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Carregando... The Soul of Discretionde Susan Hill
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I love this series, but I did not love this book. I guess the subject matter bothered me. I did like the stories surrounding the main character. Has a bit of a surprise ending. ( ) This is No. 8 in the Simon Serrailller series. As I realized what Hill was getting our man Simon into this time, I had some serious doubts that she knew what she was doing---that either she or Simon could pull it off. I hoped she wasn't going to disappoint me by setting up a scenario that I couldn't buy; I really should have known better. Serrailler is recruited to go undercover in a maximum security rehabilitation facility, known as a "therapeutic community", where inmates convicted of sexual crimes are offered an opportunity to address their impulses and possibly learn to overcome or control them, in a more respectful and trusting environment than they are accustomed to in regular prisons. Admission is only upon request, and only after a strenuous vetting process. Simon's job is to get close to one of those inmates, a man who has steadfastly refused to provide any information whatsoever about other members of a large ring of child pornographers and abusers. Aside from the team of detectives assigned to this particular undertaking, only the governor of the facility was to be aware of Simon's true identity and purpose. How in the world could he pull this off...convincing not only the perpetrators of such hideous crimes, but the group therapists involved in their rehabilitation, that he was guilty of similar horrors. I should have trusted Hill to handle this without forcing a total suspension of disbelief on the part of the reader. Nevertheless, the ending of this one---one of her darkest and most difficult---still has me hoping she knows what she's doing. Review written October 2015 I picked this up in an airport bookshop, not realizing it was the eighth instalment. I think I might have read the first three or four years ago. Anyway... Simon goes undercover in a progressive prison for paedophiles to try to and out more about a particular internet ring/interest group. His father rapes a woman and his sister agonizes about her future (especially enjoyed re private GP services: the rich deserve good medical care too - just like they deserve good schools). I found the switching between the various strands a relief because sometimes Simon's in particular would get a bit dark. A few things puzzled me: [ Would Will really have trusted Johnno so readily? What exactly did Simon do, which led to so many arrests? Was it just giving Morson's name? If Will had protected his associates so well, why had Morson not done so? (hide spoiler)] Now I am going to go back and read the sixth and seventh instalments!
This is Susan Hill at her brooding best, with a sinister mystery in which her most sordid villains seem to claw their way out of a cesspool of cruelty and snuff killings. Like Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey, Serrailler went to Balliol. Serrailler is a distinguished artist in his spare time, just as P.D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh is a distinguished poet in his.... The secret of Hill’s narrative skill is that she forces the reader to invest emotionally in her characters. And then she makes ghastly things happen to them, while allowing them to hope that they, and perhaps we, will be restored at last to the Garden of Eden. Pertence à sérieSimon Serrailler (8)
From the outside, the cathedral town of Lafferton seems idyllic, but in many ways it is just like any other place. It suffers from the same kinds of crime, is subject to the same pressures from a rapidly changing world, and has the same hopes and fears as any number of towns up and down the land. When Simon Serrailler is called in by Lafferton's new Chief Constable, Kieran Bright, he is met by two plainclothes officers, who ask him to take the principal role in a difficult, potentially dangerous undercover operation. He must leave town immediately, without telling anyone--not even his girlfriend Rachel, who has only just moved in with him. Meanwhile, Simon's sister Cat is facing difficult choices at work, as Lafferton's hospice closes its bedded units--and at home, as her daughter is presented with a glittering opportunity that they would have to struggle to afford. And all is not well with Simon and Cat's stepmother, Judith, either. To complete his special operation, Simon must inhabit the mind of the worst kind of criminal. This takes its toll on Simon and--as the investigation unfolds--also on the town and some of its most respected citizens. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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