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Title: Messiah by Boris Starling ISBN: 0451409000 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: September, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.52
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best thrillers I've read-ever! :)
Comment: Wow-whatta book! I didnt know exactly what to expect from this book....never read anything from the writer before so I was a bit wary. The first chapter easily took away any doubts that I wouldnt enjoy this book. A well-written and fast-paced book-good luck trying to put the book down and heading to bed! ;) There are some prerequisite ploit twists and turns....but very good and effective ones at least! I was most impressed by the authors effectiveness when it camr to the killer and all of his specificies......I was truly impressed at how intelligent and intruiging the crimes were and even more so when you find out just what the killers pattern is. Overall, this is one of the best books I've read all year, and definitely the best thriller! :O)
Rating: 4
Summary: Thriller with an unexpected twist
Comment: I read this book during two rainy summer nights ... and I liked it a lot. The author investigates the minds of one serial killer, and one detective. There are other characters too, of course, but these two characters are the ones really worth studying. Red Metcalfe at Scotland Yard is hunting a very skilfull serial killer, who does not leave any traces behind. It seems hopeless, but he and his team eventually manages (with a little help from the killer himself) to figure out the pattern. The problem is only that now that they know, they feel even more helpless. More people may be killed anyway.
Starling lets us follow the thoughts of both Red Metcalfe and the serial killer ... which is both very interesting and thought-provoking. I would say that this is a very well made study of man's mind in general - only most of us are neither serial killers nor detectives. Still, Starling has much to teach us about the darker side of humanity, the side that most of us successfully suppress. Aside from the psychological part, this book is a real page turner and actually a very quick read although it is almost 500 pages long. It is very hard not to read just another chapter ...
The end actually surprised me, and I am not easily surprised. I have read lots of detective stories (although this is more of a thriller than a detective story) and it is seldom one gets really surprised. I have never seen an end constructed like this one, and I would say that it is as inventive as the end of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
Rating: 5
Summary: The most "in-your-face" murder book I've read!
Comment: There's nothing restrained about Messiah, a book awash with blood, mutilation, family conflicts and over the top religious symbolism.
Despite often patchy writing and some one-dimensional stereotyped secondary characters, Messiah manages to stay a class above the many other wannabe serial murder thrillers. Many other books also offer a twist at the end that supposedly, "you'll never guess". In Messiah, a couple of times you think you spot it, but you really WON'T guess this one. Many books contrive human failings for their detective heroes to make them more realistic, but you'd never predict the true nature of Red Metcalfe, the complex and tortured main character of Messiah.
Read it, murder fans! DON'T flip to the last pages first! And if you enjoy this book, then don't miss Val McDermid's "The Mermaids Singing", it's like this but even better, I promise...
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Title: Storm by Boris Starling ISBN: 0451201906 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 07 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Stealing Faces by Michael Prescott ISBN: 0451198514 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Murder Channel by John Philpin ISBN: 0553580094 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Last Breath by Michael Prescott ISBN: 0451205073 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 05 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Dreams in the Key of Blue by John Philpin ISBN: 055358006X Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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