One of the resources par excellence in the crime novel is the anticipation of the murder.
The murderer is anxious to complete his great work but, somehow, he needs to warn someone about what is going to happen.
I don't know what the psychiatrists will have to say about this. If really the serial killer can be believed an artist, so dependent on admirers who are after his macabre representations ...
This novel The executor takes up once again this hackneyed concept of the murderer as someone who needs to warn of his messianic work that reflects the power over life and death.
For the rest, the novel abounds in typical characters such as journalists who are compelled to investigate, policemen who are personally involved in the story, tortured and devious personalities and personalities wrapped in dark doubts.
But in the end all that tendency to the cliché of the genre is understood as necessary. It is the murderer who tries to mimic what happens in well-known crime novels with the reality of the plot. And then you discover how much new this novel brings.
A starred journalist in his profession, a researcher with a peculiar personality dedicated to the cause, a perfect setting in deep Norway that contributes so much to the current black genre.
A police plot that, highlighting the most typical resources, ends up being discovered super-novel in scenarios that, delusional of us readers, we thought we knew.
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