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Lädt ... Chalk Valleyvon D.L. Johnstone
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#1 on Amazon Movers & Shakers!Amazon Top 50 Police Procedural Bestseller!In a remote mountain valley in British Columbia, the remains of three victims are found secreted deep in the woods. A serial killer is at work.Detectives find themselves in a deadly cat and mouse game with a murderous psychopath, a race against time with innocent victims in play.Can they stop the Chalk Valley Killer before he claims more lives?Praise for CHALK VALLEY"Chalk Valley presents a balance of action, police technique, and character development that is incredibly rare to find period, and damn near unheard of in a debut." Book Reviews by Elizabeth A. White"Johnstone is devilishly creative and has done extensive research to create the terrifyingly macabre and realistic story. Definitely keep the lights on when reading 'Chalk Valley'!!" Bibliophilic Book Blog"The writer was amazing with the character development and suspense building." Bookluvrs Haven Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The novel highlights the way Canadian jurisdictions often compete with each other, but also that local policemen are often not equipped either through knowledge of experience to run a more complex case.
Lead investigator John McCarty really doesn't have the capacity for the bigger picture. He is convinced the way to go is to sift all the evidence from phone ins etc, categorise the data, and then proceed. The problem is that this is time consuming, and doesn't really ask the investigators to think too much.
This was indeed turning out to be a very different kind of murder case than the domestics and drug murders Chalk Valley was used to.
He thought through how he would run the meeting. Just keep it under control; it’s my case, and no Vancouver Metro shit for brains is going to take it over or tell me how to run it. Cases are built up of a delicate web of leads, evidence, information known only to the cop and the suspect, fragile strands to be protected at all costs. The last thing any cop wanted would be for some numbnuts to fuck things up and taint their witness by asking the wrong question, backing them into an error or even a lie, making it inadmissible in court, which in turn could basically shoot a case all to hell. When you share, you lose control.
Ironically, there was a time, early in the novel, when, if McCarty had been carrying out his duties as he should have been, he would have nipped a crime in the bud and been able to take the serial killer before he killed another woman.
Add to that the fact that McCarty has personal problems.
In fact it takes a persistent RCMP Sergeant following his gut feeling and an experienced observer from Metro to set the ball rolling. Meanwhile the reader has always known who the murderer is.
A novel with this structure, where the characters don't make all the connections, but the reader is omniscient, is not easy carry off and the author does it pretty well.
I particularly liked the characterisation, the occasional touches of irony, and real human interest that surfaced. ( )