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De doodsvogel por Samuel Bjørk
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De doodsvogel (edición 2016)

por Samuel Bjørk, Renée Vink

Series: Munch & Krüger (2)

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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:The thrilling follow-up to Samuel Bjørk??s internationally bestselling I'm Traveling Alone, which The Wall Street Journal calls ??tense and smartly constructed? 
When a troubled teenager disappears from an orphanage and is found murdered, her body arranged on a bed of feathers, veteran investigator Holger Munch and his team are called into the case. Star investigator Mia Kruger, on temporary leave while she continues to struggle with her own demons, jumps back on the team and dives headfirst into this case: just in time to decode the clues in a disturbing video of the victim before she was killed, being held prisoner like an animal in a cage.
Meanwhile, Munch??s daughter, Miriam, meets an enticing stranger at a party??a passionate animal rights activist who begins to draw her into his world and away from her family. 
Munch, Kruger, and the team must hunt down the killer before he can strike again in this sophisticated, intricately plotted psychological thriller by the newest phenomenon in internation
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Miembro:BettyDeBoeck
Título:De doodsvogel
Autores:Samuel Bjørk
Otros autores:Renée Vink
Información:Amsterdam Luitingh-Sijthoff 2016
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The Owl Always Hunts At Night por Samuel Bjork

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I read 'I'm Travelling Alone', the first book in this series, back in May after letting it languish on my TBR shelves for way too long. I was pleased to find that the book had engaging characters, avoided glamorising serial killers, had a twisty plot with excellent pacing and that, if it had a core message, it was that bad things shouldn't be allowed to happen to children and when they do, the effects last a lifetime.

I decided to read the rest of the series, partly because I liked Samuel Bjørk's storytelling and partly because I wanted to see what would happen to Holger Munch and Mia Kruger.

There are a lot of good things in 'The Owl Always Hunts At Night'. The premise is original, graphic and mysterious. There are moments of intense tension and the ending is both unexpected and truly spectacular. The characters are portrayed in a way that is powered by clinical insight leavened with a little empathy. One of the characters has a form of mental illness that makes him see the world so differently from the rest of us that even something as simple as going grocery shopping is fraught with risk. I loved the way that Samuel Bjørk showed me the world through this confused man's eyes, then showed me how others would see him and then showed me that everything he said made sense but only if you understand how the man's mind worked. I liked that the story was told by following events happening to different groups of people. It kept the narrative fresh, widened the focus beyond the investigative team, and kept me guessing about how the people and events would connect. It was a little like trying to guess the picture a jigsaw will make when you're handed the pieces in a way that keeps the image fragmented.

I enjoyed 'The Owl Always Hunts At Night', but I didn't think it worked as well as the first book Some of that was just Second Book Syndrome (the need to précis the events of the previous book, the loss of novelty, and the urge to go bigger and better on the stress and the complexity), some of it was that it seemed to me that the pacing got a bit soggy in the middle, some of it was that the explanation of the premise was a little over-elaborate. Mostly, I think it was just that the book was darker than I'd expected and that I found that darkness hard to relate to. The premise was more twisted and sadistic than I'd expected and although the worst things all happened off-screen, Samuel Bjørk made sure that my imagination filled in the blanks. I was also thrown out of the story by what seemed to me to be an unrealistically high incidence of mental illness as a mechanism for moving the plot forward. This was often done with empathy and respect but I felt there was too much of it and that. overall it relied on the mentally ill being seen as threatening in a way that they seldom are in real life.

My reaction to Mia Kruger caught me by surprise. I quite liked her in the first book. This time around, I lost all sympathy for her. I don't think this is a weakness of the book. I think it's one of the reactions Samuel Bjørk sets the reader up to have but it surprised me. Mia's sustained fixation on suicidal ideation wearied me. I wanted to shout "Live. Don't Live. It's Your Choice. But don't get paralysed by being unable to take the choice or make it go away." I think wanting to shout at a character is a sign that the author has brought you fully into the world that they've created but it made it harder for me to relax into the book.

The ending of the book is rapid and spectacular. I felt that I'd been brought to a good conclusion and that I was still committed enough to the main characters to want to know what will happen in the next book, 'The Boy In The Headlights'

I recommend listening to the audiobook, which is skilfully narrated by Laura Paton. ( )
  MikeFinnFiction | Jan 17, 2023 |
disappointing. the first book was much better. this one repeated too much of the first book, the characters seemed thinner and forced, the decisions and actions of the characters were very illogical and out of place, and the plot wasn't very surprising either. mediocre would be the best descriptor here. ( )
  tuusannuuska | Dec 1, 2022 |
The Owl Always Hunts at Night is the sequel to I'm traveling Alone is just like the first book a great crime novel. Miriam Holger's daughter gets caught up with an animal rights activist group that will draw her away from her family and may put her in danger. Meanwhile, Holger and Mina try to find out who could have starved and killed a young girl and put her on a bed of feathers in the woods.

As with the first book did I listen to this one and I really love the Swedish audiobook version. The next book will I listen to in English and it will be an interesting change. I think if you like Scandinavian crime novels is the Holger Much & Mia Kruger series a must read. I quite like Holger, Mia and the rest of the crime-solving gang and I'm looking forward to listening to The Boy in the Headlights.

I recommend reading this book after you have read I'm Traveling Alone! ( )
  MaraBlaise | Jul 23, 2022 |
The prologue showed great promise. It had a fabulous Nordic Murder Mystery feel from the start. Then it fell flat towards the middle of the book. The story for the most part was good but it was missing something. I couldn't make myself care about the characters. I might have felt differently had I read the first book in the series. ( )
  christyco125 | Jul 4, 2022 |
I really liked Bjork's I'm Traveling Alone, and while I like his writing and dark Scandinavian noir plots, this case was less interesting. A team of detectives led by Holger Munch and Mia Kruger investigate the death of a troubled teen girl, whose naked, emaciated body was found posed in a candled pentagram, on a bed of owl feathers, wearing a blonde wig. The girl lived at a home for troubled teenagers, and Bjork keeps us guessing as to the murderer. I think the book suffered somewhat from the skipping story lines and characters, both the investigated and the investigators. We have the continuation of Holger's family strife and Mia's continued inability to accept her twin's heroin overdose, but we also learn of other personal problems on the task force. The techie Gabriel continues to be a highlight, joined by a former hacker buddy, nicknamed Skunk. If you like a lot of psychology, this one is for you. Lots of head cases here. ( )
  skipstern | Jul 11, 2021 |
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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:The thrilling follow-up to Samuel Bjørk??s internationally bestselling I'm Traveling Alone, which The Wall Street Journal calls ??tense and smartly constructed? 
When a troubled teenager disappears from an orphanage and is found murdered, her body arranged on a bed of feathers, veteran investigator Holger Munch and his team are called into the case. Star investigator Mia Kruger, on temporary leave while she continues to struggle with her own demons, jumps back on the team and dives headfirst into this case: just in time to decode the clues in a disturbing video of the victim before she was killed, being held prisoner like an animal in a cage.
Meanwhile, Munch??s daughter, Miriam, meets an enticing stranger at a party??a passionate animal rights activist who begins to draw her into his world and away from her family. 
Munch, Kruger, and the team must hunt down the killer before he can strike again in this sophisticated, intricately plotted psychological thriller by the newest phenomenon in internation

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