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

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

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

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I’m a bit of an armchair sleuth. I love a good mystery or police procedural show. Much to my husband’s dismay, I often holler out who I am certain the culprit is when we are only 20% of the way through the program. If you’re a fellow Nancy Drew, this book was a fun read. Set on an island off the Danish coast, the people are already well known to each other. Everyone seems to be stone walling the detectives and pressure is mounting to solve the case at the earliest. Even in this day and age arranged marriages within the community, implicit obedience, and the husband as head of the house prevents the detectives from getting any information vital to the case. 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.

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It was an entertaining enough police procedural but I would have liked a bit more personal growth on the main character, but hopefully we'll see some of that on book 3. The 2000 film ends with a quote from Walt Whitman's poem "On the Beach at Night", describing how a father comforts his small daughter who is frightened as an approaching cloud bank blots out the evening stars one by one. [7] Although Whitman's poem resembles the plot of Shute's novel, the book does not reference it, as it does Eliot's poem.

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I loved this book which is the second is the series. It is mainly set in the Frisian Islands. Detective Inspector, Lena Lorenzen is part of the Kiel CiD in Schleswig-Holstein. Lena goes to spend a few days with her boyfriend on the island of Fohr. Her break is interrupted by news of the disappearance of a schoolgirl, Maria. Lena starts to investigate. Maria’s body turns up on a beach a couple of days later. At first it appears to be suicide but Lena is not convinced. Maria and her parents belong to a religious cult connected to the Mennonites. There are many suspects. Can Lena find out what happened?

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At the onset it seems as if the parents do not care - her father did not even join the group in its initial search and this strikes most people as odd but Lena the detective knows there is more than meets the eye. Is everyone actually shielding the murderer and how do they unravel the very few pieces of evidence they have to link to their killer.The whole police procedural part of the book is captivating, and it’s not a book you want to put down. It unfortunately all leads to quite an anticlimactic ending, making the reader feel like he spent time working to solve the puzzle for nothing. Not that it isn’t realistic, in a police investigation sense, but realistic doesn’t always make for good crime books endings. This is the second book in The Island Mystery series and readers who enjoy crime/police procedurals should put this one on their reading list. It has an interesting mix of characters, a great setting and a plot to keep you hooked right to the end. 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. The Australian government provides citizens with free suicide pills and injections so they can avoid prolonged suffering from radiation poisoning. Periodic reports show the steady southward progression of the deadly radiation. As communications are lost with a city, it is referred to as being "out."



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