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De esta autora, tristemente fallecida en el 2021, sólo había leído “La luz tras la ventana”. Me gustó, aunque no me cautivó. La serie de las siete hermanas no me atraía lo más mínimo, pero resulta que LR había escrito un policial, allá por el año 2006, que, por lo que sea no se atrevió a publicar. Ahora su hijo lo rescata y lo da a conocer a sus seguidores. Y me alegro. Reunited with her loyal Sergeant, Alastair Miles, she enters the closed world of the school, and as Jazz begins to probe the circumstances surrounding Charlie Cavendish’s tragic death, events are soon to take another troubling turn. My biggest problem with this book is the setting. For me it doesn´t fit the overall vibe. To think that this book was published in 2021 and is supposed to be set in 2005, it really does give of some "older vibes" with all it´s misogony, sexism and homophobia. Leave the phones out and it could easily be the 1900´s, the thinking and the tone/language just don´t feel modern. I hated the portrayal of psychologist and therapy, it fits the "older thinking" I mentioned above. I also hated the constant "Boys will be boys" as excuse for anything and everything. Cheating, bullying, etc. "Oh, boys will be boys you know." Stfu. This really made the book not enjoyable for me which is such a shame since the book had so much potential, the case was interesting and I liked the idea of it. I think if all the other stuff would have been left out it could have been a 3,5 star or 4 star book. What also bugged me is that somehow the requirement of confidentiality doesn´t reply to them....They go babbling off about case details to everybody and their mother. The pacing was okay, although it really felt slow for me at times. I liked some of the twists but most of them you could see coming with how the book was set up. Lucinda Riley was born in 1965 in Ireland, and after an early career as an actress in film, theatre and television, wrote her first book aged twenty-four. Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and continue to strike an emotional chord with all cultures around the world. ‘The Seven Sisters’ series specifically has become a global phenomenon, creating its own genre, and there are plans to create a seven-season TV series.
Then, a particularly grim discovery at the school makes this the most challenging murder investigation of her career. Because Fleat House hides secrets darker than even Jazz could ever have imagined . . . Creo que LR hubiera podido sacar de esta primera entrega una serie dedicada a la detective Jazz Hunter bastante decente. Por momentos me ha recordado a Agatha Christie, y también me ha traído a la memoria a Ann Cleves e incluso a M.W. Craven, aunque estos tienen un nivel de enganche superior. “Asesinato en…” es en ese sentido bastante simplona. Nada que ver con J.D. Barker ni similares. Es una lectura relajada, donde no hay escenas escabrosas ni grandes giros. Para leer con una taza de té (al que le guste) y una mantita. Y si hay una chimenea cercana aun disfrutarás más de lo que aquí se cuenta. Pero no esperéis un policial que no os deje respirar. Aquí no lo hallaréis. As Jazz begins to probe the circumstances surrounding Charlie’s death, more bodies start to pile up. In this latest novel by Riley, The Murders at Fleat House , she transports us to Norfolk, England, home to St. Stephen’s School, an elite boarding school that has all the usual fare, entitled students, unrelenting bullies, ghost stories, favouritism, and a history of scandals, violence, and death that may be about to repeat itself.The other two books were The Butterfly Room, and The Olive Tree (which is also called Helena’s Secret), and both of those books have also been released. These two books were released before Lucinda’s death in 2021, and in fact, Lucinda herself apparently did extensive rewrites of her own work before they were published. So yes, this section isn’t really about something I didn’t like in the book, but rather more about what I did like. DI Jazz Hunter is a fascinating and intriguing character. She is at a crossroads in her life after leaving the Metropolitan Police in London after her divorce from a fellow detective. Norfolk is a new start for her, she wants a quiet life where she can paint and live life at a much slower pace. As a detective she is repected by her contemporites and her superiors as well which is why she is asked to lead the murder investigation. I liked that we got to see all the sides of Jazz’s character; her analytic and methodical investigate technique, her venerability after her divorce and her love and care for her parents. The same attention is paid to the cast of supporting characters who open up the story and many of whom I felt real empathy for, of course there are a few who a very dislikable to say the least.
Do you prefer to listen to your books rather than read them? A lot of people do. It’s great to be able to listen while you’re driving, taking public transportation, maybe while you’re working out, or even perhaps while you’re cooking! Los personajes esbozados lo justo según los cánones del género. Me ha gustado, Jazz, la inspectora protagonista, sus dotes como investigadora, la familia que tiene, así como sus circunstancias personales y cómo las afronta. The death of Lucinda Riley from cancer at the age of only 56 last year truly is a tragedy - not just for her family, but for the Bookloving World - she was at the height of her success with the Seven Sisters series, and who knows what else she would’ve gone on to write. This, her only crime novel, was written in 2006, and while complete, was not “finished”. Her son, Harry Whittaker, a writer himself, explains in the foreword that his dilemma was whether to publish it as it was, or rewrite and update it. He chose to honour his mother by leaving it unchanged, which I respect, but it means that this is not as good as it could’ve been with comprehensive editing and correction of various mistakes. She was such a compelling story-teller however, that this was still a very enjoyable mystery.For this reason, I wish to tell you how The Murders at Fleat House came to be. Firstly, although it has never seen the light of day, it was written in 2006. Once her youngest children had started school, Lucinda penned three novels without a publisher, two of which have subsequently been released to great acclaim – The Olive Tree (also called Helena’s Secret) and The Butterfly Room. It was always her plan to publish the third of these novels, The Murders at Fleat House , after the conclusion of The Seven Sisters series. ‘I felt that preserving Mum’s voice should take precedence’ As staff at the school close ranks, the disappearance of young pupil Rory Millar and the death of an elderly Classics Master provide Jazz with important leads but are destined to complicate the investigation further. As snow covers the landscape and another suspect goes missing, Jazz must also confront her own personal demons… In collaboration with her son Harry Whittaker, she also devised and wrote a series of books for children called ‘ The Guardian Angels’ series. As staff at the school close ranks, the disappearance of young pupil Rory Millar and the death of an elderly Classics Master provide Jazz with important leads, but are destined to complicate the investigation further. As snow covers the landscape and another suspect goes missing, Jazz must also confront her own personal demons . . . Lucinda Riley è un’autrice molto famosa ma io non avevo letto nulla di suo. Non so per qualche motivo, le sue storie pensavo non facessero per me... poi però è arrivato un romanzo giallo, unico di questo genere scritto da questa donna che ci ha lasciato troppo presto, un peccato perché è stata una lettura molto bella e c’era il potenziale per una nuova saga crime con i fiocchi!
The Murders at Fleat House is not an adrenaline-rush thriller but at no point in the story, does the reader feel any lapse in pacing. The police procedural that shows the inquiries leading to more than one murder inside Fleat house is a ‘one thread leading to another puzzle’ type that untangles in a steady manner. I had guessed the culprit in the beginning but was happy with the author’s jumbled yarn that linked the past and present into one engrossing narrative. Tenemos un escenario principal que es el internado inglés St.Stephen, enmarcado en una zona rural de Inglaterra. Una muerte que investigar y una serie de personajes que iremos conociendo a lo largo de los capítulos.
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In collaboration with her son Harry Whittaker, she also devised and wrote a series of books for children called The Guardian Angels. However, one manuscript remained unpublished. Lucinda’s first and only crime novel, which she wrote while her children were young, sixteen years ago.
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