Opfergabe

by Graeme Hague

This is a German language edition of A Clean Kill, which is available in English as an Ebook here on Goodreads

Genres: Thriller

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

I've been writing all kinds of books for many years, published in Australia, the UK, Germany and in the US. I started out writing horror, then crime thrillers and I've also written two historical war/romance novels. Nowadays I'm concentrating on my Lukas Boston series of detective novellas, which feature my sometimes rather black sense of humour which my friends have often told me to use in my books. The Lukas Boston books are proving great fun to create. I'm living with my beautiful wife in the south west of Western Australia along with three Great Danes and two donkeys.

Reviews

[C N · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall I quite liked the book and the characters, however I didn‘t completely buy the ending of it.

[Lutz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ich bin hin- und hergerissen. Das Buch war wirklich gut und auch gut zu lesen,auch wenn manchmal ein paar zuviel Personen aufgetaucht sind und ich manchmal nicht wusste, wer jetzt was ist.
Keine Angst - ich spoiler nicht - aber der Schluss hat mich enttäuscht, auch wenn - das will ich einräumen - das Geschmackssache ist.

[Leseratte · Rating 3 out of 5]

Das Buch hat für mich etwas schwierig angefangen. Erst nach ca. 80 Seiten hat es mich dann gepackt und war bis zum Ende spannend. Ich bewerte das Buch daher mit 3- 4 Sternen.

[Graeme Hague · Rating 5 out of 5]

Author’s Introduction: A Clean Kill was a first for me. The success of Missing Pieces had my fans in Germany asking for another John Maiden book–something I’d never planned for. So instead of writing a new book based on some unexpected, inspired idea, for the first time I had to go away and deliberately plot and create a story. Among all the concepts I considered there was one thing I was determined to do. I reckon that modern police methods and forensic science are killing off the whodunit crime novel. Sure, there are forensic science novels and TV shows like CSI, but if you want to write a traditional crime story it’s hard to ignore the role of forensics and surveillance techniques that should play in catching the killer. I think that I came up with the answer with The Sanctuary. It’s a place filled with creepy, nasty, unhappy and untrustworthy people who live so close together it’s impossible to separate scientific evidence. Oh, and there’s a killer inside with them, too.

[Micha Goebig · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining thriller.