J.A. Kerley - The Broken Souls

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Beschrijving

The Broken Souls is the the third Carson Ryder novel. Ryder is a homicide detective in the deep south, based in Mobile, Alabama. He and his partner, the rather strangely named Harry Nautilus, also have a specialism in cases involving psychopaths, serial murderers etc.  
 
In this book, the pair are tracking the murderer of a young journalist, who has been appallingly brutalised. With more deaths, the case leads to the Kincannon family, one of the region's richest, yet most uncouth, moneyed clans.  
 
The book cracks along at a fair pace, but, I've got to be honest here, I didn't understand a lot of it come the end. The family appeared to have so many madmen (and women) stashed away that I lost track of who was who. It was, I suppose, a bit Gothic having a family apparently cursed by mental illness, but not much was made of that.  
 
I thought the author 'cheated' a bit too, slipping into third person narrative when first person was no longer possible (the hero was unconscious) and in the early stages, without giving too much away, there are passages that appear to have one 'suspect' carrying out the killings, which aren't as they seem.  
 
Having said that I liked the pace of the thing, I liked the setting - makes a change from Maine and LA, I liked the fact that Ryder had real problems with his girlfriend which hinted that he was quite as invulnerable as these guys usually are and I liked the fact that the identity of one of the baddies took me completely by surprise, but was not a cheat. Once revealed, it made sense.  
 
Harper (2010), 550 blz. 
Grote paperback afm. 20 x 13 x 4 cm. 
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