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Blutbad (2000)

by Raffi Yessayan(Favorite Author)

3.38 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

3596182069 (ISBN13: 9783596182060)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Fischer

review 1: Right from the start we learn that Eight in the Box is a legal term, referring to the number of people sitting on a jury. There are, quite literally, eight people in a box, in a courtroom, waiting to hear a trial and determine the fate of one person. There is a reason television shows like Law & Order have lasted as long as they have and keep multiplying, people love the dark side of the law. Raffi Yessayan writes about this gritty world with accuracy and doesn’t hold anything back. Yessayan, a former Boston prosecutor and now defense attorney, has walked the dark streets of Boston and writes from experience. In Eight in the Box we are immediately greeted with a brutal murder, a bathtub filled with blood and a serial killer, aptly named the “Blood Bath Killer.” Yessa... moreyan presents the reader with the facts and lets the story slowly unfold with spine-tingling details and a mysteriously cloaked killer named Richter. Yessayan will leave you turning the pages faster than you can say “Pahked the cah.” Move over Dennis Lehane, Boston has a new voice in crime fiction.
review 2: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS.I was thoroughly enjoying this novel of suspense until I got to the last few chapters. The killer sets up a friend and co-worker to take the blame. He does such a good job that the friend kills himself, leaving the police with the conviction that the killer is dead. There is no suggestion that the real killer will continue killing; he is a serial killer with a very contained motivation. SO - the police have no idea that one of their own is a serial killer. An innocent man is dead. The killer almost certainly goes free. This REALLY pisses me off. One of the main reasons I read mysteries is for the sense of justice done, the closure of the puzzle, the punishment of the wicked and the avenging of the wrongfully killed. EIGHT IN THE BOX has NONE of that. I think the writer has broken the unwritten contract with the reader, and I don't think the book is good enough for him/her to get away with it. I was angry when I got to the end. I've read otehr books where there is no official justice - no trial, no conviction - but there is some form of punishment or retribution. I've read mysteries where the victim "needed to be killed" and the killer goes free, but the (again, unwritten) sense is that this murder is a one-off, and the killer won't do it again. Neither situation makes me as angry as this one did. I suppose it speaks to the skill of Yessayan that I AM this upset . . . but it won't make me recommend this book to anyone. less

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