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Before the Poison: a totally gripping crime fiction novel from the master of the police procedural

Autor Peter Robinson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 feb 2012

Proza lui Peter Robinson în Before the Poison lovește cu precizia unui compozitor care știe că liniștea dintre note contează cel mai mult. Stilul este tăios. Atmosfera, densă. Chris Lowndes revine din strălucirea Hollywood-ului în izolarea din Yorkshire, căutând liniște după moartea soției. Găsește, în schimb, Kilnsgate House. O casă cu memorie. O casă unde, în urmă cu jumătate de secol, un doctor a murit otrăvit, iar soția sa a plătit cu viața. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Robinson construiește această obsesie: Lowndes nu doar cercetează un dosar prăfuit, ci retrăiește tragedia prin jurnalul victimei. Tensiunea crește insidios. Secretele trecutului refuză să rămână îngropate, iar prezentul devine periculos de fragil. Pe același raft cu Shadows Before de Dorothy Bowers, cartea se distinge prin perspectiva unică a unui protagonist artist care „aude” ecourile crimei prin zidurile conacului. Deși autorul este celebru pentru proceduralele riguroase din seria DCI Banks, precum Not Dark Yet sau Standing in the Shadows, aici abandonăm secția de poliție pentru o incursiune psihologică profundă. Considerăm că forța acestui roman stă în refuzul de a oferi soluții simple. Este o explorare a vinovăției și a modului în care timpul distorsionează adevărul. Robinson demonstrează că nu ai nevoie de o insignă pentru a deconecta straturile unei minciuni vechi de decenii, ci doar de o curiozitate care trece pragul spre obsesie.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781444704853
ISBN-10: 1444704850
Pagini: 448
Ilustrații: none
Dimensiuni: 142 x 200 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Colecția Hodder Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorii care caută un mister atmosferic ce îmbină eleganța epocii de aur cu realismul psihologic modern. Veți câștiga o experiență de lectură intensă, unde muzica filmului se întâlnește cu umbrele trecutului. Este recomandarea ideală dacă v-a plăcut Love and Other Poisons de Lesley McDowell și doriți o poveste despre justiție întârziată și secrete de familie bine păstrate.


Despre autor

Peter Robinson este un maestru recunoscut al genului polițist, celebru la nivel mondial pentru seria de succes care îl are ca protagonist pe inspectorul Alan Banks. Cu numeroase titluri ajunse pe primele locuri în listele de bestseller Sunday Times și New York Times, Robinson și-a consolidat reputația prin realismul procedurilor polițienești și profunzimea caracterizării personajelor sale. În Before the Poison, autorul demonstrează o versatilitate remarcabilă, îndepărtându-se de structura clasică de investigație contemporană pentru a explora suspansul psihologic și ecourile istorice ale crimelor din trecut.


Descriere

The Number One bestseller and winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Besy Novel

After years of Hollywood success composer Chris Lowndes wanted only one thing: to take his beloved wife home to the Yorkshire Dales.

But Laura is gone, and Chris is on his own.

He welcomes the isolation of Kilnsgate House, and the beauty of the dale. And it doesn't surprise him that a man died there, sixty years ago.

That his wife was convicted of murder.

That something is pulling him deeper and deeper into the story of Grace Elizabeth Fox, who was hanged by the neck until she was dead . . .

Recenzii

If Robinson is to turn out one-off novels as assured as this perhaps we wouldn't mind too much if Alan Banks was to retire and take up beekeeping in Sussex.
With this stand-alone novel, Mr. Robinson - best-known for his award-winning Inspector Banks mystery series - has fashioned a gripping tale that brings to mind not only old-time Hollywood but also British "golden age" storytelling in the Agatha Christie and Daphne du Maurier tradition
With adept professionalism, Robinson brings to the reader a story that is tantalisingly unravelled like a poisoned present . . . a haunting, moving tale that will get you thinking days after the last word has been read
A gripping tale of guilt and self-sacrifice, it will haunt you to the final page - and beyond
Most admirers of Robinson will find themselves utterly involved in this haunting, textured mystery . . . If Robinson is to turn out one-off novels as assured as this perhaps we wouldn't mind too much if Alan Banks was to retire and take up beekeeping in Sussex
Robinson outdoes Daphne du Maurier in creating the proper atmosphere for the imaginative fancies of a grief-stricken man
'Together with a stunning landscape, vibrant characters and an evocative story, Robinson has created a highly intelligent and well-crafted standalone novel . . . Gripping stuff and highly recommended.'
'Peter Robinson has for too long, and unfairly, been in the shadow of Ian Rankin; perhaps PIECE OF MY HEART, the latest in the Chief Inspector Banks series, will give him the status he deserves, near, perhaps even at the top of, the British crime writers' league'
'Brilliant! . . . Gut-wrenching plotting, alongside heart-wrenching portraits of the characters who populate his world, not to mention the top-notch police procedure.'

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Quietly reeling from the death of his beloved wife, Chris Lowndes decides to return to the Yorkshire Dales after twenty-five successful years spent in Hollywood composing film scores. He purchases Kilnsgate House, a charming old mansion deep in the country, but something about the place disturbs him. His unease intensifies when he learns Kilnsgate was once the scene of a sensational murder. More than fifty years earlier, prominent doctor Ernest Arthur Fox was poisoned there, allegedly by his beautiful and much younger wife, Grace, who was subsequently tried, condemned, and hanged for the crime.
His curiosity piqued, Chris decides to investigate, and the more he discovers, the more convinced he becomes of Grace’s innocence. Despite warnings to leave it
be, his quest for the truth is soon leading him through dark shadows of the past . . .
and into a strange web of secrets that lie perilously close to the present.
A complex, multilayered thriller, Before the Poison is one of Peter Robinson’s most brilliant novelsand one readers won’t soon forget.

Notă biografică

One of the world's most popular and acclaimed writers, Peter Robinson is the best-selling, award-winning author of the DCI Banks series; he has also written two short-story collections and three stand-alone novels, which combined have sold more than ten million copies around the world. Among his many honors and prizes are the Edgar Award, the CWA (UK) Dagger in the Library Award, and the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Martin Beck Award.