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A mystery about a missing girl and a secretive church in a small English village from an author known for "character and psychological insight" (The Washington Post). On a blistering summer weekend, as all of England rushes to the seashore, Det. Inspector Luke Thanet is looking forward to a few days off to putter around his garden and forget the stresses of his job. A famously soft-hearted detective, Thanet takes every crime personally, and he's overdue for a break. But when a young girl show more goes missing, it's all hands on deck. Thanet will move heaven and earth to bring Charity Pritchard home alive. But do her parents even want her found? Charity's family belongs to a strict fundamentalist religious order, and they insist that the investigation of her disappearance be left up to God. But when the holy approach fails tragically and Charity is found brutally murdered, Thanet and his partner, the impetuous young Mike Lineham, will tear the church apart to find her killer. "A well-crafted [and] compelling mystery novel," Close Her Eyes is part of the acclaimed Inspector Thanet series, which includes CWA Silver Dagger winner Last Seen Alive (The Armchair Detective). Close Her Eyes is the 4th book in the Inspector Thanet Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. show lessTags
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I had not read any of the Detective Inspector Luke Thanet series before and I read these all at once. In the introduction to the first one, Ms Simpson explains that she spent her professional career as a marriage counselor and that she found some inspiration for her plots in the psychological insights she gained as a therapist. That admission coloured my reading of the books, as did my familiarity with the early run of Midsommer Murders, a long-running UK TV series.
Luke Thanet and Tom Barnaby share a smarminess about their home lives and marriages that I find repulsive. In the case of Luke Thanet, I read Ms Simpson's efforts to teach responsive marriage techniques and her idea of how a married man should act. She even drags DI Thanet's show more assistant, Mike Lineman, his controlling mother and his suffering wife into it. Yuck.
The mysteries are OK but nothing special.
I don't need this series.
I received review copies of "Close Her Eyes", "Puppet for a Corpse", and "Six Feet Under" by Dorothy Simpson (Open Road Integrated Media) through NetGalley.com. show less
Luke Thanet and Tom Barnaby share a smarminess about their home lives and marriages that I find repulsive. In the case of Luke Thanet, I read Ms Simpson's efforts to teach responsive marriage techniques and her idea of how a married man should act. She even drags DI Thanet's show more assistant, Mike Lineman, his controlling mother and his suffering wife into it. Yuck.
The mysteries are OK but nothing special.
I don't need this series.
I received review copies of "Close Her Eyes", "Puppet for a Corpse", and "Six Feet Under" by Dorothy Simpson (Open Road Integrated Media) through NetGalley.com. show less
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Dorothy Simpson is a mystery writer. Her character, Inspector Luke Thanet, has solved upper-crust mysteries in more than a dozen novels. Her novel, Last Seen Alive, received a Silver Dagger Award from the Crime Writers of America in 1985. Another book, The Maine Islands in Story and Legend, was written with information gathered by the Maine show more Writers Research Club. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Cerró Sus Ojos
- Original title
- Close Her Eyes
- Original publication date
- 1984
- People/Characters
- Inspector Luke Thanet; Mike Lineham; Charity Pritchard; Margaret Bolton; Veronica Hodges
- Important places
- Sturrenden, Kent, England, UK; Kent, England, UK
- Epigraph
- Stone walls do not a prison make
Nor iron bars a cage
Richard Lovelace
1618-58 - Dedication
- TO ANNE
- First words
- The news that a young girl is missing is likely to penetrate the armour of the most hard-bitten policeman, and Thanet was anything but that.
- Original language*
- Inglés
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