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Nådens Omkrets (2011)

by Jørgen Brekke(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

8252576923 (ISBN13: 9788252576924)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS

series

Odd Singsaker

review 1: A compelling debut from Jorgen Brekke. Since I lived in Richmond, this book caught my eye and I'm sure glad it did. How delicious is it to have a macabre murder in the Edgar Allen Poe Museum? Or, at least for me, a similar murder in a library? This book actually has three main characters, two of which are modern day detectives and the third a sixteenth century priest who might be a serial murderer. The sixteenth century character is a man who is telling his life story throughout this book. It becomes a novel of his life that serves as the connection that weaves all three characters lives together. Felicia Stone is the Richmond police detective called to the scene of a gruesome murder in the Edgar Allen Poe Museum. There she finds the flayed and beheaded body of the... more museum director. Half a world away, Odd Singsaker, a Norwegian police inspector is called to a local library where he finds a librarian flayed and beheaded. While both Stone and Singsaker search local, state and national databases they can find no other similar crimes. Only through a stroke of luck does Stone find a connection. Stone is soon in Norway where she and Singsaker begin the search for both the killer and the sixteenth century novel. Billed as a mystery, this book is equal parts thriller and not for the faint of heart. The modern day characters are likeable and Brekke provides great background stories to support their frailties. A docked the book a star because of the odd pacing, the flashbacks to the sixteenth century destroy some of the books rhythm, and because his knowledge of Richmond geography and street layouts is a little off. A highly-recommended debut and a book that you will want to leave the light on for awhile aftr you finish.
review 2: This was a good story, a police procedural, an historical mystery, and an anthropological study on the origins of the study of anatomy and surgery. The descriptions of places and libraries, procedures of book conservation, the life changing aftermath of casual evil, and finally the surprising ability to overcome evil tendencies, just a very rich story. As the case in the most enjoyable of historical fiction that I have read, I am left having learned, and perhaps experienced a very different time, several disparate places, while being intrigued and entertained. I highly recommend this book, and look forward to more from this author. less

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