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Title: Desperate Measures by Kate Wilhelm, Marguerite Gavin, Richard Phillips Feynman, Richard Todd ISBN: 0-7861-2212-9 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: leaves you wanting more!
Comment: Barbara Holloway takes on yet another difficult, unusual case. But this time her father is on the same case. Different suspect. Can they sort out their relationship enough to remain father and daughter? Or will the lawyer in them both make life unbearable as each tries to make their case for their client?
Fantastic character development and descriptions.
Rating: 5
Summary: An unusual premise
Comment: In this mystery,Kate Wilhelm uses a disfigured man as the main suspect for a murder and as the story unfolds she makes us aware of how much importance society places on looks.I thought this was an unusual premise for a murder mystery.As always her books are suspenseful,surprising and this story also has a happy ending.I highly recommend this author especially if you love the Pacific Northwest.
Rating: 2
Summary: Very disappointing - too much bias
Comment: As usual, Ms. Wilhelm created a great story, with plenty of twists and turns to keep the mind guessing. However, it smacked of bias.
The character of the murdered man, Gus Marchand, is flat. He's just a bad guy. He calls himself a Christian, but he is a hateful, bigoted, controlling man who demeans his wife and beats his children. There is no other side to this man, no balance, no reason for why he is such a person. It is as though Marchand has no good feelings about anything or anyone, and everything he has ever done is bad. Towards the end of the book, Barbara Holloway blames Marchand for everything, even the murder of a woman by her lover who feared he would be exposed, because "Gus Marchand was a zealot who was determined to impose his belief system on everyone around him."
In fact, anyone clearly identified as a Christian is painted with a broad brush of bias. The wife is a weak-willed woman willing to submit to Marchand's domination of the home and abusive manner towards those in the community who don't share his beliefs. The pastor of the Baptist church Marchand attended saw Marchand as a good, honest man who never lied, a hero in the home, and at the end of his testimony in court, he appeared the buffoon as he loudly launched into a prayer to protect the daughter from the devil. Many of the townspeople, who were also members of Marchand's church in the rural Oregon town, blindly followed along with his hateful rhetoric, and were too often just stupid.
Characters not associated as Christians were real people, humans that showed compassion, felt pain and anger, had high principles but demonstrated flaws, and so on. So much was well-written: one felt ill for the hatred and abuse Alex had wrongly received over the years. Unfortunately, it just appeared to have too much bias against one group to suit my tastes.
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Title: Defense for the Devil by Kate Wilhelm ISBN: 1551666286 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: No Defense by Wilhelm ISBN: 1551667851 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Death Qualified by Kate Wilhelm ISBN: 1551668726 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Skeletons by Kate Wilhelm ISBN: 1551667495 Publisher: Harlequin Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Deepest Water by Kate Wilhelm ISBN: 1551668467 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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