Suspense

The Whisperers is the weakest book in the series that I have read. The writing is great but it is as though the author had a couple of different ideas and tried to string them together to make a whole book. It was very disjointed and to detailed when it came to parts of the book that didn’t matter.
Still worth reading if you like the series. Hopefully the next one will be better. ( )

En mayo de 2009, pocos meses después de su regreso de Iraq, el joven soldado Damien Patchett se suicida disparándose con un revólver durante un paseo. Su padre, Bennett Patchett, que sospecha que algo turbio se esconde tras la muerte, acude a ver al detective privado Charlie Parker para pedirle que lo investigue. Extrañamente, ese mismo día, un agente de policía ha aparecido muerto junto a las ruinas calcinadas del siniestro bar Bluen Moon. En sus pesquisas, Parker pronto descubrirá que Patchett formaba parte de un gran grupo de ex combatientes desencantados que cruzan a menudo la frontera entre Maine y Canadá, un lugar propicio para el tráfico no sólo de drogas, sino también de alcohol personas y dinero.

At once poetic and exciting, informative and well-constructed. My only complaint is that the novel is heavy on narration at the expense of the reader. Some paragraphs were hard to read although well written. 4.5 stars would be a better assessment. ( )

You can almost see the headline this was inspired by, the fact that looting happened in Iraq is a matter of fact, not conjecture, but the idea that one of the items was a demon box is interesting and different. I enjoyed this story. Charlie Parker is beginning to realise that his job as detective is more to fund his actions as a supernatural investigator and that he has a role in the world investigating those things that go bump in the night.

He has a specific set of skills that allow him to fight the things that prey on humanity and while sometimes humanity is a festering pile of poo, there are people who should be saved.

In this story Parker is drawn in to the missing items by a rash of suicides among some former Iraq combatants, disillusioned and disenfranchised they are dealing in some items that they found in their travels and now something has gone wrong.

It's an interesting read that I found hard to put down. ( )