Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence
Honour Among Men: An Inspector Green Mystery
オタワ川の遺体から始まる捜査が、軍歴、過去の暴力、政治の現在へつながっていく警察小説。グリーン警部のシリーズらしく、事件の背後にある倫理と責任を問う。
作品情報
オタワ川の遺体から始まる捜査が、軍歴、過去の暴力、政治の現在へつながっていく警察小説。
オタワ川の遺体から始まる捜査が、軍歴、過去の暴力、政治の現在へつながっていく警察小説。グリーン警部のシリーズらしく、事件の背後にある倫理と責任を問う。 受賞作としての初出や収録状況を確認し、単独書籍または収録書籍が確認できる場合のみ書誌識別子を採用した。
レビュー要約
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題材の輪郭と語り口の個性が受け止められている。物語の余韻や人物の置かれた状況に注目する読者が多い一方、展開の癖を好みが分かれる点として見る声もある。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Napoleon and Co
- 発売日
- 2006-09-01
- ページ数
- 352ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.03 x 2.08 x 19.08 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781894917360
- ISBN-10
- 1894917367
- 価格
- 3650 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Mystery
Inspector Green is coping with an office job, still eager to get back into the day-to-day fray of policing. His chance comes when an unidentified woman is drowned in the Ottawa River. In her possession is a Medal for Bravery from a peacekeeping mission. As Green and his team dig deeper into the military past, Green finds himself sucked not only into the murky past of a peacekeeping unit but into the high-stakes present of a federal election race. What crime was committed in Yugoslavia more than a decade ago? Is someone still killing to prevent that secret from coming to light? And does the diary of a dead soldier hold the key?
Barbara Fradkin is a retired psychologist who is fascinated with why people turn bad. She has written numerous short stories and novellas as well as the critically acclaimed Inspector Green novels. Two of these, Fifth Son and Honour Among Men , have won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel. She lives in Ottawa.
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Excellent Read
I’ve enjoyed all of the Inspector Green Mystery series, but this was the best one to date. In reading them in order so expect more fine writing in the rest of the series. This book was well put together, a good story with lots of twists and turns and several stories within the main story. Superb.
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Great Series
This is an excellent CANADIAN series, I was introduced to Barbara Fradkin's charactor through the title "The Whisper Of Legends" while researching The Nahhani River and R M Patterson.
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A great Canadian Mystery
Barbara Fradkin's mysteries are a must for expat Canadians. The settings in Ottawa and Ontario add a great deal. Her books however do stand on their own for fascinating stories and an appealing detective.
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Five Stars
Excellent.
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Less interesting that others in the series
I found this entry in the life of Inspector Green less interesting than the others. I think that is because this one involves the inner workings of the military, a topic which does not interest me at all. Yes, there is some overlap between members of the police and members of the military. Yes, the upper echelons of both are quite political. Yes, there is action and betrayal and suspicious death, but this book is just not as enjoyable as others in the series.