Title: Five
My Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Book Description:
EVERY CORPSE IS A CLUE
N47° 46.605 E013° 21.718. A dismembered hand
N47° 48.022 E013° 10.910 Two severed ears
N47° 26.195 E013° 12.523 A mutilated corpse
A woman is found murdered. Tattooed on her feet is a strange combination of numbers and letters.
Map co-ordinates. The start of a sinister treasure hunt by a twisted killer.
Detective Beatrice Kaspary must risk all she has to uncover the killer in a terrifying game of cat-and-mouse.
N47° 46.605 E013° 21.718. A dismembered hand
N47° 48.022 E013° 10.910 Two severed ears
N47° 26.195 E013° 12.523 A mutilated corpse
A woman is found murdered. Tattooed on her feet is a strange combination of numbers and letters.
Map co-ordinates. The start of a sinister treasure hunt by a twisted killer.
Detective Beatrice Kaspary must risk all she has to uncover the killer in a terrifying game of cat-and-mouse.
My musings:
Have you ever heard of geocaching? Or even done it yourself?
It sounds like fun, doesn’t it – a sort of GPS treasure hunt for hidden caches
all around the world. It was certainly on my horizon as something that I’d like
to do, but I am not so sure now after reading Poznanski’s dark and disturbing
thriller, where a crazed killer sends the police on a gruesome geocache hunt
....
If you love police procedurals with a very different theme,
then this should definitely be on your radar! Detectives Beatrice Kaspary and
Florin Wenninger have their work cut out for them when they are asked to solve
the murder of a young woman found in a cow paddock with GPS coordinates tattooed
on her feet. When they follow the killer’s directions, they discover their
first ever geocache – containing body parts of another murder victim, whose
blood has been detected on the young woman’s clothes. The deeper Beatrice and
Florin look into the geochaching community, the more convinced they become that
the killer is either part of it, or has a huge grudge against it – or both!
It is getting harder and harder to find thrillers with an
original premise, but Poznanski certainly delivers that! Those readers who love
working out clues and following leads will also get their wish, as Bea and
Florin have their work cut out to decipher the killer’s cryptic instructions to
find the next cache – in the hope of catching him before another person dies.
This is a dark and disturbing book with a mounting body count, which belies its
idyllic location in beautiful Salzburg. I recently visited the city with a
friend and could vividly picturing the locations described, which made for
great armchair travel, though I was very happy to be sitting on the other side
of the world as this one played out!
I really loved Beatrice as a main protagonist, which will
make me seek out other books in the series. Due to the constant demands of
police work, Bea’s marriage has fallen apart and she has recently separated
from her husband. With the gruesome murder case taking up all her time, it is
getting increasingly difficult to juggle motherhood and work, and Bea is
constantly feeling torn between wanting to be with her young kids and feeling
under pressure from her boss to work
longer and longer hours. Her ex-husband, who is still angry at her, makes
matters worse by constantly guilt-tripping her into believing she is a bad
mother, which is taking its toll. Enigmatic and smart, Bea is the perfect
protagonist representing working mothers everywhere, and Poznanski does a great
job in portraying her struggle to be a good mother and fulfill the demands of
her career at the same time.
Summary:
Austria has really come through for me lately with some
great Scandi-noir type books that have given me all the dark and disturbing
elements I love in a thriller. This clever police procedural will appeal to all
lovers of multi-layered and somewhat unsettling stories that will keep you at
the edge of your seat until the thrilling finale. Highly recommended for anyone
looking for an original premise and an overall great read.
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