Gordon Ferris
Autor de The Hanging Shed
Sobre El Autor
Series
Obras de Gordon Ferris
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1949-01-25
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Scotland, UK
- País (para mapa)
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 13
- Miembros
- 587
- Popularidad
- #42,723
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 31
- ISBNs
- 74
- Idiomas
- 2
In addition to being demobbed and living a precarious existence, Danny is plagued with migraines, blackouts, and memories of his time at Dachau concentration camp. The memories are horrifying, the migraines are painful, but the blackouts are terrifying because they also seem to coincide with attacks by a serial killer who seems to fancy himself the new Jack the Ripper. Danny isn’t a killer, is he?
This was a vivid, occasionally disturbing book. Post-war London is a grim place indeed, and it is not sentimentalized in these pages. And Danny’s post-traumatic stress is certainly not glossed over. That said, the solution was a little weird for my tastes, and there were some parts that were probably too disturbing (namely how one of the women is killed).
Nevertheless, I would suggest you try this book if you’re interested in books set in London post-WW2, the private-eye genre transplanted to England, or maybe the Red Riding series by David Peace—both that series and this book feature similar sets of murders, they have a similar atmosphere, and both feature corrupt coppers.… (más)