The Vanished (A Konrad Simonsen Thriller) By Lotte Hammer Hardcover 1632864851 9781632864857 Mystery The Vanished (A Konrad Simonsen Thriller) Lying at the bottom of his apartment stairs, a postman is found dead. At first glance, his death appears to be a simple fall, a straightforward accident and the perfect case for Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen to return to after a severe heart attack. But when he is called to investigate, new forensic evidence comes to light and something doesnt add up. Did the postman fall or was he pushed? When life size images of a girl are discovered plastering the walls of the dead mans attic, the case takes a new and sinister turn. Who is she? Could she be alive? Soon the homicide team find themselves delving into the past, but as they approach the truth, Simonsen discovers long hidden skeletons in his own closet.
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Questo romanzo l ho comprato anni fa Perch non mi era dispiaciuto il primo romanzo della trilogia con protagonista Konrad Simonsen quindi avevo acquistato anche gli altri due della serie per completare la vicenda Peccato che il secondo romanzo fosse di una noia mortale penso di averci messo un mese e mezzo a leggerlo sforzandomi ovvero per me un secolo e pure strano essendo un noir che di solito dovrebbero agganciare il lettore talmente tanto da trascinarli alla svelta verso la fine. The vanished birds Cos non stato Vero il giallo non ha un ritmo velocissimo anzi Per almeno gran parte di esso un cold case bisogna risolvere l omicidio di una ragazza inglese morta a fine anni 60 Il che da un certo punto di vista giustifica le indagini compassate non essendo un caso che richiede una risoluzione immediata pure i danesi sono molto latini quando ci si mettono in fondo 5 6 mesi in pi o in meno quando hai aspettato 30 anni. The vanished korean book cast Dunque per tornare alla velocit della trama meno veloce del primo che resta il migliore della serie ma molto pi veloce del secondo che stata una tortura so di essere tremenda ma davvero non mi ha preso Questo lento ma un lento accettabile a tratti. The vanished murderer netflix I lati deboli della trama semmai sono altri Ci sono una serie di storie che vengono accennate e sviluppate per qualche pagina poi trovano una risoluzione veloce 70 pagine dopo Ci sono dei personaggi che se non si sono letti i due volumi precedenti diventano difficili da inquadrare e sopportare C un commissario che diventa un po insopportabile e va bene che reduce da un infarto e a riposo forzato ma pi malmostoso di cos in certi capitoli non si pu Ci sono una serie di colpi di scena che non riescono a sorprendere un continuo richiamo a certi personaggi della passata politica danese che rendono lo scenario un po troppo specifico magari ci starei stata dietro meglio se si fossero fatte note a pi di pagina o finali In generale un noir serio e sufficiente ma non del tutto entusiasmante per un cultore del genere 9781632864857 In the third novel in their Konrad Simonsen series S ren and Lotte Hammer offer the reader a deeper look at the protagonist while he delves into a crime that spans decades Having recently returned from a heart attack Simonsen is no longer in charge of the Criminal Division or the team he guided for years Instead he is directed to look into a potential crime scene involving a postal worker who was found at the bottom of the outside stairs on the second floor of his home What was originally deemed and accidental fall has Simonsen questioning the determination of the police and forensic authorities As he looks into the man s past Simonsen discovers clues to a missing girl from the late 1960s who left Liverpool and made her way into Denmark With little on which to go Simonsen and his team begin exploring the possibilities which reveals a Group of Six students attending school together calling themselves the Lonely Hearts Could these six have played some role in the disappearance and potential murder of the English girl Subsequently could someone have broken a pact and killed the one member whose guilt became too much As the case progresses living in the age of Flower Power than current criminal activity Simonsen has flashbacks to the life he lived in the same era and a love interest whose dealings with the law plagued him for a long time As he tries to wrestle with that series of feelings and events Simonsen must look the present to determine if a handful of fifty somethings came recollect meeting a girl one summer and what might have happened that pushed them over the edge turning Lonely Hearts into cold blooded killers An interesting crime thriller allows the Hammer siblings to spin a tale that has criminal elements and much backstory for the protagonist through to the final page. Kindle The vanished manistee While I am no expert on Scandinavian crime thrillers or literature in general I have a handful of authors from the region with which I am familiar and can compare their works to that of S ren and Lotte Hammer I find the Hammers work to be much dense and harder to digest though there could be something about the translation from the Danish that impedes the flow of the story That said with much longer chapters and a tendency to push into the minute details and expand on them the novel can from time to time move into the realm of overdone and somewhat too much for the intended purpose I know I have mentioned in past reviews of the authors that it seems they take longer to get back to the point and tie up loose ends the the premises of their novels is strong and the characters are well developed Simonsen does have some parallels to those detectives from the aforementioned other Scandinavian thrillers though this novel ties him up on so many personal levels that it is harder for the reader to leave feeling a sense of a strong connection to the man but rather a sense that the past and present are overloaded and leave everyone feeling a tad raw The Hammer siblings are wonderful storytellers though their delivery could for some readers cause a less than celebratory mood as one wades through the text in search for a powerful mystery. The vanishing pearls mystery Kudos Hammer siblings for the strong foundation While one might call it something lost in translation I cannot help but feel it is a case of too much in a single book I cannot wait to get my hands on the three novels that have yet to make it into English. The vanished netflix Like hate the review An ever growing collection of others appears at 9781632864857 A well written intelligent Nordic whodunnit Interweaves several plot lines and does so with style Characterisation somewhat cliched and book overlong Would read these authors again 9781632864857 Dette er 3 bind i serien om Drabsafdeling p K benhavns politig rd. The vanished netflix cast Jeg kastede mig over denne da jeg var meget begejstret for efterf lgeren Pigen i Santans Mose Men for filan de kan slet ikke m les Sproget er flydende dialogerne som hovedregel gode men der er en del gentagelser og megen overfl dig snak som tr der vande og blot bidrager til at fylde romanen. The vanished documentary Kategorien er krimi men der er stort set intet krimi i denne roman til geng ld er den fyldt med gode hjertevarme tilbagesyn og de tr kker trods alt op Selv om den som helhed fejler f lt som krimi. The vanished book korean Jeg giver 2 hjerter for en hyggelig roman med ganske f glimt af krimi den holder meget mere end den lover og er fuldkommen fejlplaceret i krimigenren Men selve historien er hyggelig og glider nemt ned Jeg burde nok kun give et hjerte men runder op til to 9781632864857 Well all I can say is what a snoreie zzzzzzzzz slow yawning enjoyed the first few pages then slowed right down is it the translation don t know but at least gave it a go and was free from the library 9781632864857
Lying at the bottom of his apartment stairs a postman is found dead At first glance his death appears to be a simple fall a straightforward accident and the perfect case for Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen to return to after a severe heart attack But when he is called to investigate new forensic evidence comes to light and something doesn t add up Did the postman fall or was he pushed When life size images of a girl are discovered plastering the walls of the dead man s attic the case takes a new and sinister turn Who is she Could she be alive Soon the homicide team find themselves delving into the past but as they approach the truth Simonsen discovers long hidden skeletons in his own closet The Vanished A Konrad Simonsen Thriller I can t decide whether the slightly uneven way the book progresses is due to its having two authors or not It is a bit slow in places althou th I rather like all the incidental detail The story is a bit strange the team now not led by Konrad Simonsen who is recuperating from a heart attack and has just returned investigates what was originally thought to be an accidental death Enquiries reveal a hidden loft with a series of pictures of a girl who disappeared in 1969 and that case toois investigated by the team Both are eventually solved with Konrad also reliving some of his own past and discoverong what happened to his girlfriend from the time and clearing his conscience about something he did The opening however is a description of a school shooting which produces a connection to the accidental death and some thoughts about where social exclusion might lead people but also contributes for me at least to the feeling of unevenness as this dramatic event is lost sight of and only remembered later on for purposes of drawing a moral In fact there is quite a lot of reflective moralising the episode in which the fifty somethings are made to dig up the skeleton is strange but presumably meant to be some sort of restitution Not entirely comfortable with the psychic woman consultant either Not a bad book though 9781632864857 This is the third book in the Konrad Simonsen series by Danish brother sister writing team Lotte and Soren Hammer I enjoyed the first The Hanging reviewed in this space I missed the second The Girl in the Ice but I will seek it out.
The vanished murderer As noted in my first review I am wary of writing teams but the Hammers helped me overcome this with a combined voice I found to be dry but also very funny at the most surprising junctures In The Vanished the humorous element is replaced by a musing philosophical voice This shift reflects an ageing almost retired head of the homicide team recently felled by a heart attack from stress and careless living Detective Superintendent Konrad Simonsen is trying to slowly ease back into his role as the story opens.
The missing book 2 Instead of getting straight back into a serious murder investigation Simonsen s second in command Arne Pedersen who has been acting as Super assigns him the mostly bureaucratic task of collecting and confirming the details of an apparent accidental death a broken neck caused by a fall down some stairs The victim is a postman who turns out to have been a complete loner And who converted to the Catholic church More in depth forensics lead Simonsen to believe there may have been foul play And a deeper look into that possibility brings to light the possibility that the dead postman was also involved in a very disturbing incident.
The vanished korean book cast Simonsen ends up chasing the ghost of a long missing British girl who was traveling in Denmark in the late 60 s the era of free love drugs and social alienation etc Also time of much personal upheaval for a now senior cop.
The vanished book korean Despite fragile health Konrad Simonsen remains an irascible deeply intuitive cop who has trouble communicating the most important things to those trying to help him He is surrounded by interesting supporting characters First among them is the Countess a senior detective who happens to come from Denmark s nobility She and Simon are now in the first stages of living together though they both hold to their own ground professionally The young and volatile and now PTSD damaged Inspector Pauline Berg adds emotional frisson The unnamed Deputy Commissioner brings matronly charm and gentle humor What happened to Inspector Poul Trouson source of the mordant humor I so much enjoyed in The Hanging Another reason to read the second book in this series But the dynamic informing this investigation is completely different from the first book and therefore so is the tone of the story To the authors credit Some crime writers tend to repeat themselves At the heart of it and what makes this crime novel fascinating is Simonsen s ongoing dialogue with the priest who was the dead postman s confessor There are not so many Catholics in Denmark our cop is not sure how to approach a priest The priest is smart Polite and engaging though he may be he knows how to use the Church s shield of immunity in guarding the postman s most intimate revelations and yet provide a perceptive cop with useful information.
The vanished rider 4 stars I wish the dark funny element was still at play But in The Vanished the Hammers go to a different deeper societal place Well worth the slower contemplative pace 9781632864857 Je suis rarement d ue par mes lectures mais avec ce livre je ne peux utiliser d autre terme pour d finir ce que je ressens en le terminant J ai le sentiment d avoir t tromp e par la quatri me de couverture et le premier chapitre qui laissaient pr sager une histoire palpitante et int ressante En r alit la succession d v nements est plut t ennuyeuse avec des passages semblants crits pour remplir les pages Aucun personnage ne m a touch e pas m me le personnage principal je ne me suis attach e aucun d eux ce qui rend difficile de s int resser leur sort et aventures Le personnage de Simon et le personnage de Pauline sont particuli rement antipathiques D autres personnages tout comme l intrigue secondaire de ce roman avec Rita notamment sont superflus Pour finir l histoire part dans tous les sens apr s quelques chapitres pourtant assez satisfaisant mais l encha nement des d couvertes et l enqu te en elle m me me para t tir e par les cheveux et la fin ne rend pas hommage un tel pav 9781632864857 Inint ressant part la d couverte de personnages qui me semblent tr s danois C est le seul point positif Et se promener un peu dans Copenhague Le livre avavit bien commenc puis il a totalement bifurqu dans trop de directions Je ne l ai m me pas fini ce qui en dit long 9781632864857 Loved this book even though I had never read any other book in the series Maybe because it is a Danish to English translation reading it has the same feel and quality as the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series Very good read 9781632864857 Lotte Hammer born 1955 finished her training as a nurse in 1977 She has since worked and lived many places such as Greece Germany the North Sea s oil rigs and the American air force bases in Greenland From 1995 to 2010 she was head of the Public Eldercare in Halsnaes Denmark From 2006 to 2010 she was actively involved in local politics and has been writing full time since 2010,
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The vanishing pearls mystery Can Simonsen hear rightly The crux of this investigation is in the space between the cop and the priest And it s done perfectly,
The vanished series books 1 3 The crime writing siblings Lotte Hammer and S ren Hammer published their first novel Svinehunde The Beast Within in March 2010.
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