The search for the perfect tandem in the criminal genre is a recurring aspect in the most current crime novels. It will be a matter of trying to reconcile the most classic aspects of deduction and intuition of the investigator on duty with a darker, almost esoteric part that brings this type of plot closer to the tension of fear of the unknown.
The issue is knowing how to calibrate, balance the plot so that nothing squeaks in the combination.
MW Craven achieves this through characters that overshadow any possible imperfections. Because Washington Poe and Tily Bradshaw they are those opposite poles in everything, in personality, in appearance, in behavior ... The paradigm of beauty and the beast transferred to far away settings.
Between the untimely and determined of Poe and the withdrawn but tremendously audacious in his own Bradshaw, you get that complementary effect that you always like in these types of stories.
Like but you have to start the matter. Perhaps the author has entertained too much in the preliminaries, leaving the reader in a constant point of excitement that at times fades and must be taken up again. (Almost better that the intro had been sliding in brush strokes in the development).
But once in flour, history bites like a bad bug. And until you get to the end, you can't stop reading, with a final dissertation that leaves you delighted to have read it.
A serial killer is burning his victims alive. There are no clues at the crime scenes and the police have given up all hope.
When his name is found on the charred remains of the third victim, Washington Poe, a suspended and disgraced detective is called in to take over the investigation, a case he does not want to be part of.
He reluctantly accepts as his new partner Tily Bradshaw, a brilliant but uncivil social analyst. Soon, the pair discover a clue that only he could see. The dangerous killer has a plan, and for some reason, Poe is part of that plan.
As the number of victims continues to rise, Poe discovers that he knows much more about the case than he ever imagined. And in a terrifying ending that will shatter everything he believed about himself, Poe will understand that there are far worse things than being burned alive.
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