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Critique Of Criminal Reason: A Mystery (2008)

by Michael Gregorio(Favorite Author)

3.32 of 5 Votes: 1

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English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Minotaur Books

series

Hanno Stiffeniis

review 1: I found this by searching for Prussia at my local public library. I wasn't expecting to find novels taking place in Prussia. I was insanely pleased to find this author.It is author, but in reality Michael Gregorio is two authors in one. The book doesn't read like that at all.So this takes place around the time Napoleon was wreaking havoc in Europe and his march east into foreign lands was a given thing that everybody dreaded. In this particular story Napoleon is a distant threat.Konigsberg, the capital city of Prussia, is gripped in the fist of a serial killer. Nobody knows who's doing the killings and what the motive is. Enter Hanno Stiffeniis, a persecutor out in the boonies outside of Konigsberg. He has been summoned to the capital to help in the investigation to captur... moree the culprit before the general populace finds out and panics. Nothing like this had ever happened in Prussia.Stiffeniis is surprised to find out that the person who summoned him, through official and military channels, was none other than Immanuel Kantz. Kantz was sure that through certain examinations of corpses, evidence, sketches, and witnesses, you are able to reach a conclusion as to who the real criminal is.After much false starts and many encounters, some not so pleasant, Stiffeniis finds out who the real criminal is. Unfortunately the person cannot be prosecuted due to having died before, possibly killed by hungry wolves.Here Stiffeniis learns the art of forensic investigations that his mentor Kantz tried very hard to teach him. I liked that this was written in first person point of view. It did give a good insight into all of Stiffeniis' thoughts, worries, and feelings.It also gave me a window of Prussia in the 19th century. It was a cruel and cold world back then. I know it's a novel and the author has artistic license, but I'm sure they got their information from reliable sources. This was a very good read.(
review 2: Chi può essere l'unico possibile precursore del metodo d'indagine deduttivo, prima ancora di colui che lo ha portato alla fama, vale a dire Sherlok Holmes? Immanuel Kant, il grande filosofo che spinse la sua mente oltre ogni limite della ragione.E sarà Hanno Stiffenius, procuratore prussiano, uomo che ha visto il male nonché riluttante allievo di Kant, a seguire passo passo la strada che il suo maestro ha preparato per lui, fino a risolvere gli orrendi misteri di Koninsberg, e dell'animo umano.Primo libro di una serie dedicata al procuratore, è scorrevole anche se ancora un po' immaturo. less

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