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

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It was a good story but I figured the killer very early on which is not always the case for me! I also liked that Lena had a personal life and this was very much part of the story as well. It added a different perspective to the story too. Shute's initial story was published as a four-part series, The Last Days on Earth, in the London weekly periodical Sunday Graphic, in April 1957. For the novel, Shute expanded the storyline. [4] The story has been adapted twice as a film (in 1959 and 2000) and once as a BBC radio broadcast in 2008. Second instalment in the "Island Mystery" series, "Death on the beach" is a good example of a pretty entertaining police procedural. The submarine travels to the Gulf of Alaska in the northern Pacific Ocean, where the crew determines that radiation levels are not decreasing. This finding discredits the "Jorgensen Effect", a scientific theory positing that radiation levels will decrease at a much greater rate than previously thought, aided by the weather effects, and potentially allow for human life to continue in southern Australia or at least Antarctica.

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Episodes 7 mins ago The Late Show With Stephen Colbert: Pete Buttigieg, Willie Nelson (NBC Thursday November 2, 2023) The case turns out to be a complex one with enquiries leading them in new directions and further questioning ensues. It appears that Maria Logener was not who everyone thought she was...but of course the investigation can't move forward without the victimology. Soon witnesses become persons of interest - teachers, friends, students - as the last days of Maria's life is slowly revealed.In 2015 Chrissie Annesley travelled to the paradise island of Koh Tao for the trip of a lifetime. Two weeks later she was found dead in her beach hut, the latest in a tragic roll call of young travellers to have died under mysterious circumstances on this most remote of Thailand’s islands. This documentary asks whether Chrissie and the others were victims of misadventure or part of a series of violent murders. The locations are stunningly shared within the story. The subject matter always a difficult one is approached with great insight and respect. The death is treated with care and without sensational detail. The family links as well as the closed Christian sect are explored in an open and honest way. Judgemental opinion and views are set aside as understanding and tolerance are built into the story. 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." 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. The reason, I didn’t make this a 4 🌟, is simply that I felt the end was rushed. The body of the book was excellent but I felt like when it came to exposing the killer, the author was ready to hang up her hat. I needed a bit more at the end. That taaaa-daaaa moment you remember about the book weeks later.

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None of the local residents, even the girl's parents, want to cooperate with the Detective. The cult, devoutly religious islanders, are definitly hiding something, but what could it be? Has it something to do with the murder? DI Lena Lorenzen is the lead investigator who holds it all together with her personal links to the locations and her thorough police methods. Managing and leading her team with passion, diligence and long hours of hard work. A 14 year old girl is found dead on the beach, she's a member of a highly devout religious sect. The police procedural part was what is to be expected. Lena Lorenzen is in charge of the investigation, pulled away from her vacation with her long lost childhood sweetheart. Again, the story was good, but nothing heart pounding that stood out. DESPITE its flawless beaches and crystal seas, Thailand has earned a deadly reputation after 60 Brits died there between 2014 and 2016 alone.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.

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The lead character is Detective Lena Lorenzen. She has a boyfriend that she can’t make up her mind about....her indecisiveness started to get a bit tiring to read about. Overall, I really enjoyed the story plot and writing style. I very much look forward to reading the next book in this series. 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. Hampshire Police was called to Southsea beach off Eastern Parade in Portsmouth at 6.39am today after the body was found.

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] 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?

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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. Still searching for answers all this time later, he is seen in the documentary going to a toxicologist “for a second opinion” - as he continuously comments that it was strange Chrissie was “found with blood emanating from her nose”, despite dying of an overdose. 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. This was my first read by Anna Johannsen and it is certainly a fast-paced crime thriller! It is the second book in ‘The Island Mystery Series’ which can also be read independently. He finishes: “If by some miracle I get all the answers, I’d feel relieved in one sense but empty in another sense.

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.’” Episodes 7 mins ago Who’s On The Talk Today: Lauralee Bell, Michael Damian (CBS Thursday November 2, 2023) A fourteen-year-old girl disappears on the small island of Föhr, and Detective Lena Lorenzen is called in to investigate. When the girl’s bloodied body is found on the beach with vicious wounds to the wrist, Lena immediately suspects that what’s been made to look like suicide was in fact a brutal and calculated murder. A police spokeswoman told The Sun: ‘We were called at 6.39am today (Tuesday 31 October) to a report that a body had been located on the beach on Eastern Parade in Portsmouth.

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