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The Hanging (2013)

by Lotte Hammer(Favorite Author)
2.98 of 5 Votes: 1
ISBN
0312656645 (ISBN13: 9780312656645)
languge
English
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publisher
Minotaur Books
series
Konrad Simonsen
review 1: Corpos mutilados, pendurados no teto de uma escola. Um policial acima do peso tirado de suas férias. É como esses elementos que se inicia o interessante livro dos irmãos Lotte e Soren Hammer. Tentando dialogar com um problema sério na Dinamarca, a pedofilia, os irmãos Hammer nos fazem questionar até que ponto a população pode agir contra criminosos. Um tema delicado que leva a opiniões e ações emotivas, é nos meandros desse questionamento que segue a obra. Se a população acha que a Justiça foi feita por quem matou os pedófilos, como agirá a polícia? Leitura interessante do "scandicrime", tocando mais uma vez em assuntos de relevância social, essa obra de estreia é importante para confrontar algumas certezas do público.
review 2: Lousy attem
... morept to write a police procedural. No sense of what provides the reading pleasure in such novels, the building of suspense, the development of character, the various possible solutions that the investigative team pursues. The chief character stops one of his subordinates from ideating because he says he'd rather engage in action than speculation! So basically it becomes a blow by blow forensic investigation which is definitely not my cup of tea. The authors also need a class in character development. None of the characters was interesting, their relationships were caught in media res (which is fine with a skilled narration to fill in the details) and I found the dialogue just plain boring. less
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Redneckginger
I can't finish this book --- for reasons well explained by other reviewers. Positively painful.
Tess
Terrible! Interesting plot idea, but too many characters with no focal point. Poorly edited.
jellywhite13
Lost interest. Maybe something lost in translation.
Tc1234
a 2.5
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