Lieutenant Jonathan Stride is suffering an unpleasant episode of déjà vu. For the second time in a year, a pretty teenager has disappeared from the streets of Duluth, a small, quiet town on the banks of a lake. Victims can not be more different: first was the sweet Kerry McGrath and now Rachel Deese is a problem and seductive girl.
Stride pressuring media to capture what they see as a serial murderer, but he tormented by the loss of his wife and their inability to solve the case of Kerry, does not believe that the solution is simple. In fact, as you unravel the mysteries of the case of Rachel, warns that it is much more complex and evil.
This is my first encounter with Brian Freeman, author nominated for the Gold Dagger and published in Spain by the library plot, belonging to Ediciones B . Unfortunately, the commercial hook of the novel lies in selling "originality", which from the first moment you start with an expectation that it will soon be disappointed to recognize many elements already read in other stories of similar nature. Nor does it mean that the book is bad, on the contrary, in its dual nature of best-selling novel and intimate, convinces with a very disturbing story, even addictive in its final stretch. Now it is evident that the author knows perfectly all mechanisms to keep the author in the air, which gets loosely with a colorful history that presents a teenage femme fatale (Rachel the former, true protagonist of the story), a transcript and sexual perverse "Laura "Preminger's or" Rebecca "by Du Maurier , its shadow, either alive or dead, hangs over the novel with unusual persistence.
Alas, for now, the whole has a whiff of fried, to digest all those responsible for policing in vogue (from Michael Connelly Dennis Lehane to through or Henning Mankell Val McDermid ) and of course, the prose falters often laden topics such as the police blitz widower and his relationship with the teacher or the sensational trial. All Freeman lacks in style it makes up a certain skill, retaining readers and less demanding at the mercy of their history and character. The best, without doubt, the division of the plot into two parts, the time when girls disappear, and years later, the final solution of the mystery that is revealed as logical as satisfactory for puzzle lovers well armed. The ideal novel for a boring Sunday afternoon.
TITLE: "Immoral"
AUTHOR: BRIAN FREEMAN
EDITORIAL: ISSUES B
YEAR: 2007 SCORE
**** (three shots)
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