- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Pan Books; New edition edition (23 July 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330354892
- ISBN-13: 978-0330354899
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.4 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 784,753 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When Joni Poelma went missing, Max Chard's paper had put out a reward for information leading to her whereabouts. Unfortunately the paper forgot the proviso that they wanted her alive. For Joni turns up dead in a Dulwich park. Chard covers the story, and finds out more than he bargained for.
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'THE FUNNIEST READ OF THE YEAR' THE SUN
When millionaire's au pair Joni Poelma goes missing, reporter Max Chard's newspaper puts out a reward for information. Unfortunately they forget to mention that they want her found alive. And now Joni has turned up - very dead.
When millionaire's au pair Joni Poelma goes missing, reporter Max Chard's newspaper puts out a reward for information. Unfortunately they forget to mention that they want her found alive. And now Joni has turned up - very dead.
'A gripping journey ... Burn's triumph is the creation of the hard-bitten anti-hero Max Chard. Express --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This is the second book from John Burns to feature the investigative reporter, Max Chard. As in the first book, Hack, this story begins with a dead body and little by little, events, facts and characters are uncovered, leading Max to hunt down and discover the identity of the killer.
His investigative style is entertaining, his interviewing technique is a delight in the course of which, there is a ream of humour, maybe a quire of characters who amuse and titillate the reader and certainly moments when you chuckle out aloud. Even so, murder is a serious business and Max treats it as such beneath the outward show of nonchalance and brio. In this book, Max is also having to watch his back in the newspaper department as wheels within wheels at the Gazette where he works are thinking about a change of job for some of their staff, including Max.
His social life with the delightful Rosie is still as bewildering as in the first book. Max's liver must slowly be diminishing to the size of a pea, either that or he's on a retainer to Gordon's Gin. Whichever (or both) he manages very well to recover each morning to do his job at the paper and find time to work out who killed the au pair at the beginning of the book. Along the way, another body turns up, again the death is drug related pushing Max into an area he knows not much about but which proves to be the route he has to follow.
All-in-all, this is an excellent read, a world away from gory serial killers and manic superheroes and one which gently reminds us that quite a lot has changed since the 90s and quite a lot hasn't!
His investigative style is entertaining, his interviewing technique is a delight in the course of which, there is a ream of humour, maybe a quire of characters who amuse and titillate the reader and certainly moments when you chuckle out aloud. Even so, murder is a serious business and Max treats it as such beneath the outward show of nonchalance and brio. In this book, Max is also having to watch his back in the newspaper department as wheels within wheels at the Gazette where he works are thinking about a change of job for some of their staff, including Max.
His social life with the delightful Rosie is still as bewildering as in the first book. Max's liver must slowly be diminishing to the size of a pea, either that or he's on a retainer to Gordon's Gin. Whichever (or both) he manages very well to recover each morning to do his job at the paper and find time to work out who killed the au pair at the beginning of the book. Along the way, another body turns up, again the death is drug related pushing Max into an area he knows not much about but which proves to be the route he has to follow.
All-in-all, this is an excellent read, a world away from gory serial killers and manic superheroes and one which gently reminds us that quite a lot has changed since the 90s and quite a lot hasn't!
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