The book: Bompiani Editore
Year 2009 427 pages - Paperback
Translation Silvestri A.
The plot: David Hunter
arrives in the tiny island of Runa to assess whether the remains of a burned corpse arising a random fire, a paranormal phenomenon of spontaneous combustion - such as the small community already started rumor - or the result of a horrendous crime. Hunter, thanks to the scientific expertise at its disposal, has no doubts: it is a murder and fire if they just wanted to hide the traces. The case is thus officially retired inspector entrusted Brody, who found the body, but police investigations do not solve anything and are more cumbersome than expected: a series of seemingly random incidents slows down the research and, gradually, the number of potential witnesses is eliminated with a brutality and macabre taste for violence and shiny. Hunter, examining the remains of the first victim, he discovers that belong a prostitute, Janice Donaldson, who had a relationship with the daughter of a billionaire who controls the island. Between traffic, dirty sex, drugs, forensic science, curiosity will drive Hunter in the heart of the mystery. At the risk of life.
I appreciate this writer with "The Chemistry of Death", who had been able to draw me right away. This is completely different.
Writing, in my opinion, it's a bit 'hard to take off. Investigations seems not result in anything, the texture is enriched with details that do not convince me.
Then, at some point near the end of the book, it recovers all the lost time and the actions one after the other, with constant surprises and suspense that bodes well.
Unfortunately, the comparison with the other book is spontaneous and, while appreciating the style of Beckett, "Written in Bone" I was not excited.
Writer: Simon Beckett
after the drummer in rock band, attended a Masters in English Literature and teaches in Spain. Back home, since 1992, writes as a columnist and freelance journalist for The Times, The Independent on Sunday Review, "The Daily Telegraph, The Observer and other major British newspapers and magazines. Memorable its investigations in the front line of police drug raids in the sordid world brothel or the secrets of the Research Centre of Forensic Anthropology in Tennessee. As a published novelist Fine Lines (1994), Animals (1995, winner of the Chandler's Marlowe Society as Best International Crime Novel), Where There's Smoke (1997), and Owning Jacob (1998). Simon Beckett is now married and lives in Sheffield.
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