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Cargando... Firewatching (2020)por Russ Thomas
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. DNF I've been looking forward to reading Firewatching for ages and boy do I wish I had read this fabulous book sooner. DS Adam Tyler solely represents South Yorkshire Police's Cold Case Department. When a body is found in a house at the edge of the Peak District he finds it's linked to a cold case and he quickly becomes involved in the investigation. The title of the book refers to somebody who is setting fires and whilst this isn't the focus of the book initially, it soon becomes clear that there may be more to it than first meets the eye. What a protagonist Adam Tyler is. He's a gay man struggling to survive in a toxic environment where anyone who falls into a minority group is ridiculed and bullied. And yet he's a strong person, using his standoffishness as a defence mechanism. I really enjoyed how he strengthened relations with his colleagues as the story progressed. The book is set in Sheffield and, as a Sheffielder I loved that. It's always such a delight to recognise the backdrop to a story. The small village in the Peak District that features strongly was also portrayed perfectly. The sense of everybody knowing everything about you really came through and I was enthralled as everything unravelled. At 430 pages this is not a short book but I raced through it. The plotting is superb. Russ Thomas is so skilled at building up the story without giving anything away to the extent that I was totally pulled into the unfolding events with not a clue where any of it was heading, right the way up to the denouement which elicited a "what?!" from me. I had no idea! I suppose you could call Firewatching a police procedural. It's mostly about the police investigations, with added input from two elderly ladies who live in the village. But where some police procedurals seem to be to be rather dull, this one is so alive with tension and intrigue it's practically on fire (see what I did there?). In case you hadn't guessed, I thought this book was an absolute cracker. I couldn't put it down and found it thoroughly engrossing. I'm now counting down to book two, Nighthawking. Firewatching is a gold mine for character-driven readers. So much of this investigation revolves around the relationships between the characters both past and present. It was a bit difficult warming up to Adam Tyler because he works so hard to keep everyone at arm's length, but I finally did, and it had everything to do with those relationships I mentioned. Constable Amina Rabbani shows a lot of promise as a detective if a bit too much zeal, but she's been working hard to prove herself-- not only to her fellow police officers, but to her family who wants her to remain immersed in their strict Muslim culture. Occasional chapters, or blog posts, from the killer/arsonist have more to do with the story than merely deducing whodunit. I found the mounting numbers of page views, followers, and comments on these posts disturbing. This is a book that has a lot going on, and all the elements blend together nicely. I should have figured out the identity of the killer, but I was trying too hard to find out what made Tyler tick. Russ Thomas is a strong new voice in crime fiction, and I am definitely looking forward to more investigations with Adam Tyler. Firewatching – A scorching debut Firewatching is the debut thriller of Russ Thomas and a gripping one at that. Thank God he escaped from doing a proper job and stuck with writing. Though I am sure there are many authors who will point out, writing is a proper job especially when you are published – eventually. Firewatching besides being Russ Thomas’ debut thriller it is also the introduction to a new crime fighting detective, DS Adam Tyler. Based in Sheffield and with the South Yorkshire Police Force, Tyler is unusual for anyone from SY Police, he actually finds criminals, maybe the real South Yorkshire Police might like to give that a go for a change? Called out to a cold case in an old vicarage where the body of a long-deceased body has been found behind a wall in the cellar. So begins a story, of sexual deviancy, abuse, and murder, which somehow Tyler will have to work, sometimes in spite of himself, and maybe even to prove some of his colleagues wrong. Used to working on his own, he has been partnered up WPC Rabbani, an aspiring detective, who gets put upon by DC Doggett and DS Daley. She has a grudging respect for Tyler, especially when he remembers they are supposed to be working as a team. With an arsonist and a murderer on the loose, Tyler has no time to lose, except on his nights off, when by chance he ends up in the bed of Oscar, the murder victims son. Tyler cannot workout if Oscar purposefully made a play for him, but he does trust his friend Sally-Ann. Little does Tyler know, how much this investigation is going to cost him, physically and mentally, it might even cost him his job. Trying to do the right thing, he has to omit facts that will come back and bite him later. It does not help, the village where the Old Vicarage is like the village of the damned. Everyone has a secret, could be the killer and someone likes burning things, even the church. What Tyler has to hope is that he does not become the target of the Firewatcher at any point. This is an excellent debut thriller with a few twists, that will leave you breathless and impressed. When you think you have worked out who the killer is, there is that twist that shows you how wrong you are. This is certainly a scorcher of a debut, which starts with a fire and possibly ends with a fire, with plenty of excellent story telling in the middle. DS Tyler, who works in the cold case unit, wangles his way onto the team investigating the discovery of the body of a man who went missing six years ago, bricked up behind a wall in his cellar. I liked Tyler, and I found the police procedural parts very readable. However the arson blog posts were long and took me out of the story, and I got tired of the drip feeding of clues from Lilian too. I felt Tyler and his DC Rabbani didn't really gel as a duo, so if they are going to appear in future books there is work to do there. My other issues with the story include all the pointless interviewing, where the police asked a few questions of people they could tell were lying or withholding information, and then just left it at that. Finally, the solving of the case necessitated the arsonist explaining (and it took pages) exactly what had happened. While this explanation did tie things up neatly, it wasn't particularly emotionally satisfactory and depended on most of the characters having felt it was best to cover up terrible crimes for years. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesDS Adam Tyler (1)
"When financier Gerald Cartwright disappeared from his home six years ago, it was assumed he'd gone on the run from his creditors. But then a skeleton is found bricked up in the cellar of Cartwright's burned-out mansion, and it becomes clear Gerald never left alive. As the sole representative of South Yorkshire's Cold Case Review Unit, Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is not expected to get results, but he knows this is the case that might finally kick start his floundering career. Luckily, he already has a suspect. Unluckily, that suspect is Cartwright's son, the man Tyler slept with the night before. Keeping his possible conflict-of-interest under wraps, Tyler digs into the case alongside Amina Rabbani, an ambitious young Muslim constable and a fellow outsider seeking to prove herself on the force. Soon their investigation will come up against close-lipped townsfolk, an elderly woman with dementia who's receiving mysterious threats referencing a past she can't remember, and an escalating series of conflagrations set by a troubled soul intent on watching the world burn."-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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