Peter Ralph

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Collins Street Whores

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Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Crime Fiction

After years of study and hard work, the strikingly beautiful Carmen Minelli finally achieves her dream of attaining a senior position with the most respected stockbroker in the land - J.D. Ford & Co.

Special Interests: 
Finance
Stockbroking
ISBN: 
1877059870
Location: 
Melbourne
Publisher: 
Sid Harta
Year of Publication: 
2004

The CEO

Submitted by Karen on

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Thriller

Blurb About the Book

Douglas Aspine knew that being CEO of a public company was twenty times more lucrative than winning the lottery. He was forty-five and time was running out when fate dealt him an unexpected opportunity.

The company was old, staid and well-respected but it was underperforming and Aspine was determined to turn it around no matter who he had to crush or how many toes he had to stand on.

ISBN: 
9781877096952
Year of Publication: 
2007

COLLINS STREET WHORES - Peter Ralph

Author Information
Book Title: 
Collins Street Whores
Author Name: 
Peter Ralph
Author's Home Country: 
Australia
ISBN: 
1877059870
Categorisation
Category: 
Crime Fiction
Special Interests: 
Finance
Stockbroking
Publisher: 
Sid Harta
Year of Publication: 
2004

Book Review: 

Collins Street Whores starts off very evocatively (for me at least) with a powerful motorbike being ridden along the Dandenong Tourist Road - a hop skip and a jump from our front door.  Unfortunately for me, the interest in the story waned pretty soon after that.  Overall the plot is fairly good, but there were too many elements in COLLINS STREET WHORES that just didn't work for me.  Granted this could be because anything "financial" has a tendency to bring me out in hives, but more so because there were too many characters to just not care about that much.  Possibly the idea that the central woman had to be beautiful and strong and competent and rich and driving the big flash car to make her a central character, possibly the relationship between her and the "boy from the rougher side of life" sort of just clanged a bit.  Possibly it was because a lot of the plot elements weren't that hard to see coming, but that they took a long time to come could have been the problem.
 
Collins Street Whores is not a badly written book or anything, I guess, ultimately the problem for me was that it didn't have that something different, that element that grabbed me and held my attention and I just struggled to stay focused on the story.
 
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