coffee Shop in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Bringing this to Meetup. Why not join us - there's good coffee and/or tea and who knows what the conversation will be. Things that aren't chosen will be left on the bench at the back wall - or held for a mass release Sept. 30 at the main Vancouver library. Watch for announcements and plan on attending "Word"