The Whisperer
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4,4 • 11 valutazioni
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Descrizione dell’editore
Six severed arms are discovered buried in a forest clearing. They are arranged in a mysterious circle, and appear to belong to missing girls between the ages of eight and thirteen. But the rest of the bodies are nowhere to be found.
Criminologist Goran Gavila is given the case. A dishevelled, instinctively rebellious man, he is forced to work with young female police officer Mila Vasquez. Lithe, boyish, answering to no one, Mila has a reputation as a specialist in missing children. She also has a tragic history of her own that has left her damaged, unable to feel or to relate to others.
Theirs is a fiery but strangely affecting working relationship - and as they uncover more secrets about the dark secrets in the forest, their lives are increasingly in each other's hands...
A gripping literary thriller that has taken Italy by storm, The Whisperer has been as sensational a bestseller in Europe as the Stieg Larsson novels. It is that rare creation: a thought-provoking, intelligent literary novel that is also utterly unputdownable.
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An unorthodox cop joins forces with an elite investigative team led by a brilliant profiler in Carrisi's intriguing if overly plotted debut. "Somewhere near W.," in "an absurd woodland cemetery," Italian police officers, including Mila Vasquez, who excels at finding missing children, examine a makeshift grave. Five missing girls, ages seven to 13, appear to have been murdered, though the six severed left arms in the grave leave one missing child unaccounted for. The close-knit team, headed by criminologist Dr. Goran Gavila, home in on a suspect, but it all seems too easy. While the man is clearly guilty of a crime, he may not be the serial killer they've christened "Albert," thus setting off an elaborate cat-and-mouse game between the real killer and his pursuers. Familiar crime thriller tropes include the damaged cop and the haunted profiler, but Carrisi spins an engagingly gruesome tale.
Recensioni dei clienti
GREAT
I've red this book this summer...and even if i didn't buy it on the ibooks store i want to give to the author (Donato Carrisi) five stars! What a great story...i could not stop reading.now i'm reading his second book...it looks great to!!!great job donato keep on writing and i will keep on reading you.hope that the second book too ("il tribunale delle anime" is the italian title) will be soon available on the ibook store. Try this book,trust me!