The English writer Anne perry It has been displaying, for decades, an inexhaustible narrative capacity that allows it to unfold into large series that advance in parallel. Series among which it is possible to truffle independent stories that are equally interesting and with the same mastery in that genre of police mystery made his own as a worthy heir to Conan Doyle.
Thus, the arrival of this new installment that began in 1990 (and that adds 23 installments with this one) develops with that magnetism for the reader accustomed to its regular doses of black ink, one of the pens that best maintains the purest policeman.
This time Anne perry It starts with a scene of unmitigated criminal literature. The blood splatters us with the unusual violence of a murderer who takes out a businessman with whom he could maintain some kind of debt.
Today you can send the collector of the tailcoat, in the past you could pierce the defaulter in question with a bayonet as if it were a battlefield from the Crimean War.
But of course, the Hungarian origins of the victim also raise doubts about some kind of recalcitrant xenophobia. And Monk is compelled to search for clues among the victim's surroundings. In principle he only finds silence and reluctance among the Hungarian inhabitants of London.
The problem is that the criminal's thirst for blood does not seem to have been quenched and new targets are falling. From the outset, faced with the withdrawal and closure of possible victims with that common trait of their foreign origin, Monk will focus his efforts on spaces where racial or religious hatred could lead to such atrocity.
In parallel, masterfully complementing the main thread of the crime, we discover how Hester and Scuff, Monk's wife, and her foster son several deliveries ago, face the case of another victim collaterally linked to the main case. A war veteran who also harbors his dark side and his secrets to reveal when everything ends up in the hands of justice ...
Although it is soon possible to guess, through a kind of omniscient narrator, the criminal or at least his closest environment, the tension is maintained by means of the two intertwined plots.
An independent reading novel about the rest of the series but that is much more appreciated having clear previous references.
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