from the Ministry of Interior established reforms, cuts in personnel and finances, all that makes the Vienna Police Major Schaefer's life miserable. How can he identify with his crew decent, if he always bricks and mortar is placed in the way? When it comes to the Chief of Police, all instances where not see at first glance, outside influence is to be banned as similar as possible to the completed document.
The two women drowned, that Schaefer must deal, first you have the impression that she had died in an accident. But Shepherd has since such a feeling as if everything behind it. And there are still the corpse of a junkie, which was found in the woods. Is there such a connection between the dead, they have fallen even all about a serial killer victim? The busy Schaefer, who fight all the way to even with depression. After all, he only from the sick leave come back and still in with a therapist treatment. The dreary November, the situation not just better. The more
Shepherd investigates, the more certain he is dealing here with a whole series of murders have to, which finds its origin in a card game. He throws himself into the work, but from the top of it not getting the needed support, his findings are dismissed as spinners.
With Schäfer Georg Haden for his detective created an idiosyncratic yet sympathetic protagonist. The police major is in its interior are not so callous as it would require the job maybe, and just his mental problems that appear to stem from the work of past cases, shepherds do so human and believable.
The atmosphere described in the Vienna homicide is partly marked by collegiality and mutual understanding among the staff, where there are already good-times intense teasing and ridiculing, but it lacks the support needed by the competent authority. The many cuts and restrictions are not very motivating. Shepherd must go his own way and almost without noticing bother with useless measures. It is not always determined strictly according to regulation, is sometimes quite eccentric in his approach. But ultimately the result counts, and his success rate speaks for itself.
remarkable to find a stylistic device that has used the author in Chapter 17. This section consists entirely of rows of dialogs that appear random at first sight, but make total sense and carry the plot forward. The story is enlivened by a witty and interesting way. Even a Fox Terrier comes to word ;-)
some critics, the novel would be different from the criminal act and would thus have lengths could not agree with me. this passage I found very entertaining and good, for a major crime has a life outside of his service in a family and private interests, and I personally like to know a little more about the people shepherd, his attitude and his feelings. Exciting it was still well enough. Especially the last hundred pages, I read nonstop, could not stop anymore. There is already a predecessor novel, and as far as I know already is the third novel in the works with Major Shepherd. I am definitely on a reunion with Schaefer and the team.
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