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The Blurb On The Back:
Louise Boní, maverick chief inspector with the Black Forest crime squad, is struggling with her demons. Divorced at forty-two, she is haunted by the ghosts of her past.
Dreading yet another dreary winter weekend alone, she receives a call from the departmental chief which signals the strangest assignment of her career - to trail a Japanese monk as he wanders through the snowy landscape to the east of Freiburg dressed only in sandals and a cowl. She sets off reluctantly, and when she catches up with him, she finds that he is injured, fleeing some unknown evil - an evil so insidious that Louise Boní may never be free of its shadow.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Oliver Bottini’s crime novel (the first in a series and translated from German by Jamie Bulloch), is a cliche-riddled, plodding affair revolving around a self-pitying alcoholic who isn’t good at her job. Too many questions are left unanswered at the end (including what happened to the monk), the “chemistry” between Boní and Landen is non-existent and characters are essentially stereotypes, some of which border on racist. Not a series for me.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
Louise Boní, maverick chief inspector with the Black Forest crime squad, is struggling with her demons. Divorced at forty-two, she is haunted by the ghosts of her past.
Dreading yet another dreary winter weekend alone, she receives a call from the departmental chief which signals the strangest assignment of her career - to trail a Japanese monk as he wanders through the snowy landscape to the east of Freiburg dressed only in sandals and a cowl. She sets off reluctantly, and when she catches up with him, she finds that he is injured, fleeing some unknown evil - an evil so insidious that Louise Boní may never be free of its shadow.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Oliver Bottini’s crime novel (the first in a series and translated from German by Jamie Bulloch), is a cliche-riddled, plodding affair revolving around a self-pitying alcoholic who isn’t good at her job. Too many questions are left unanswered at the end (including what happened to the monk), the “chemistry” between Boní and Landen is non-existent and characters are essentially stereotypes, some of which border on racist. Not a series for me.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
