"No era un viaje normal por carretera…Miami, Nueva Orleans, Kansas City, Omaha, Chicago, Cleveland. Un hombre, una mujer, un coche y una cámara fotográfica. Él secuestra, mata y después fotografía a sus víctimas. Ella writes about what happened and make sure you have correctly captured the story, because he knows that he todo.La detective reviews Mercedes Barren has reason to pursue: her niece was a victim. And the psychiatrist Martin Jeffers, a specialist in sex crimes. An odyssey. An expedition. A nightmare that goes into the next day ... with Portrait in blood. "
All novels by John Katzenbach share the same flaw: a tendency to fill with straw excessive mental approximately 200 pages on average in each novel, so that taking into account that usually comprise about 500 pages (512, where "Portrait in blood") can almost speak of half of a work. It is a pity, because Katzenbach knows how to build characters of great depth and interesting plots, but their virtues are lost in its labyrinthine insights, sometimes causing a rather heavy reading.
"Portrait in Blood" continues with this trend irregular. The story begins with the discovery of a corpse, a young woman raped and strangled, we must thank the author does not wallow in the sordid details, which happens to be one in a long series. The other difference is that this girl is the niece of a police detective, Mercedes Barren, which, although evidence points to a culprit, he decided to heed their instincts and begin a search the real murderer alone, regardless of their department and with one goal in mind: revenge.
same time, a man named Douglas Jeffers decided to undertake a long journey, "a sentimental journey" as he confided to his brother a psychiatrist. With the introduction of the character, we know from the outset the identity of the particular nemesis of Detective Barren, a ruthless serial murderer who has devoted his life to perfecting the art of death in all its possible variants. Jeffers, who has what would be the equivalent of a psychotic midlife crisis, decides it's time to take a reporter to document their journey. And it is then kidnapped a college student, Anne Hampton, to devote to such a useful task.
Since then, the novel becomes a game of search and seizure between the four characters: Mercedes Barren, Dr. Jeffers, Jeffers and Anne Douglas Hampton. Such is the vigor with which these characters are drawn all the other side are practically anecdotal and in fact, the story is more focused on the ties that bind them in the criminal adventure in itself. On the one hand, the antagonism between the detective and the murderer's brother, who undertake the quest together, each for different reasons, and secondly, the terrifying tug of war between Jeffers and kidnapped the girl, who is forced to undergo a learning forced marches. The novel glides seamlessly along the wide roads to circulate his characters, but stumbles when he subjects the reader to self-analytical verbiage of the murderer, the detective autofustigamientos Barren, extensive guilt of Dr. Jeffers. The pace is improving during therapy sessions with his psychiatrist's patients, all murderers and rapists, it is during those moments when they reveal the keys that make the novel a recommended reading.
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