- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Abacus (May 30 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0349119635
- ISBN-13: 978-0349119632
- Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 19.8 x 1.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 100 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #192,383 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Ervine James is in incredibly good spirits - his Private Investigation business is going well, he has partially restored his tenuous link with his family, and his best friend of old and new partner Carmen Sinclair has proved to be more of an asset, both emotionally and financially, than he ever could have dreamed. But when a beautiful Asian woman appears outside the office next to his, a mysteriously secretive company rents the space for a few months before suddenly disappearing without trace, followed by arrival of police detectives investigating allegations of organized group homicides, Ervine and Carmen are drawn into a mystery so deep, so calculated in its intentions, neither believe that they could find out the truth behind that office door without risking their very lives...
About the Author
Courttia Newland is the author of THE SCHOLAR, SOCIETY WITHIN and SNAKESKIN. He has contributed to various anthologies including DISCO 2000, NEW WRITERS 8, AFROBEAT and TEENAGE KICKS.
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Too Much Time Wasted On Backstory of Main Character, Convenient Ending Also Lets This Short Story Down, Mar 30 2011
By James N Simpson - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: Quick Read Dying Wish (Paperback)
At times Newland's The Dying Wish pokes a smidgen of a good story through the pages every now and then. However it takes a long time to reach the main part of the plot, with the first half of the book wasting time on the main character PI Ervine James interacting with his office colleague, her kid which he picks up from school and recounting previous cases he worked on (I haven't read Newland's other books so am unsure if this character is from other books but if he is there's some serious spoilers of those plots given away). When the plot starts to kick off, of the discovery and hiring by local cops of PI James to get to the bottom of a company that buys the suicides and carries them out of those to cowardly to do it themselves, it gets sidetracks by the character attending a boring dinner, where James listens to the complaints of a friend about her roommates and the fact they're not putting in the effort to get a job. The actual suicide company interaction parts of the story are pretty interesting, there's lot of opportunities for the short story to follow some interesting paths such as a racist corporate boss being interviewed by PI James (who is dark skinned). However space seems to have run out to follow them. Disappointingly James learns the entire suicide corporation's history and operations by a convenient unloading of his burden by a character. Likewise he doesn't get out of a predicament at the end due to his own actions but instead is simply saved as the police turn up. If less of the 110 pages had been wasted on the irrelevant boring history, life and dinner of the main character and instead used to develop the suicide company scenes and ending this book could have been a great short story.
The Dying Wish is part of the Quick Reads series of books to increase literacy levels by encouraging those who don't like to read beyond magazines and comic books to try fiction through cheap priced short story length fiction and non fiction. The problem with The Dying Wish though is I don't think those reading this will be encouraged to pick up another book. There are some really good short stories in the Quick Reads series, this just isn't one of those.
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