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Chargement... 13 Steps Down (original 2004; édition 2009)par Ruth Rendell (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreLa Treizième Marche par Ruth Rendell (2004)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Audiobook ( ) This book came across my shelves as a book club monthly read. I am familiar with Rendell's classic British mysteries, but somehow had missed out on the fact that she writes wonderfully suspenseful thrillers. 13 Steps Down fits into the latter category since there is the lack of a detective and you follow the crimes from the murderer's point of view through most of the story. Mix, a young man in love with fame, celebrities, and wealth is followed closely in this novel as the author recounts the growing obsession the character feels towards a serial killer from his neighborhood and a local well-known fashion model. Mix is absorbed with crime literature showcasing the life of his hero, Reggie Christie, who brutally killed numerous women, and visits the former place of residence of the murderer. He begins to stalk Narissa, the beautiful model, and convinces himself they can have a future together. The dream of the "perfect" woman he believes her to be leads him to murders that he then rationalizes by the actions of his hero. The story took a few chapters to truly hold my curiosity, but as the feelings of his idolization and obsession grows, so does the suspense of the book. The reader is given an in-depth look inside of the mind of a killer and the ways his heinous actions are justified in his mind. It is sufficiently dark, gripping, and disturbing. Now for the bad. I did feel that some of the plot twists were hard to swallow. Narissa, knowing that Mix is stalking her, receives him into her home towards the end of the book. I didn't feel like this was in character for her and was quite surprised by this turn. Also, throughout the book you are given a look into the twisted mind of Mix. At times, he sees a ghost, that he believes to be that of Reggie Christie, in the old home he rents a room from. I'm not sure why this wasn't explained as a figment of his menacing, obsessive imagination. Instead, it's a homeless man who somehow manages to sneak into the house and basically "squat" unnoticed for months. Seems highly unlikely. Overall, I rated this novel extremely high. I loved the suspense and the look at the deviant mind behind a killer. Ruth Rendell will be added to my "must-read" shelf.
«13 trinn ned», som kom på engelsk for fire år siden, er en av de fineste psykologiske thrillerne til Ruth Rendell. Hun har en uovertruffen evne til å beskrive det unormale slik at det framstår som normalt, før hun litt etter litt viser oss viser oss hvor skjevt personene hennes egentlig oppfatter virkeligheten. Dessuten har hun, som så mange engelske forfattere, en naturlig (og litt ondskapsfull) humoristisk sans, som gjør bøkene hennes ekstra underholdende. Rendell skruvar sin historia till det makabra : Temat i Ruth Rendells senast till svenska översatta roman är livslögn. Liksom några av hennes föregående romaner, till exempel ”Gälla för död” och ”Rottweilern”, är Tretton steg en psykologisk thriller. Spänningen ligger alltså mer på det inre planet än på det yttre. Båda de huvudagerande, den 80-åriga miss Chawcer och hennes inneboende i det halvt förfallna Londonhuset, den femtio år yngre mekanikern Mix Cellini, lever i egna världar. Att få dem att passa ihop med den värld de faktiskt tillhör går utanför deras förmåga
Fiction.
Literature.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML: Mix Cellini has just moved into a flat in a decaying house in Nottinghill, where he plans to pursue his two abiding passions??supermodel Nerissa Nash, whom he worships from afar, and the life of serial killer Reggie Christie, hanged fifty years earlier for murdering at least eight women. Gwendolen Chawcer, Mix's eighty-year-old landlady, has few interests besides her old books and her new tenant. But she does have an intriguing connection to Christie. And when reality intrudes into Mix's life, he turns to Christie for inspiration and a long pent-up violence explodes. Intricately plotted and brilliantly written, 13 Steps Down enters the minds of these disparate people as they move inexorably toward its breathtaking conclusion. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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