- Taschenbuch: 304 Seiten
- Verlag: Crimeline (5. Januar 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0553571869
- ISBN-13: 978-0553571868
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,3 x 10,7 x 2,5 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.4 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (5 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 849.246 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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From Kirkus Reviews
Conant, who has delighted dog-lovers in the first nine volumes of this specialty series perhaps to the point of alienating everyone else, displays in entry ten an invigorating diversification of interest. Dog-columnist Holly Winter is dared by a therapist friend to write something about--quelle horreur!- people. Her research takes her all around Harvard Yard as she looks into the history of Massachusetts settler Hannah Duston, a tribal captive who proved handier with a hatchet than Lizzie Borden. Simultaneously, Holly explores the ten-year-old murder of a local publisher--benign Jack Winter Andrews of Damned Yankee Press--and observes her two projects becoming as entangled as malamutes Rowdy and Kimi during a food fight. Stud Rites (1996) was set claustrophobically within a dog show. This time, Conant gives us a cool, merry, and informative look at academic Cambridge and a scene of sexual misunderstanding that goes from low comedy to something like tragedy. Conant still tends to overexplain jokes and her detective is still irritatingly full of pet-grooming advice. But there are human beings here and some very welcome human drama as our author slips her leash. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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The 18-year-old murder of a book publisher interested in showing dogs sidetracks Holly Winter from her research into the life of a New England woman abducted by Indians. She finally solves the case but nearly gets killed in the process. For all those dog-loving readers.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Holly Winter, a writer for DOG'S LIFE magazine, makes a bet with her friend and neighbor Rita (a psychotherapist) that she can indeed write something that has nothing to do with dogs whatsoever. Thus, Holly begins research on Hannah Duston, who, in 1697 was captured by Indians--then killed her captors and returned home. At the same time she is learning about Hannah Duston, however, Holly is also finding out about John Winter Andrews, who died eighteen years ago (was it suicide or murder? the case was never solved)--and owned a Golden Retriever, the same breed of dog Holly's family has bred for decades. Surely there must be a kinship link of some sort, and Holly is determined to find out what really happened.
Holly is a fun person to hang out with--smart, smart-mouthed, and with a smart choice of companions: her two Alaskan Malamutes, Kimi and Rowdy. Think Kinsey Millhone transplanted from Santa Teresa, California to Cambridge, Massachusetts and immersed in the world of dogs. Holly's other friends--her lover (and vet) Steve, her next door neighbor (and homicide detective) Kevin, and Rita--are almost as engaging as the assorted canines who show up in the novel.
Be warned: the Holly Winter series is addictive! This reviewer read ten of them (of which this is number ten) in ten days. All are stronger on dogs than on the mystery elements--which is not to say the mystery elements are weak, they aren't--but that's just fine by me. It isn't necessary to read these novels in order, so grab the first one you can find (and all the others you can put your hands on) and dig in for a tour of New England, dog shows and obedience trials, colonial history... and, oh yes... rats.
Kimberly Borrowdale, Under the Covers
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Ms. Conant is at her best when she is writing about the dog world. In this book she attempts to branch out into the world of academia and the story falters. There are two mysteries to be solved here, and I didn't find either one of them to be particularly interesting. The only time the characters come to life is when they are relating to the dogs in the story, and those times were far too few. Surely there is enough weirdness in the dog world for several more books. I hope Ms. Conant returns there for her future stories. Still, if you are a confirmed dog person, as I am, you will want to read this one and then look forward to the next installment in the adventures of Rowdy and Kimi.
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This is the first Susan Conant book I've read, and I guarantee it will be the last. I bought it because I liked the cover, I have two dogs and I love mysteries. But she preached on and on about how to buy, show and live with dogs and I got offended and annoyed. I don't need a fiction paperback to tell me how to raise my dogs - that's why I took them to obedience school for three years! I could have overlooked the "I know SOOOO much more than you about dogs" attitude if the mystery (either one of them) had been interesting, but I was bored stiff by the time I finished. The only redeeming quality of this book was the description of the way the dogs behaved. That, at least, was interesting (you would hope someone as obsessed with dogs as Susan apparantly is could at least make their descriptions entertaining, and they were, somewhat.) I'll stick to other authors that don't try to convert me to the dog fan club. I'm already a member.
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stuffy but nice
I've read Susan Conant's books from the beginning but one thing I've noticed about her writing: It has gotten very stuffy, with frequent lectures. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. März 1999 veröffentlicht
Spot-on dog show info with a mystery death or two attached!
Susan Conant is the dog show lover's writer. Every description of anything doggy in her book is 100% right on. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. März 1999 veröffentlicht
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