Death on the Beach (The Retired Detectives Club Book 3)

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Whitman, Walt (1871). "On the Beach at Night". Poetry Foundation . Retrieved 3 August 2020. Not to be confused with another Whitman poem, "On the Beach at Night Alone".

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But delays by the Thai authorities in finding Christina’s body and glaring gaps in the investigation left her parents convinced there was more to discover about how their beloved daughter died. This is a really good and interesting read. The setting was atmospheric and I thought that the storyline was really good and believable. I read the first book in this series and enjoyed it as well. I hope there are more books to come. You never feel in reading this book that it has been translated into English which demands a shout out for the work of Jozef van der Voort.

It follows the murder of Maria, a young girl from a deeply religious family. Detective Lina investigates the days and weeks before Maria’s death, but is faced with a lot of stonewalling from Maria’s community. They are used to judgment and aren’t particularly receptive to outsiders. As Detective Lina is making her rounds through the community, I felt for both her and the community at large. People often judge that which is different from what they know, and I hurt for the community that they felt scrutinized by virtue of their faith. I do think the translator of this book was fantastic! Often I find the language to be stilted when books are translated into English, but I would have not known this book was originally written in another language if I hadn't read about it. On Christmas Day 2011, aid worker Khuram Shaikh from Rochdale ... More was on holiday in Sri Lanka when he broke up a fight in a bar. His selfless act would end in murder. A solid, enjoyable, Scandi noir read! Detective Lena Lorenzen is called out to the suicide of a fourteen-year-old girl on the small island of Föhrn part of the North Frisian islands. An area Lena is very aware of, an island she grew up on and left long ago. The investigation is led by DI Lena Lorenzen, and immediately she finds defiance and resistance from all directions. She and her colleague, Johann, make a great team. Soon they discover that Maria has actually been murdered and even her parents resent Lena’s probing questions. They belong to a rather puritanical religious cult, and so do many of the islanders, all with their strident beliefs.

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Floyd C. Gale of Galaxy Science Fiction called the book "an emotional wallop. It should be made mandatory reading for all professional diplomats and politicians." [11] Isaac Asimov said, "Surely to the science fiction fan—as opposed to the general public—this must seem very milk-and-watery. So there's a nuclear war to start the story with—and what else is new?" He described the novel as an example of what he called "'tomorrow fiction'", and "there can be nothing duller than tomorrow's headlines in science fiction". [12] [13] Brian Melican. "On the Beach Book Review". The Neville Shute Foundation . Retrieved 15 October 2013.

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I thought Death on the Beach was going to blow me away but honestly I got bored and dint finish it. Synopsis is really promising but I couldn’t get past how slow the story is. I didn't love this book- it was slow and felt like it just kind of ended without any build up. It focuses on Detective Lena Lorenzen, who is a detective called to investigate the disappearance of a 14 year old girl, Maria, on a remote island. They soon find the girl's body and Lena believes it's a murder rather than a suicide. The girl's parents are part of a religious sect and may or may not be holding secrets, causing them to not be that helpful to the investigation. Boyne said: “We knew nothing about Thailand being a corrupt place. A hell of a lot of people died on Koh Tao, I didn’t realise how many. I want to start by saying this is not a bad book, this review is based solely on personal enjoyment. The things I really liked about this book were the writing style which was unique and enjoyable, the island setting which is one of my favourites for a murder mystery and I loved the protagonist, detective Lena. We got to see not only her journey through the investigation but also her home life with family drama, relationship struggles and personal growth. Sometimes, I fail to realize that a book is part of a series when I initially request it. Unfortunately for me, this was the second in this series. I wasn't totally lost, but I think that I definitely could have benefited from reading the prior book, unless that is the American in me.

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Government services and the economy gradually grind to a halt. In the end, Towers chooses not to remain and die with Moira, but rather to lead his crew on a final mission to scuttle the submarine outside of Australian territorial waters. He refuses to allow his imminent demise to turn him aside from his duty to the US Navy, and he acts as a pillar of strength to his crew.This book is easy to read, one wants to find out what happens. The characters are all rounded, and one cares for them, because (or despite) their flaws. This is a well-constructed but complex story. The characters are well developed and realistic. They have problems and doubts and don’t always agree on procedure or lines of investigation, but Lena steers a tight ship and has the last word on those things. Usually, she’s right, as well. She has her own personal problems on the islands though. There’s her father with whom she hasn’t spoken in years that wants her forgiveness. Her island boyfriend may want to move their relationship up to the next level, as long-distance relations are far from ideal, but Lena is not quite ready for this. On top of that, a former one-night-stand joins her team for the investigation and he also might want more. She can relate very well to the victim, being brought up on the secluded islands that can feel as a prison and without the religious content though. Detective Lena Lorenzen is taking a few days vacation to stay with her boyfriend,when she receives a call from her superior to investigate a fourteen year old girl who went missing on an island village off the coast of Germany nearby where she is visiting. Lena is a dedicated detective and when she hears the missing person is a child she drops everything to help on this case. Lena is unprepared for the uncooperative reactions from the girl's parents and neighbors until she finds out that they all belong to a religious sect that has alienated themselves from the regular townsfolk and Lena will have to dig hard to find out why all the secrecy and cold indifference to her looking for information about the girl. A few days later the body.of a young girl is found dead on the beach. Now the detective will have more suspects than she can handle and why didn't the parents report their daughter missing and why was it their other estranged daughter Johanna who had alerted the police about her missing sister instead of their parents.