Talking to the Dead: A chilling British detective crime thriller
Autor Harry Binghamen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 mar 2013
Tensiune pură. O atmosferă apăsătoare care se instalează încă de la primele pagini. În Talking to the Dead, simțim imediat că nu avem de-a face cu un roman polițist convențional. Suntem aruncați în inima unității de elită din South Wales, unde DC Fiona Griffiths investighează o scenă a crimei de o brutalitate îngrozitoare: o mamă și fiica ei au fost ucise într-un apartament sordid. Singura piesă de puzzle care nu se potrivește este un card bancar de platină aparținând unui magnat decedat de mult. Putem afirma că forța acestui debut constă în vocea magnetică a Fionei. Ea poartă povara unui trecut fragmentat, o absență de doi ani din viața publică și o incapacitate tulburătoare de a plânge, trăsături care o transformă dintr-un simplu investigator într-un personaj de o profunzime psihologică rară. Stilul are ceva din proza lui Harry Bingham din volumele ulterioare ale seriei, precum The Dead House, fără să fie o imitație — aici, autorul pune bazele unei vulnerabilități care devine, paradoxal, cea mai mare armă a protagonistei. Merită menționat că ritmul este sacadat, aproape febril, pe măsură ce Fiona coboară în propriile „zone întunecate” pentru a rezolva misterul. Dacă în alte lucrări precum Dead Simple accentul cade pe consecințele neașteptate ale raportării unei crime, aici Harry Bingham explorează obsesia și identificarea cu victima. Credem că cititorul va fi captivat de acest amestec de procedură polițistă riguroasă și explorare mentală viscerală, într-un decor galez unde ploaia pare să spele totul, mai puțin păcatele trecutului.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1409137228
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția Orion
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm Talking to the Dead oricărui pasionat de beletristică polițistă care caută o protagonistă ieșită din tipare. Dacă v-au plăcut personajele complexe și solitare precum Lisbeth Salander, veți descoperi în Fiona Griffiths o figură la fel de fascinantă. Câștigați nu doar o intrigă bine construită, ci și o călătorie psihologică intensă într-o minte care înțelege moartea mai bine decât viața.
Descriere
A young girl is found dead. A prostitute is murdered. And the strangest, youngest detective in the South Wales Major Crimes Unit is about to face the fiercest test of her short career.
A woman and her six-year-old daughter are killed with chilling brutality in a dingy flat. The only clue: the platinum bank card of a long-dead tycoon, found amidst the squalor.
DC Griffiths has already proved herself dedicated to the job, but there's another side to her she is less keen to reveal. Something to do with a mysterious two-year gap in her CV, her strange inability to cry - and a disconcerting familiarity with corpses.
Fiona is desperate to put the past behind her but as more gruesome killings follow, the case leads her back into those dark places in her own mind where another dead girl is waiting to be found...
Praise for the Fiona Griffiths mystery series:
'I have to say that in a lifetime of reading crime fiction I have never come across anyone quite like Fiona Griffiths . . . Read this book. Enjoy every syllable. Hold your breath, and tick off the weeks until the next one' Crime Fiction Lover
'Compelling...a new crime talent to treasure' Daily Mail
'Gritty, compelling...a procedural unlike any other you are likely to read this year' USA Today
'With Detective Constable Fiona 'Fi' Griffiths, Harry Bingham...finds a sweet spot in crime fiction...think Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander...[or] Lee Child's Jack Reacher... The writing is terrific' The Boston Globe
'This cleverly plotted police procedural introduces a likeable, maverick detective destined for a bestseller following' Choice
Fans of Angela Marsons, Peter James and Ann Cleeves will be gripped by the other titles in the Fiona Griffiths mystery series:
1. Talking to the Dead
2. Love Story, With Murders
3. The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths
4. This Thing of Darkness
5. The Dead House
6. The Deepest Grave (coming soon!)
If you're looking for a crime thriller series to keep you hooked, then go no further: you've just found it.
** Each Fiona Griffiths thriller can be read as a standalone or in series order **
Recenzii
Chilling, atmospheric and so gripping it hurts. You won't read a better crime novel this year
Intriguing and compelling - I love Fiona Griffiths
In a word - brilliant. One of the most enjoyable crime novels I've read in a while
Compelling and claustrophic, Without a doubt, Fiona Griffiths is one of crime's most memorable heroines
One of the most interesting and complicated protagonists in current UK crime fiction. Truly unforgettable
Fiona Griffiths is one of the most unusual and engaging characters in British crime fiction. Those who haven't yet encountered Fiona will be drawn into a beautifully crafted world
Gripping...Fiona Griffiths kept me hooked to the last page and left me hungry for more
This is on one level an orthodox, if expertly written, police procedural. But the character of Fiona lifts it to an altogether different, extraordinary level. She is childlike, brilliant, courageous and utterly loopy all at the same time - as well as devastatingly real and human and alone...She'll haunt you long after you finish this book, and send you scurrying to find what else Bingham has written.
Fresh and compelling. The best thing coming out of this gem of a crime story is the promise of another
Compelling...a new crime talent to treasure
Bingham has gotten inside the mind of his clever, neurotic heroine so well as to make her seem entirely credible... An interesting, unusual and in some ways even moving crime novel.
The mystery-thriller genre is already so staffed with masterminds that it's hard to make room for yet another. But along comes a book like TALKING TO THE DEAD, by Harry Bingham, and suddenly an unadvertised opening is filled...has the feel of something fresh and compelling. The best thing coming out of this gem of a crime story is the promise of another.
With Detective Constable Fiona "Fi" Grffiths, Harry Bingham finds a sweet spot in crime fiction - a female protagonist with stunted emotions, a passion for protecting women (think Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander), outsider status (think Denise Mina's "Paddy" Meehan), sheer guts, and an unstoppable drive to follow her own instincts even when it means breaking every rule in the book (think Lee Childs's Jack Reacher) [...] The writing is terrific, just literary enough to make you catch your breath but not so eye-catching that it detracts from the storytelling
This is realism and social commentary immersed in a procedural unlike any other you are likely to read this year
The detective with a troubled past is a massively over-familiar motif in crime fiction, but it's to Harry Bingham's credit that he is able to re-energise the scenario here so that it seems as fresh as paint. The book has already gleaned a slew of admirers, no doubt because of the writing that lifts Talking to the Dead effortlessly out of the police procedural realms
This cleverly plotted police procedural introduces a likeable, maverick detective destined for a bestseller following.