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Indlæser... The Restless Dead: (David Hunter 5) (original 2017; udgave 2018)af Simon Beckett (Forfatter)
Work InformationThe Restless Dead af Simon Beckett (2017)
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 MaraBlaise | Jul 23, 2022 |    ) Obi2015 | Jul 19, 2020 | Wieder einmal ein richtig gutes Buch von Simon Beckett. Nur zu empfhelen ( ) Patschi93 | Aug 2, 2019 |  ) Carol420 | Jan 30, 2019 | Dies ist der fünfte Fall für David Hunter. Das Buch lässt sich problemlos lesen, auch wenn man die Vorgängerbände nicht kennt. Der Schreibstil lässt sich gut lesen. Die Gegend der Backwaters ist unwirtlich und auch die Bewohner sind ziemlich unnahbar. Die Beschreibung dieser Gegend ist sehr gut gelungen und schafft eine besondere, düstere Atmosphäre. Dagegen sind die ausführlichen Beschreibungen der einzelnen Verwesungszustände nicht jedermanns Sache. Hunter spürt, dass er als forensischer Anthropologe für den Fall nicht unbedingt gebraucht wird. Aber die Sache interessiert ihn und so bleibt er, obwohl er spürt, dass man ihn nicht wirklich dort haben will. Aber es liegt in seiner Natur, den Sachen auf den Grund zu gehen und diese Geschichte lässt ihn nicht los. Besonders gefallen hat mir aber DI Lundy, ein Vollblut-Polizist, der auch dem ersten Anschein misstraut und der sich immer wieder mit Hunter berät. Rachel, die Hunter das Bootshaus vermietet, kommt ihm näher, als es bei dem Fall ratsam ist, denn im Grunde sind alle verdächtig. Es geht recht behäbig zu in dieser Geschichte, der aber sehr gut und schlüssig konstruiert ist, so dass es trotzdem spannend ist. Bis zum Schluss ist es mir nicht gelungen, die Hintergründe und Motive zu erkennen. Der Fall ist komplex und die Verstrickungen reichen weit in die Vergangenheit. Ich kann das Buch nur empfehlen. ( ) buecherwurm1310 | Aug 19, 2018 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Belongs to SeriesDavid Hunter (5) Distinctions
'Composed of over sixty per cent water itself, a human body isn't naturally buoyant. It will float only for as long as there is air in its lungs, before gradually sinking to the bottom as the air seeps out. If the water is very cold or deep, it will remain there, undergoing a slow, dark dissolution that can take years. But if the water is warm enough for bacteria to feed and multiply, then it will continue to decompose. Gases will build up in the intestines, increasing the body's buoyancy until it floats again. And the dead will literally rise . . . ' It was on a Friday evening that forensics consultant Dr David Hunter took the call: a Detective Inspector Lundy from the Essex force. Just up the coast from Mersea Island, near a place called Backwaters, a badly decomposed body has been found and the local police would welcome Hunter's help with the recovery and identification . . . Because they would like it to be that of Leo Villiers, the 31 year-old son of a prominent local family who went missing weeks ago, and they are under pressure to close the case. Villiers was supposed to have been having an affair with a married woman, Emma Derby. She too is missing, and the belief is that the young man disposed of his lover, and then killed himself. If only it was so straightforward. But Hunter has his doubts about the identity of the remains. The hands and feet are missing, the face no longer recognisable. Then further remains are found - and suddenly these remote wetlands are giving up yet more grisly secrets. As Hunter is slowly but surely drawn into a toxic mire of family secrets and resentments, local lies and deception, he finds himself unable, or perhaps unwilling, to escape even though he knows that the real threat comes from the living, not the dead. With its eerie and claustrophobic sense of place, explosive heart-in-mouth moments, and viscerally authentic forensics and police procedural detail, coupled with David Hunter's own uncanny ability to understand the living as much as the dead, The Restless Dead stands as a masterclass in crime fiction and marks the stunning return of one of the genre's best. No library descriptions found. |
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David Hunter is blacklisted after events in the previous book so when he gets a call for help to identifying a body doesn't he hesitate to go. This seems to be an open and shut case, they have a missing man and now they have found a body, but Hunter feels that something is wrong, despite the missing man's father confirmation that the dead man is wearing his son's clothes. And on his way to the mortuary for the autopsy does he take the wrong turn and suddenly he runs into problems with a flooded road and car that ends up stuck in the water and ends up taking refuge at a family that not only is acting hostile to him, but they also seem to have some secrets....
With this action, just getting stuck and having to accept help from strangers is Hunter suddenly drawn into a web of secrets. There is something odd going on, people are harbinger secrets and when the young daughter in the family that Hunter is staying with goes missing will the case suddenly take a different direction.
The Restless Dead never made me feel lost, despite not having read the previous four books. Instead, was I fascinated by Hunter and his tragic past with the death of his family and other events that have hit him hard (like a knife attack). The story in this book is intriguing and poor Hunter just doesn't seem to be able to do anything without stumbling over a dead body or being in the middle of things that go out of hand. I was engrossed with the story and I loved that it was hard to see how it all would end. Then, we have the interesting ending of the book when everything has been resolved, wow what a perfect and frustrating cliffhanger!
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