AUTHOR: Mark Billingham
ISBN: 978-84-9877-525-9
PAG: 496
PRICE: 17.50 €
PAG: 496
PRICE: 17.50 €
BACK:
Inspector Tom Thorne has seen many bodies in his life. But when you start receiving in the mobile phone the macabre photos of a number of people killed, not long to realize that perhaps the next body to be hers. Even after locating the man who is sending the photos, the threat disappears. For some the case is almost closed, but Thorne's nightmare has only just begun.
Today I return with the latest crime novel I've read and now I will make a stop in the genre. I do not know if they already had many of the same style novels followed, but acknowledge that I have been stuck a bit and not just because it's a bad story, actually the plot is very good and nothing is left undone, but I think has been the way it is written. Maybe I'm getting used to the rhythm of Nordic crime fiction in general is much more agile and that cost me more to read this story, however has not really helped to know which is the seventh in a series, something I know.
While reading it made reference to previous cases and gave me the feeling that I was missing something, so I looked for information and effectively! Nothing more, nothing less than the seventh book in the Inspector Tom Thorne series of nine books is already written, but more interesting is that only find the first English translation (deep sleep) , the sixth (Underground) , which certainly has crime, I have at home and had no idea that was before this. I had bought at a flea market at 5 € and the seventh (Message of death).
1 º Sleepyhead (deep sleep)
2 º Scaredy Cat
3 º Lazybones
4 º The Burning Girl
5 º Lifeless
6 º Buried (Underground)
7 th Death Message (Message of death)
8 º Bloodline
9 º From the Dead
The book begins with a prologue which tells the abuse of a woman and her child. It seems that has nothing to do with the rest of the story, but of course it will not. After this prologue we are with Sergeant Tom Thorpe they start getting on your mobile phone pictures of corpses. He has no idea who they are, who sends them and why. When it gets to relate the first two bodies (both belonging to the gang of bikers Black Dogs) research led him to another death caused years earlier. The assassination of the founder of the Black Dogs, whose murderer was imprisoned, despite pleading not guilty and had family relationship with the victims of abuse. Tom Thorne
will tying ropes and before you know it, on page 129 we know the identity of the murderer and his motives. Clear at this point think "What now will fill the rest of the book to its 494 leaves?" Well, because obviously if you do know who the murderer is unable catch and meanwhile the number of victims continues to grow.
The character that I liked about this story is precisely the murderer, because he is a man who has nothing to lose, just decided what to do and why, and the reader is able to understand, not justify, but to understand their motives. It is almost the character of more data we have, what makes it interesting. It delves deeper into what he feels through letters that you write and never reach their destination, where he speaks of the mind that is living and sometimes the memories that remain. However
Thorne's character, but above all those around me seemed rather sad and flat, although I am convinced that the lack of information about them. For example we talk about the death of the father of Thorne, which I understand will have occurred in an earlier novel, the relationship with Louise Porter kidnapping unit with whom, I suppose, should also work on another novel before. ;
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Clearly did not know the author (despite having one of his books on my shelves heh, heh!) and the truth is that not only has written nine books so far this series, but also has also worked as TV writer and actor and even as a stand-up comedian.
Under the pseudonym Will Peterson has practiced thriller for young adults in the series of Triskellion
short, the story seemed to me good, has managed to continue interests despite knowing who was the murderer and everything is perfectly well explained, but the rate in history for me has been slower than you would want in a novel like this, I still think it is a story that would please the reader fond of detective novels who, by putting a example, the novels of Camilla style Läckberg it deems inadequate. Anyway great help to read the above, at least the first. I like to start the series in order. The first introductory book is usually where they usually do a more in-depth characters that will appear later in other books that comprise the series.
(Novel courtesy of Algaida)
Photographs used: - the book: http://crucedecables.blogspot.com/2011/02/mensaje-de-muerte-mark-billingham.html
- author: http://www.revistadeletras.net/empieza-a-leer-en-la-oscuridad-de-mark-billingham/