Sixteen Horses

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Davon, dass der Fall in 4 Tagen geklärt sein wird, wie die Chefetage der Polizei erwartet, kann keine Rede sein. It is bleak, atmospheric, disturbing, without a scintilla of light or hope, a novel that opens with the discovery on Well Farm of partially buried 16 horses heads with an eye facing up to the sky, with their tails nearby. I felt a connection to the crumbling seaside town as it reminded me of parts of where I grew up where houses crumble into the sea and farms are shut down to become housing developments. Mit der Weltuntergangsstimmung im Buch muss man als Leser umgehen können aber wenn man sich darauf einlassen kann erwartet einen eine Geschichte jenseits von klaren Genre Abgrenzungen. The act had taken place on Guy Fawkes Night when the horses from various places around town had been sedated so as not to be spooked by the fireworks and everyone in town was at the pyre.

After a daring raid on a Las Vegas jeweller – an absolute showstopper of a prologue – career criminal Alex Cassidy decides to retire. The beginning was rather promising, and I enjoyed the contemplations on society’s view on animal abuse and how little are these acts punished by law. Deze twee tegenpolen ontwikkelen een vreemd soort relatie waarbij ze de zaak op verschillende manieren benaderen. Though the plot of the story may seem to be about solving the crime of 16 mutilated horses, each chapter, with a few sentences about the investigation, immediately digresses into an in-depth dissection, either prominently or peripherally, of the various characters’ lives and mental processes.A total of 118 people were arrested amid the chaotic scenes, with animal rights activists breaking onto the course and attempting to prevent the race taking place. In the village of Ilmarsh, 16-year-old Rachel Cole discovers a gruesome sight while walking her dog in one of her family’s meadows. Set in the English seaside town of IImarsh, a town that is well past its sell by date and falling apart(as much the star of this book as the characters),when a farmer and his daughter discover the heads of sixteen horses buried in a circle on their land one early morning, Alec, the local detective goes out to investigate. Ogólnie ciężko było się od tego oderwać i czasami ma taki lekki vibe horroru, ale kurde, jest jest ogromne ale.

This debut literary thriller is quite simply something special; what drew me to Greg's writing and kept me riveted is the extraordinary way he evokes atmosphere - of a lost place, a community left behind - I became immersed in the surroundings almost instantly. This is a novel that I cannot in all honesty say I enjoyed, it was just too dark for me at times, with its abuse of animals and vets facing the eternal conundrum in their profession, how to save the animals from their owners, given animals have no rights.

When I read the synopsis for Sixteen Horses I was not sure that I could read it - animal violence is something that I find hard to stomach. The ensuing investigation and slow burn mystery is stunning in its complexity and beautifully achieved. In this character driven and haunted story, there is the historical 1942 Gunard Island incineration of sheep, a government that tested weapons against sheep without cleaning up after themselves. The descriptive sense of a small town declining fast is truly melancholic, against this backdrop a girl wakes up and stumbles across a truly horrific scene.

Autor Greg Buchanan hat hier einen ganz besonderen Roman erschaffen, der für mich jenseits der Grenzen eines normalen Krimis liegt. A literary thriller from a stunning new talent, Sixteen Horses is about enduring guilt, trauma and punishment, set in a small seaside community the rest of the world has left behind. This is crime writing of a striking calibre, which constantly surprises as it takes unexpected twist after twist — leaving you desperate for more.A literary thriller from a stunning new talent,Sixteen Horsesis about enduring guilt, trauma and punishment, set in a small seaside community the rest of the world has left behind. Mega zaskoczył mnie ten konsultant, bo tutaj jest nim patolog weterynaryjny, a z czymś takim się jeszcze nie spotkałam.

Greg’s writing style feels very poetic and lyrical, keeping pace on each page and maintaining intrigue. An inventive narrative structure coupled with characters I believed in and a plot which made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end make this a book which is a cut above.Jeder scheint hier verdächtig zu sein, niemand sich zu Zeugenaussagen durchringen zu können und am sonderbarsten wirken die psychisch angeschlagenen Ermittler selbst mit ihren dunklen Seiten. ILMARSH is a long-forgotten pleasure town, a place left to its own decay, devoid of anything new or exciting, a ghost town where every single thing is just waiting to fade into oblivion. Corruption, self-interest and the considerable gap between law and justice rear their heads in Ajay Chowdhury’s debut novel.