Back in 2005, Detective Bobby Dodge came into our lives. And this time Lisa gardner He returns to him so that he can pass the witness to the also detective Warren. The brushstrokes that link this new novel with Bobby's origins in the previous novel "Sola" are duly developed with that mastery of who knows when to introduce them without having to drop a soporific introduction and without the present narrative losing an iota of interest in any moment.
It does not matter that we do not know the Bobby Dodge faced with the most disturbing scenarios of previous adventures. Everything is part of that slab that any black series researcher carries on his shoulders. What is relevant is that that shadow of his past now slides like a bad omen, like a series of sinister confluences that point him with hatred and animosity for his exemplary performance against the hells that inhabit the most wicked minds.
The scene of the old psychiatric hospital in which several murdered women appear in a gothic recreation of death is quickly translated, in Bobby's imagination, into a modus operandi already known to him. And that's where Detective Warren comes in, whose rising prominence portends even a grim premonition about Bobby's fate.
But beyond the investigations into the case, the narrative addresses the most sinister and disturbing from the role of Annabelle Granger, who is unexpectedly directed by the first indications and who must move between her deepest fears of a life turned into flight from the shadows .
Annabelle then discovers that after so many years there is no point trying to find a new outlet. Annabelle and that magical moment in which the character assumes that he must face what is to come, in turn facing the reader to fear in essence, to phobia, to what we have always distanced ourselves from, until we understand that we are not you can live free with that fear ...
Bobby and Warren's investigation proceeds under seizing tension. Because Annabelle faces her most momentous cause in life knowing at least what to hold on to. The problem is that Bobby can't even imagine the wicked plan that tries to tie it all together.
And then it will be Warren who must take advantage of his outside perspective on the matter to prevent catastrophes from happening.
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