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Surtout, ne pas savoir (2012)

par Stuart MacBride

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The gritty new standalone crime novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Shatter the Bones and Dark Blood Detective Constable Ash Henderson has a dark secret! Five years ago his daughter, Rebecca, went missing on the eve of her thirteenth birthday. A year later the first card arrived: homemade, with a Polaroid picture stuck to the front--Rebecca, strapped to a chair, gagged and terrified. Every year another card: each one worse than the last. The tabloids call him The Birthday Boy. He's been snatching girls for twelve years, always in the run-up to their thirteenth birthday, sending the families his homemade cards showing their daughters being slowly tortured to death. But Ash hasn't told anyone about Rebecca's birthday cards--they all think she's just run away from home--because if anyone finds out, he'll be taken off the investigation. And he's sacrificed too much to give up before his daughter's killer gets what he deserves.… (plus d'informations)
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  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
Swedish review

Media kallar honom "Födelsedagsfiraren" för att han kidnappar flickor precis innan de ska fylla tretton år och sedan skickar han ett födelsdagskort till deras familjer som visar hur han långsamt torterar dem till döds. Varje år får de ett nytt kort. För fem år sedan försvann kriminalinspektör Ash Hendersons dotter Rebecca. Ett år senare får han ett kort på posten, men han hemlighåller detta för om det skulle komma fram skulle han inte få vara kvar på utredningen.

Att skriva en bok om barn som torteras ihjäl kan inte vara lätt och det är definitivt inte något som är lätt att läsa om. Men Stuart McBride har lyckats sätta samman en bok som inte blir för nattsvart och det tack vare den lysande karaktären Alice McDonald, en kriminalpsykolog med sina egna problem, tack vara henne så känns det inte som man vadar i elände och misär hela tiden medan man läser boken. Alice uppväger Ash Henderson mer självdestruktiva karaktär. Ash är skild med pengaskulder och han får i början av boken ett nytt kort på Rebecca och vetskapen av detta behåller han för sig själv. Polisen och hans ex-fru tror alla att Rebecca har rymt hemifrån. Men så hittar de en kropp och med det så har de äntligen konkreta bevis istället för bara bilder.

Detta är en bok som är väldigt svårt att sluta läsa, hela tiden ville jag läsa ett kapitel till för att få reda på vem som låg bakom kidnappningarna och boken är väldigt spännande och tacksam nog också rolig, utan Alice, vars olika fobier gör boken underhållande att läsa, skulle jag gå under i allt mörker. Jag till och med ringde till min mamma på kvällen för att läsa stycken ur boken för henne när Alice hade sagt eller gjort något kul.

Detta är en bok som är bra från början till slutet och jag ser fram emot att läsa bok 2 i serien.

Jag vill tacka HarperCollins Nordic för att ha försett mig med ett recensionsex för en ärlig recension.

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English review

Media calls him "The Birthday boy" because he kidnappers girls just before they turn thirteen and then he sends pictures of them home to their families showing how he slowly tortures them to death. Every year they get a new card. 5 years ago Detective Constable Ash Henderson's daughter Rebecca was kidnapped. One year later get a card, but he keeps that a secret for his colleagues and because if they would know would he not be able to stay on the investigation.

To write a book about children being tortured cannot be easy and it's definitely not something that is easy to read about. But, Stuart McBride has managed to put together a book that is not too dark thanks to the character Alice McDonald, a criminal psychologist with her own problems, and thanks to her it doesn't feel like you are drowning in misery while you are reading the book. Alice counterbalance Ash Henderson more destructive character. Ash is divorced with debts and he gets, in the beginning, a new picture of Rebecca and the knowledge about this, he keeps to himself. The cops and his ex-wife all thinks that Rebecca just ran away. But, then they find a body och with that they finally have solid evidence besides the pictures.

Birthday for the Dead was a book that was hard to put down. I couldn't stop reading because I really wanted to know who was behind the kidnappings and the book was really thrilling och thankfully also funny thanks to Alice, whose phobias made the books really entertaining to read. Without Alice, would the book have been way too dark to read. I even called my mum during the evening to read her sections from the book when Alice had said or done something funny.

I want to thank HarperCollins Nordic for providing me with a free copy for an honest review!

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  MaraBlaise | Jul 23, 2022 |
Phew , Ash Henderson makes Logan McRae look like a choir boy.

OK I probably shouldnt compare the 2 series but..

The first Ash Henderson novel has the compulsion, the twists and turns and quirky characters we have come to enjoy from the Logan McRae novels. Still showing the dirty side of the city, but now set in mythical Oldfield, Ash Henderson is bad, to my mind too bad. Committing one murder (under provocation) torturing a suspect or tw0, having his two daughters murdered, being forced to shoot himself in the foot, then finally chasing down the Birthday Boy on one foot. Is all a bit too unbelievable

His quirky sidekick Dr Fruitloop, is a great character, funny , strange , apparently slightly loopy, but a good foil to Ash, and possibly not as mad as we are led to believe. It would be great to see her in future books.

Rhona, Ash's colleague, who is prepared to aid Ash in delivering a beating, and circumventing the system, is another nicely sketched character who I can see developing nicely in the future.

Overall I liked the plot, the setting and many of characters, but the violence in the story was too unbelievable in a modern western society, and Ash's heroics just a bit too superhuman. But maybe Im just not in touch with the real world. ( )
  Harbon | May 20, 2022 |
You have to wonder about the author who can come up with a serial killer this sick. Oi. ( )
  allan.nail | Jul 11, 2021 |
4.5 stars!

Scottish Noir-it's a thing. I finished my first book in this genre and it will not be the last.

This is more of a psychological thriller than a horror novel, but that doesn't make this story any less horrific. MacBride's way of telling the story took a little getting used to-there are a lot of holes and questions on the reader's part. But I had faith in MacBride and just continued on and shortly, my patience was rewarded.

The author did not take any shortcuts, he built his characters from the ground up and totally fleshed them out. He was wise enough to insert some humor into this otherwise, dark, DARK, story. If he hadn't, this one might have been too dark-even for me. I thought he would cop out at the end, that perhaps he had painted himself into too tight of a corner, but he didn't. Here was a denouement that was brave and it DELIVERED.

How have I not heard of Stuart MacBride before? If it hadn't been for our great group, I wouldn't have. Thanks to Kate and thanks to Horror Readers. Once again, I'm on the trail of a new-to-me author and it's a great feeling!

Highly recommended to fans of noir and dark, dark fiction! ( )
  Charrlygirl | Mar 22, 2020 |
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The gritty new standalone crime novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Shatter the Bones and Dark Blood Detective Constable Ash Henderson has a dark secret! Five years ago his daughter, Rebecca, went missing on the eve of her thirteenth birthday. A year later the first card arrived: homemade, with a Polaroid picture stuck to the front--Rebecca, strapped to a chair, gagged and terrified. Every year another card: each one worse than the last. The tabloids call him The Birthday Boy. He's been snatching girls for twelve years, always in the run-up to their thirteenth birthday, sending the families his homemade cards showing their daughters being slowly tortured to death. But Ash hasn't told anyone about Rebecca's birthday cards--they all think she's just run away from home--because if anyone finds out, he'll be taken off the investigation. And he's sacrificed too much to give up before his daughter's killer gets what he deserves.

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