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Jij Bent Het Kwaad (2013)

by Roberto Costantini(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

9028425179 (ISBN13: 9789028425170)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Wereldbibliotheek

series

Trilogia del Male

review 1: Rome, Italy, where the dark maelstrom of politics, religion and criminal wealth roars beneath society.Starts off okay, but the headstrong, dangerous womanizer Michele Balistreri and his polar opposite buddy Angelo Dioguardi are called for a missing person report at Dioguardi's place of employ. The investigation is slipshod because Balistreri wants to watch Italy's team in the World Cup that night. The missing girl is later found sadistically murdered.Balistreri builds a case against the Count's son. This case is scuttled when an absent witness returns and places the time of the victim's disappearance two hours later. Meanwhile the Count's wife commits suicide due to the arrest of her son.In the intervening decade Balistreri arrests four youths for brutally murdering a wom... morean and carving the letter "R" on her. However the men are illiterate.Years later Balistreri is investigating yet another disappearance of one, possibly two Romanian prostitutes linked to crime and the police. Slowly the cast of characters from the initial murder investigation make their way into this one.Unfortunately it falls apart in the final third as the author attempts to go for poignant commentary about the human condition, thus sacrificing the plausibility of the plot. It also feels rushed, as if Roberto Constantini couldn't decide what poignant point he wanted to make.Everything hinges on a criminal plot so convoluted it's rickety.It's James Elroy meets Ed McBain, with Thomas Harris thrown in.I prefer Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen series. These are more poignant because Zen finds the truth and everybody else, being corrupt, are convinced he did a great job fabricating this truth for political expediency.
review 2: Una lettura impegnativa e, almeno nella prima parte, non facile. Il protagonista principale, un commissario ex-picchiatore fascista e donnaiolo impenitente, non è esattamente un eroe positivo e i personaggi di contorno (un conte del partito monarchico, un cardinale abituato a manipolare la gente, poliziotti corrotti, rom, gangsters rumeni..) non aiutano a rendere la lettura più agevole. Ciò nonostante si procede, anche se lentamente, perchè il libro è ben scritto. Poi passano 24 anni e il commissario subisce una sorta di redenzione, il ritmo si fa più incalzante, i personaggi maggiormente delineati e la seconda parte scorre molto velocemente fino alla conclusione, anche se ho trovato la trama un po' troppo complicata.In conclusione, nonostante i difetti tipici di un'opera prima, è un buon giallo che lascia intravedere un potenziale autore di successo, se in futuro saprà correggere gli eccessi che qui non ha evitato. less

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