THE WHISPERER BY DONATO CARRISI, ABACUS, $32.99.
The Whisperer, written by a newly discovered Italian writer, spent a year on Italy’s best-seller lists.
Dishevelled criminologist Goran Gavila and young policewoman Mila Vasquez are on the hunt for a child abductor. When six small severed arms are found buried in a forest, the search becomes frantic. Gavila’s team follows the clues into a dark world – and more than one of them is in deeper than first appears.
The plot is clever, perhaps tighter than Stieg Larsson’s novels, but the characters are not as sympathetic. A better comparison would be Val McDermid’s Tony Hill books. If you like your killers prolific and your detectives a little twisted, you’ll enjoy this.
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