Sixteen Horses

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Evocative, intelligent and haunting, crime and thriller fans will love Sixteen Horses. For those who loved The Dry and Scrublands. The genre skews towards gothic, and readership skews 20+

Autor Greg Buchanan hat hier einen ganz besonderen Roman erschaffen, der für mich jenseits der Grenzen eines normalen Krimis liegt. Die Handlung ist weder gradlinig noch leicht nachvollziehbar und bietet viel mehr als einen einfach Kriminalfall.Het verhaal las voor mij heel verwarrend. De tijdsprongen en de wisselende perspectieven maken het er niet duidelijker op. De schrijver maakt geen woorden vuil aan mooie volzinnen en ingewikkeld taalgebruik. Ik ga ervan uit dat hij zijn lezers wil schokken. People thought fiction was the problem-that films, television, games, comics would all desensitize the world to violence and horror. Real things were far harder to care about.” The town of Iimarsh England is well described and you feel the hopelessness in the book; how everything is dying and people moving away and places just empty. The setting is perfect for the dark story. Investigation reveals a large number of pets have also disappeared. “A number of dead birds were discovered in the night. We found copies of a letter in their beaks. Folded down their throats, wrapped in plastic.”

Near the dying English seaside town of Ilmarsh, local police detective Alec Nichols discovers sixteen horses’ heads on a farm, each buried with a single eye facing the low winter sun. After forensic veterinarian Cooper Allen travels to the scene, the investigators soon uncover evidence of a chain of crimes in the community – disappearances, arson and mutilations – all culminating in the reveal of something deadly lurking in the ground itself. Authors, if you are a member of the Goodreads Author Program, you can edit information about your own books. Find out how in this guide. Sixteen Horses is a powerful story encased in an even more powerful narration, in which love and cruelty rise, intermingle, and become the same, but by doing so, mostly overwhelms the essentials of the plot. Or the film Se7en. Remember that? The atmosphere of that film. Every outdoor shot it was raining, every indoor shot lowly lit, that is this book. That same feeling.Dark, visceral and disturbing, this highly suspenseful and beautifully written thriller is totally gripping from start to finish. A hugely impressive debut.” —Alex Michaelides, author of The Silent Patient and The Maidens No one can accept fatalities as a certainty at any race and no one, least of all anyone in racing, wants to see what we witnessed in Saturday’s National.” Animal Rising claim their actions aimed to prevent deaths

Alle personages in het dorp hebben zo hun geheimen. In het echt weet je ook niet altijd wat er achter iemands voordeur gebeurt, maar hier wordt alles uitvergroot en benadrukt.Seagulls swooped from roof to roof. Middle-aged couples sat on benches, mostly silent. The air smelt of dust, salt, skin, tobacco.” A total of 118 people were arrested amid the chaotic scenes, with animal rights activists breaking onto the course and attempting to prevent the race taking place. In the dying seaside town of Ilmarsh, the heads of sixteen horses are found buried in circles, with only their eye exposed to the light of the low winter sun. The local police call upon forensic veterinarian Cooper Allan to assist with this uniquely disturbing case. cooper is just an forensics person who specializes in animal scenes so why does ada pressure her to solve the case Greg Buchanan writes with an edgy, unnerving style, a seen from the corner of your eye feel to the story unfolding which is both haunting and incredibly powerful. There is no path of least resistance to this book, it creeps up in you in ways I can’t describe and in the end, when all is said and done, the almost dreamlike feel to the read will linger with you.