Based on a True Story
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Today I know that L. is the sole reason for my powerlessness. And that the two years that we were...
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The Devil and the Dark Water
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A murder on the high seas. A detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist. It's 1634 and...
Unbound: A Stone Barrington Novel
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Stone Barrington is pulled along for the ride when a friend pursues a perilous course of vengeance...
thriller suspense
Broken Angels
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Fifty years after the events of ALTERED CARBON, Takeshi Kovacs is serving as a mercenary in the...
My Ripper Hunting Days
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After many years spent writing his novel in the United States, Canada and Mexico, Bernard Boley's...
A Plague Among Us (Mimi Goldman Chautauqua Mysteries #8)
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When Al Martin, the editor of a satiric newspaper in Chautauqua, N.Y., reportedly dies of COVID-19,...
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Ross (3284 KP) rated Perfect Remains: A Gripping Thriller That Will Leave You Breathless in Books
Aug 30, 2018 (Updated Aug 30, 2018)
As the reader is made aware of the "murderer"'s identity from very early on, this feels more like an early Mark Billingham book than an Ian Rankin or Ed James. Not a true whodunit, more of a case of watching the story unfold, which is thrilling and you get to see the criminal and the detective's view of the events, but may put others off.
While the story is very well crafted, the pacing is top notch and the action exciting, a few aspects irritated me at times. Luc Callanach seems to have coped very well with his change in circumstances, and at times it is almost like he (or the author) has forgotten he is French completely! And also the attitude and conclusions of what was supposed to be a very experienced psychological profiler just didn't feel plausible. And finally, as so often happens with "detective x crime series" books - if the main character didn't see it, it didn't happen. This means that Callanach has to abandon his massive case and oddly decide to go off with another detective in order to discuss something, purely as a plot device - i.e. he has to be involved in it for it to be an important part of the story. In places this worked, and got to the point, but at other times his actions just seemed so unusual as to be ludicrous, just to meet a plot point. Why the lesser characters can't have a PoV chapter is beyond me. It works perfectly well in fantasy fiction, why not in crime?!
However these were minor quibbles, an otherwise great book.
Prayer for the Dead
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Sunday Times bestseller Prayer for the Dead is the fifth novel in the bestselling Inspector McLean...