That the crime novels very black of MW Craven They are being published in parallel in many other countries in addition to his native England makes clear the general confidence in the strength of his plots.
As on so many other occasions, nothing better than powerful protagonists like his Washington Poe with his ineffable Tilly Bradshaw so that the gravitational system of the plot part focuses us as readers towards those luminous stereotypes, with an inalienable centripetal force.
For this the protas must have their virtues and defects, their hells and their hard ways towards reconciliation with a world that has almost always hurt them (nothing better than guilt and remorse to atone for our own sins on that other being on the other side, between paper and imagination).
Beyond a meticulous, very human characterization of this new Poe in tandem with Tilly, the author also knows how to give one of lime and another of sand in the already noble art of narrative balance. In every current crime novel, the merely criminal and the suggestively deductive have to magnetize us so that each chapter is morbidly inalienable to read. And yes, Craven does it by topping it off with Joel Dicker laughs you laugh at times.
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The puppet show
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 Between the untimely and determined of Poe and the withdrawn but tremendously audacious in his own Bradshaw, you get that complementary effect that you always like in these types of stories.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.
Black summer
The smile of the friendly neighbor who gives way to you in the elevator, the considerate treatment of the dentist who is about to put his hands in your mouth, the talk of the anesthesia about to lead you to the worlds of Morpheus ... So many things sometimes arouse doubts reasonable about the true nature of the person on duty ...
Jared is serving a life sentence for the brutal murder of his daughter Elizabeth. His body was never found and Keaton was convicted in large part on the testimony of Detective Washington Poe.
When a young woman shows up on the doorstep of a remote police station with irrefutable evidence that she is Elizabeth Keaton, Poe finds himself in the dilemma of an investigation that could well cost him far more than his own professional career.
With the help of the only person he trusts, the brilliant but socially complex Tilly Bradshaw, Poe is racing against the clock to answer the only question that matters: How can a person be alive and dead at the same time? And suddenly Elizabeth disappears again, and all leads from the investigation point back to Poe.
Abandonment
We can also enjoy a Whasington Poe in a shorter version through this volume. And so we understand the connection of the character of Poe with his remote relative. It is none other than the great author of the black genre Edgar Allan Poe. Because there is a certain sinister aroma of the Gothic in everything that happens in these stories as taken from the darkest of the soul.
En"Death camp", Poe and Tilly are having breakfast, wondering how they will spend the rest of their vacation, when their presence is requested at an airfield in Cumbria. An airfield that during the 2001 foot-and-mouth disease crisis was known as the death camp. . .
En "Why don't the sheep shrink?" A global pandemic forces Poe and Tilly to isolate themselves together. Things don't go well. They argue and are about to fight when Poe finds an old file - a mystery he's been pondering for years.
En "Dead man's fingers", Poe, Tilly and Edgar, Poe's dog, enjoy a day of rest in a nature reserve. Suddenly they run into a mystery from twenty years ago, a mystery that has not been solved until now.
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Dead zone
The fourth installment of Whashington Poe evokes one of the best novels, for me, of Stephen King. So at first it sounds like desecration to me. But giving Poe and his extravagances a chance in favor of each of his plots, we discover a very juicy novel.
Sergeant Washington Poe is in court, fighting eviction from his beloved and isolated farm, when he is summoned to a street brothel in Carlisle, where a man has been beaten to death with a baseball bat. Everything indicates that it is a simple murder by a pimp, but his assistance was requested personally, by the type of people who prefer to remain in the shadows.
As Poe and his inseparable partner Tilly Bradshaw dig deeper into the case, they are faced with seemingly unanswered questions: Despite being thoroughly vetted for a high-profile job, why isn't anything in the victim's background checked? ? Why was a small ornament left at the crime scene and why did someone on the investigation team steal it? And what's the connection to a perfectly executed bank robbery three years earlier, a robbery in which absolutely nothing was taken?
