The Gauguin connection

a Genevieve Lenard novel

430 pages

English language

Published Nov. 14, 2012

ISBN:
978-1-4801-2298-7
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OCLC Number:
1001922992

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3 stars (1 review)

As an insurance investigator and world renowned expert in nonverbal communication, Dr. Genevieve Lenard faces the daily challenge of living a successful, independent life. Particularly because she has to deal with her high functioning autism. Nothing--not her studies, her high IQ or her astounding analytical skills--prepared her for the changes about to take place in her life. It started as a favour to help her boss' acerbic friend look into the murder of a young artist, but soon it proves to be far more complex. Forced out of her predictable routines, safe environment and limited social interaction, Genevieve is thrown into exploring the meaning of friendship, expanding her social definitions, and for the first time in her life be part of a team in a race to stop more artists from being murdered.

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reviewed The Gauguin connection by Estelle Ryan (Genevieve Lenard series -- book 1)

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3 stars

It took me awhile to really commit to this book, I thought about not finishing it several times in the first few chapters. I realize that the main character has ASD-related difficulties dealing with people, but the result (at first) is a rebarbative personality that, combined with the first-person telling of the story, repeatedly put me off. Perhaps the added distance of third-person would have helped. Anyway, she is forced into accepting changes in her life and as she adapts to those changes she becomes less rigid and more accepting, and those changes and perhaps the added depth of character helped me to start caring about her and the story outcome. The tale itself is not bad, although fairly predictable at times. Overall I ended up enjoying it enough that I am glad I stuck with it.

Subjects

  • Autistic people
  • Murder
  • Investigation
  • Artists
  • Women insurance investigators
  • Crimes against
  • Fiction