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Anna Lee Mystery #2
Bad Company
Anna Lee and a young girl are held as prisoners, without any known reason, while the police force and her fellow private investigators conduct a desperate search
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First published January 1, 1982
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Liza Cody
94 books34 followersLiza Cody (real name Liza Nassim) is an English crime fiction writer.
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June 17, 2024
1979 - UK, London
first published 1982
A sulking grey sky hung about fifty feet over the rooftops, threatening but not yet drenching the North London street below. Anna drove slowly while she and Bernie inspected the area.
'No yellow lines,' Bernie approved, 'and no residents' permit either. That's a start.'
'What number?' Anna asked.
'Twenty-nine.'
But she had to drive well past the house before she could find a space to park. They walked back slowly under the dripping lime trees, Bernie humming quietly to himself and appearing to look at nothing.
Spannender als der erste Band, viel Zeit- und Sozialkolorit. Ich mag, dass es kein unglaubwürdiges Superheldentum gibt... in der Realität kommt man wahrscheinlich auch eher durch Glück als durch Tollkühnheit davon.
The curtains were beige too and covered with emerald green triffids fighting for supremacy.
😂 hübsche Beschreibung... weiß eigentlich heutzutage noch jemand, wer oder was "Triffids" sind?
Ich bin angefixt und hechte weiter in den dritten Band!
first published 1982
A sulking grey sky hung about fifty feet over the rooftops, threatening but not yet drenching the North London street below. Anna drove slowly while she and Bernie inspected the area.
'No yellow lines,' Bernie approved, 'and no residents' permit either. That's a start.'
'What number?' Anna asked.
'Twenty-nine.'
But she had to drive well past the house before she could find a space to park. They walked back slowly under the dripping lime trees, Bernie humming quietly to himself and appearing to look at nothing.
Spannender als der erste Band, viel Zeit- und Sozialkolorit. Ich mag, dass es kein unglaubwürdiges Superheldentum gibt... in der Realität kommt man wahrscheinlich auch eher durch Glück als durch Tollkühnheit davon.
The curtains were beige too and covered with emerald green triffids fighting for supremacy.
😂 hübsche Beschreibung... weiß eigentlich heutzutage noch jemand, wer oder was "Triffids" sind?
Ich bin angefixt und hechte weiter in den dritten Band!
May 27, 2026
When Anna tries to interfere with the kidnapping of a young girl, the motorcylce gang imprisons her as well. She fights for her life while her coworkers at the London security office scour London looking for her. Anna has shaken up the London underworld and the affair is about to turn bloody.
The second Anna Lee novel, I enjoyed this a lot (much better than the first, I have to admit), even though Anna spends most of her time locked away by the thugs. However, it does give her colleagues a chance to shine – especially Bernie Schiller – and the book is better for his presence and detecting skills. Originally published in 1982, this has a vibrancy to it and the story moves at a good pace, as the pieces slowly but surely fall into place. With a great sense of character, a keen eye for a location and a good story, this is very much recommended and I look forward to Book 3 now!
The second Anna Lee novel, I enjoyed this a lot (much better than the first, I have to admit), even though Anna spends most of her time locked away by the thugs. However, it does give her colleagues a chance to shine – especially Bernie Schiller – and the book is better for his presence and detecting skills. Originally published in 1982, this has a vibrancy to it and the story moves at a good pace, as the pieces slowly but surely fall into place. With a great sense of character, a keen eye for a location and a good story, this is very much recommended and I look forward to Book 3 now!
November 17, 2020
Very grateful to have had this author, and one of the very early female detective characters, recommended. I have gotten to like many of the characters in the first two mysteries in this series (Anna Lee), and am looking forward to reading the third soon!
January 18, 2019
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Thought this book was better than the first with getting to know the key characters in Ms Lee'e life. Thoroghly enjoyed the read.
Thought this book was better than the first with getting to know the key characters in Ms Lee'e life. Thoroghly enjoyed the read.
February 19, 2024
Engaging characters, fast easy read, and an ending that is not cut and dried ( and that's a good thing).
October 2, 2013
“Bad Company” proved to be a bad read.
The potential was there for a great crime thriller, but thrills are sadly missing here. It lacks an engaging narrative and compelling characters. I won’t give the ending away but will state that it left me dissatisfied.
What irritated beyond everything else was the excessive number of adverbs. If, as the saying goes, “The road to Hell is paved with adverbs”, then that road first passes through this book.
This is worst of all in the dialogue attribution, where the author tries to use a different adverb every time a character speaks: “he said conversationally,” “she said angrily,” etc. It’s distracting to the point that come halfway through the book, I would wonder which adverb was coming up whenever a character began to speak.
A good writer should be able to *show* the characters' emotions with actions, not rely on adverbs to *tell* the reader about it.
The potential was there for a great crime thriller, but thrills are sadly missing here. It lacks an engaging narrative and compelling characters. I won’t give the ending away but will state that it left me dissatisfied.
What irritated beyond everything else was the excessive number of adverbs. If, as the saying goes, “The road to Hell is paved with adverbs”, then that road first passes through this book.
This is worst of all in the dialogue attribution, where the author tries to use a different adverb every time a character speaks: “he said conversationally,” “she said angrily,” etc. It’s distracting to the point that come halfway through the book, I would wonder which adverb was coming up whenever a character began to speak.
A good writer should be able to *show* the characters' emotions with actions, not rely on adverbs to *tell* the reader about it.
August 22, 2007
Really expands Anna's world by telling the story from the POV of her detective colleagues as well as herself. Defeats the expectations of the genre by not having the case all tidily wrapped up at the end.
January 24, 2010
Interesting for the observations on the behaviour of two very different personalities when locked up in a cellar.
November 19, 2020
I found this book confusing, I didn't find a point to it. The main character didn't achieve anything from her ordeal as far as I could tell.
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November 8, 2018Synopsis: when Anna is abducted by a motorcycle gang, her colleagues discover that the incident is linked to a major gangland murder in London.
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