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Bezig met laden... Absolution (2007)door Caro Ramsay
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. PC Alan McAlpine returns to work after a family tragedy and is rostered to hospital duty to wait for the awakening of a young woman who lies near death after being the victim of a horrific acid attack. McAlpine is soon obsessed by the woman and even after discovering what led to her predicament he continues to fantasize about her. Fast Forward 20 years and McAlpine is a Detective Inspector who investigating a series of brutal killings The opening passages of this book are some of the most moving I have read, in any kind of genre, and perfectly sparked my interest in both the story to come and getting to know McAlpine. Ramsay’s writing is wonderfully descriptive and evocative of the time and place. She builds the suspense well and the ending fits logically with the events that went before it which is not always the case with crime fiction these days. There is one thread that I found awkward and unnecessary from a plot development point of view (the car crash) but I can easily forgive this in a book with so much else to recommend it. The book has a swag of well-developed and interesting characters which is just as well because I grew to despise Alan McAlpine. I suspect readers are supposed to feel sympathetic towards him but I just found him totally self-absorbed and hated the way he treats his wife and friends with utter contempt much of the time. Which presented me with my only real gripe about this book because I could just about swallow that either his wife or one of his colleagues would be blind to McAlpine’s faults but found it too much of a stretch to accept that they would universally put up with his poor treatment of them, cover for his drunken mistakes and generally ignore the fact he’s a selfish ingrate. Happily for him (and the good citizens of Glasgow) the dogged and devoted Colin Anderson and smart, courageous Winifred Costello are available fo the actual police work. Likeable or not though, all the characters are well constructed and nicely multi-dimensional. I’ll definitely keep my eyes out for any new books by this author. I read this last before the third and second in the series, which was unfortunate. In this story the characters haven’t fully developed in the way they have in books 2 and 3 and I found the character of DCI Alan McAlpine a little unlikely to generate the loyalty often referred to in books 2 and 3. That aside it is still a cracking read and worth it for the back story to the even better books 2 and 3. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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1984: It looked like a simple job. Guarding a woman - nameless and almost faceless after a savage acid attack - at a Glasgow hospital. PC Alan McAlpine has no idea that this simple job will haunt his career and change his life forever. 2006: Two decades later, Alan steps into Partickhill police station and back in time. Now a celebrated Detective Chief Inspector, McAlpine has been drafted in to lead the hunt for a man the press are calling 'the Crucifixion Killer'. With his distinguished reputation, McAlpine's team are confident their new DCI will lead them to the killer. But the obsession that was born in a hospital room twenty-two years earlier has never quite left Alan. And now, it seems, it's come back for a reason... Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden.
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A serial killer is acting as a vigilante, targetting women who have betrayed others. So far three have been brutally killed, and there is no sign that "he" is stopping.
It is a complex plot, with clues that seem to lead nowhere. In many ways this is a very solid police procedural. The ending will leave you wondering where the series is heading. ( )