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The Vanished Hands (Javier Falcon #2)
A suspicious suicide calls Javier Falcn must find the connection among the suicides. As his investigation deepens, so too does suspicion that perhaps these deaths aren't suicides after all, and the mystery takes a shocking, explosive turn.
Paperback, 372 pages
Published
January 2nd 2006
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I cannot believe that I am the 1st person on Goodreads to review this novel by Robert Wilson. Looking at the profile on the author he has written a good few books and his past reviews have shown him to be an excellent writer.
The Silent and the Damned is set in Selville, Spain. A favourite city of mine - so I immediately enjoyed the surrounding flavour RW gave to this crime novel.
The book is full of characters - some that you automaticaly empathise with, while others you long to have ...more
The Silent and the Damned is set in Selville, Spain. A favourite city of mine - so I immediately enjoyed the surrounding flavour RW gave to this crime novel.
The book is full of characters - some that you automaticaly empathise with, while others you long to have ...more
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Summertime. Seville, city of Spain. Temperatures can go above 40ºC. Chief inspector Javier Falcón has got two dead bodies inside a house: one in the kitchen, the male one, Rafael Vegas,who apparently committed suicide drinking a poisonous liquid,with a note paper in his hand (referring 9/11)... and, in a bedroom, the female wife,Lúcia Vegas,suffocated to death, by a pillow usage. The man is a rich, real-estate developer. He liked a lot his only four year old son and yet: did he kill his wife......more
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Inspector Jefe Javier Falcon series book 2
Mr Wilson has written another psychological charged novel giving us a look into the depth and aftermath of human suffering seen from the point of view of his protagonist.
The story is told through human interaction to crate a backdrop full of emotion. Inspector Javier returns to work after revelations that almost destroyed him (The Blind Man of Seville) to in...more
Inspector Jefe Javier Falcon series book 2
Mr Wilson has written another psychological charged novel giving us a look into the depth and aftermath of human suffering seen from the point of view of his protagonist.
The story is told through human interaction to crate a backdrop full of emotion. Inspector Javier returns to work after revelations that almost destroyed him (The Blind Man of Seville) to in...more
Wilson has been a delight to read, especially A Small Death, so I was surprised to find myself thinking about tossing this book in the first 100 pages or so. I almost never quit a book, but I was tempted. Dense sophisticated language and what appeared to be a locked room mystery with little plot is what almost killed it for me. I even passed on an opportunity to pick up the first title in this series while I was at that stage of the book. I didn't need a book that'd go near the bottom of the to-...more
I RARELY actually HATE a book that I read....I can usually find some redeeming qualities in anything I read, but not in this case! I have no problem finishing huge books in days but this smallish book took me weeks!
The author constantly referred back to what apparently was the first or at least the previous book in this series! BIG MISTAKE! You shouldn't assume anyone has read the previous books.
Also, the dialog in the book was choppy at best. The majority of the...more
The author constantly referred back to what apparently was the first or at least the previous book in this series! BIG MISTAKE! You shouldn't assume anyone has read the previous books.
Also, the dialog in the book was choppy at best. The majority of the...more
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Excellent police detective novel. Inspector Jefe Javier Falcon is an inuitive and capable investigator heading the murder squad in Seville, Spain. Wilson unmasks the human condition of his characters, not only strengths and weaknesses but also those bizarre thoughts and feelings that we all experience. Javier is tortured by a divorce from a woman he does not love and the death of his father, who Javier discovers was not really his father. Not your run-of-the-mill mystery novel. Read The Blin...more
I don't really know what I have to do with this book. It's well written, the story is great but even though I was wondering how it all would end, I didn't feel like I had to continue reading it. Could put it aside too easily to be a real good book but I'll give his other books definatly a try. I want to know more about what happened to Javier Falcon, his realtionship with his family etc...
Liked it better than his first I read. Wilson is not an easy read, but has good character development and is very exciting at tying up all the loose ends. When reading a WIlson novel, remember the first pages. They will undoubtedly tie in to the resolution, but in a way you wold not expect.
This second Javier Falcon novel ends up being merely an extension of the first one, and author Robert Wilson adds a few new (but uninteresting) characters here and there. No satisfactory punch at the end, lots of cliched, light development of established characters, and some frustrating loose ends. I got the impression through the amazon.com reader reviews that this second installment was the weakest of the three (?), but ... ouch. I'll take a break from Falcon before tackling the third.
An above average detective novel with the requisite widowed policeman and the sins of the past coming to cause damage in the future. Set in Portugal, however.
I liked the elegiac style and the way Wilson constructs this. i read another of Wilson's books, but didn't like it nearly as much.
I liked the elegiac style and the way Wilson constructs this. i read another of Wilson's books, but didn't like it nearly as much.
Make sure you read this series in order as I think I would have enjoyed this more had I not read The Hidden Assassins before this by mistake.
I really enjoyed these books which are set in Spain. There are a few of them and if you can read them in sequence the better.
I liked this book, it gave some insite into life in Seville. I felt the mystery part was a little slow moving.
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One of my favorite novels of all time. Great political commentary.
Excellent. He is such a good writer and story-teller. Good characters. And there is always an interesting part of history woven into the story. This time it's the putsch of Allende in Chile 9/11/1973.
Um livro perturbador!
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