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Sei Morto, Detective (2013)

by William Heffernan(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Mondadori

review 1: I was attracted to this book by the title and the premise that Harry shared some bond with the dead through his own death. That angle and Harry’s feelings for his mother are quite well developed. The rest of the story is a pretty straight up and down police procedural focusing on the hunt for an unstable serial killer. The characterisation is quite nicely realised, but the characters are cookie-cut from the genre’s tropes - Harry has a reputation as being a brilliant detective, a tough guy with hang-ups, who is happy to skirt around proper procedure (think Harry Bosch or Rebus); Vicky is the hyper-sensitive female cop with a large chip on her shoulder; the Church minister is mainly concerned with reputation and growing his flock and has a wayward son who has been troub... morele with the law, etc. Whilst Heffernan lays down a series of red herrings, the plot is fairly mundane and to a seasoned crime fiction reader the identity of the killer is fairly obvious a good distance from the end of the book. That all said, the story is well told and Harry Doyle is worth spending some time with.
review 2: This was a very good police procedural, nicely plotted (except I suspected "who done it" in the beginning). The twist here is Harry Doyle is called the "dead detective" because is mother murdered him and his younger brother when they were boys. He was brought back to life by the cops, but his brother died. His mother is still in prison for these crimes, and one of the sub-plots is Harry's determination that she should stay there. He also claims that dead bodies "talk" to him about their killers. Sometimes Heffernan's writing reminded me of Michael Connelly's, but Connelly usually has more twists in his plotting. All in all, a good read. less

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