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

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It is interesting to note that Lena’s own complicated private life becomes entangled in her professional investigation, which for me added to the enjoyment of the plot. Throughout it all, Lena showed her tenacious character to finally reveal who committed this heinous crime. There are several red herrings, leading to a dramatic conclusion. The other issue I had with this story was the ending. While not being completely out of the blue it felt a bit unsatisfying. The author could keep my interest alive in the entire book. I was eager to know what had happened to the child. Lena was quite determined to get to the truth.

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

Kearney, Cresson (1987). Nuclear War Survival Skills. Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. p.11. ISBN 0-942487-01-X. 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. And, while the Tuwichian family - who are “like the Mafia” in Koh Tao - have always denied playing any part in these deaths, many of the parents are certain they had something to do with their children suddenly dying. Spate of suspicious deaths Small island life on Fohr where Detective Lena Lorenzen arrives to take charge of the investigation of missing school girl Maria. She finds a very religious closed community who close ranks when a body on the beach is found. This is a good solid police story where our Detective follows the clues but has to switch off any prejudices against how Maria had been raised in her deeply religious family. Had she tried to rebel or had something more terrible happened. Our police officers will find their own relationships and childhood will influence them in this investigation. A great setting which really gives you the flavour of how many secrets can be hidden on a small Island.

In a new Sky documentary, Death On The Beach, families open up on how they believe Thai police covered up what really happened to their loved ones. 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. 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. This is the 2nd book I have read by this author. It is refreshing to read a book set somewhere a little different and I have been inspired to visit this part of the world.

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But the local residents—even the girl’s own parents—won’t cooperate with her investigation. The devoutly religious islanders are clearly hiding something. But what ungodly secret could possibly lead to the murder of an innocent teenage girl?The expedition members then sail to an abandoned navy communications school south of Seattle. A crewman sent ashore with oxygen tanks and protective gear discovers that although the city's residents have long since perished, some of the region's hydroelectric power is still working due to primitive automation technology. He finds that the mysterious radio signal is the result of a broken window sash swinging in the breeze and occasionally hitting a telegraph key. After a brief stop at Pearl Harbor, the remaining submariners return to Australia to live out what little time they have left. Suzanne believes the Tuwichian family and the Thai police covered up what really happened to all these British tourists - killed because they were asking questions. 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. Book 2 in this Island Mystery series. This second novel has for me established this as a new crime / police procedural set of stories set among the North Frisian islands.

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It’s hard to explain because I’d be annoyed at Chrissy if she even took an accidental overdose. I’d think, ‘What a waste.’” 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. He had been told by someone on the island that Christina had been killed because “she was going around asking questions [about former deaths on the island] and taking photos of the beach. Detective Lena Lorenzen is on holiday when she is asked to investigate the disappearance of Maria, a fourteen year old girl from the nearby island of Fohr. Her superior has interrupted her holiday because the girl belongs to a religious sect that his wife supports. Lena finds Maria's parents very difficult to talk to, as their attitude is far from helpful! Maria's sister, who is estranged from her family is the one desperately keen to find her. A body is found on the beach. At first suicide is suspected but then it is proven that it is murder. Who would want to murder her & why? Lena has a hard time trying to find out the truth. She claims her friend witnessed the owner of the biggest diving company on the island "assassinated in broad daylight" by someone in relation to this family, and says they are "above the law" in Thailand.

However, I found the ending to be somewhat anti-climatic and wondering where the result came from. All that time spent on puzzling it out for something and nothing? It felt a little out of left field and disappointing. All the elements are presented as they occur and you’re never certain if a person is only a witness or a suspect after all. The smells of sea and salt on the islands are mentioned on several occasions, as are the culinary delights but I miss the visual descriptions of both nature and village. But of course, it’s not a tourist guide or documentary. I certainly want to read more books from this writer and it’s a shame that they haven’t been translated into Dutch (to my knowledge) as the other half of the Wadden Sea belongs to The Netherlands. Not that they’re not good enough to merit a translation on quality alone. Due to her local knowledge and as a safe pair of hands. Lena is asked to oversee the hunt for a missing teenager. It is a sensitive case as the young girl’s family belong to a conservative religious congregation. Her boss declares an interest in avoiding negative publicity and allows her a wide scope of investigation with resources when it appears the young woman may have been murdered. Classic Serial: On the Beach (November 2008), BBC Radio 4 broadcast a full-cast audio dramatization in two-hour-long episodes, as part of their Classic Serial strand. [16] There was also a mysterious Swedish man who cropped up in the police report, apparently with Chrissie the night she died.

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Episodes 7 mins ago The Late Show With Stephen Colbert: Pete Buttigieg, Willie Nelson (NBC Thursday November 2, 2023)Like the first book it is an engaging and enjoyable read with the main crime story moving along at a good pace whilst the main characters are allowed to grow. 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." 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] The fast-paced storyline follows Detective Inspector Lena Lorenzen from CID in Kiel, Germany, as she leverages her no nonsense and tough-minded investigative skills to this intense drama to find the murderer of a fourteen-year-old girl on an isolated German island. Lena Lorenzen in on holiday on her home island of Amrun, after a first case during which she rekindled her relationship with her boyfriend of fourteen years ago. Her Superintendent asks her, as a favour, to help local authorities to look into the disappearance of a teenage girl on the neighbour island of Föhr, whose parents belong to a extreme conservative free church considered a sect by most of the islanders. Her relationship with her DSU having improved thanks to her first case, she accepts the assignment.