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Chargement... Psycho (2006)par Richard Montanari
   Books Read in 2012 (501) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) jdiggity83 | Jun 23, 2022 |   ) jguidry | Dec 1, 2020 | Lin456 | Oct 21, 2020 | In the Skin Gods, broken but still-in-the-game Detective Kevin Byrne and his partner Jessica Balzano discover that the spliced-to-videotape murder of a young woman is just the beginning of a series of murders-by-film-homage. As Jessica follows ‘The Actor’s deliberately seeded clues and Byrne spends his enforced recuperation leave pursuing personal vendettas, the plot winds in seemingly random directions, the only straight line being from one murder to the next. There’s something punchy, grass-roots gutsy about Montanari’s storytelling, so that even when he moves over old ground (forensic procedure, relationships between cops, the habits of the cops themselves) they feel like important parts of the storyline rather than a writer deliberately trying to inject authenticity, thus gaining authenticity and freshening well-trodden routes. It helps that the stories themselves are fresh, diverting and quite gruesome. Two mild disappointments – [spoiler warning] for the second time, a principal character’s family is placed in danger and rescued last moment, and for the second time the motive is revenge for a cop’s actions. The details are different enough that I was still able to enjoy the story, but it did occur to me to wonder if Montanari’s plot wheel is stuck. And, finally, I still don’t know what to make of Byrne’s ‘prescient’ ability. It’s never used to solve the identity of the bad guy, but has bumped forward progress when time has been an issue, so is this deus ex machina, or a sort of sub-genre in play? It has not, so far, made me put down either story in disgust, so I guess I’ll keep going – I have the third book here, too, after all. (  ) eleanor_eader | Aug 30, 2011 | I Dödsscen tar Montanari emellertid den här och många andra autentiska filmscener till en helt ny nivå. Mördaren, som föga förvånande får smeknamnet Skådespelaren, arrangerar nämligen sina mord precis som de ser ut i filmens värld. Naturligtvis filmar han hela spektaklet, redigerar om den aktuella filmen, lämnar in den till en videouthyrningsbutik och sedan kan hela världen se vad han har åstadkommit. Ingen går säker. Inte ens någon som står någon i utredningsteamet mycket nära. Jag föll pladask för Richard Montanaris när jag läste hans smått genialiska En sista bön och Villebråd. Tyvärr håller inte den här boken samma höga klass. Jag tycker förvisso att sättet som mördaren utför sina mord tyder på en extremt hög fantasirikedom hos författaren och jag tycker om när författare presenterar nya grepp inom deckargenren. Vad jag däremot har svårare att acceptera är Kevin Byrnes förmåga att ”känna saker” som får alltför stort utrymme här. Dessutom tycker jag inte om när familjemedlemmar eller andra närstående blandas in i intrigen på ett förhållandevis brutalt sett. Med det menar jag inte att de ska vara fredade från motgångar, men i Dödsscen var det tämligen uppenbart hur det hela skulle sluta och det förtar mycket av spänningen. Värst var ändå våldet som trappades upp till orimliga proportioner och det hela blev direkt osmakligt till slut. Den här boken får knappt godkänt av mig men det betyder ingalunda att jag tänker vända Montanari ryggen. Det ska mer till än en förhållandevis medioker bok för att jag skall överge en författare som jag har fattat tycke för! (  ) annika97 | Feb 7, 2011 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la série
Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Richard Montanari's The Echo Man. With the breakneck pacing and intricate plotting of his most recent novel, The Rosary Girls, Richard Montanari established himself as one of the most exciting suspense writers working today. Now he proves himself a virtuoso with The Skin Gods, an explosive new thriller featuring Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano. It is the steaming heart of summer in the City of Brotherly Love. Back on the force after taking a bullet during the arrest of a sadistic murderer, Detective Kevin Byrne warily returns to police headquarters. He cannot shake the memory of the Rosary Killer?? s innocent victims??or his growing sense that the evil has not been vanquished. And when he and his partner, Detective Jessica Balzano, are called in on a bizarre case, Byrne??s gravest suspicions are confirmed. A madman, dubbed The Actor by the homicide unit, is meticulously re-creating Hollywood??s most famous??and most gruesome??death scenes. The first murder is caught on film, spliced into a rented VHS edition of the Hitchcock black-and-white masterpiece Psycho. But in place of Janet Leigh is a real-life woman, and this time, the blood is red and the knife is real. Soon, more thrilling classics are turned into terrifying snuff films and placed on video store shelves for an unsuspecting public to find. The key to this horrific puzzle could lie with any of The Skin Gods?? supporting cast: the A-list Hollywood director, the ruthless executive assistant, the convicted mass murderer??or perhaps someone else who has made a sinister art of gruesome violence. Hot on the psychopath??s trail, Balzano and Byrne descend into the mouth of madness and beyond, deep into the depraved underworld of S&M clubs and the porn industry, where the worship of flesh leads to malevolent evil. Before the final credits roll, the investigators will discover that none of The Actor??s victims are as innocent as they appear to be, and that the clue the police need to prevent future murders might be found in Dete Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
Auteur LibraryThingRichard Montanari est un auteur LibraryThing, c'est-à-dire un auteur qui catalogue sa bibliothèque personnelle sur LibraryThing. Discussion en coursAucunCouvertures populaires
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