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zooloo1983's review
4.0
Wow, I just want to talk about the beginning of the book! I had no idea where it was going or who the first patient would be and bam! The author just throws a curve ball straight off the bat! Jaw dropped!!!
This is book four in the series of Silas Quinn, but you are fine as you don’t have to read the others to read this. It reads perfectly as a stand-alone novel.
Silas is a famed detective, but he feels like he has not done anything to deserve the praise. He lets his two sergeants do the thinking and then decides one of their ideas to solve cases.
They are in a bit of a lull when Inchball comes across a new story where a man has decided to strip all his clothes off and jump into a bear enclosure...well you can guess what happen! Silas and Macadam write it off as nothing to investigate. Then a man jumps off a bridge, known as Suicide bridge, again getting naked and jumping! Now their interest is peaked, what is going on..and now they begin to delve into the history but not before there is a third (near) victim...and this time its someone that one of them knows.
This is not a book for the faint-hearted that is for sure. It is at times such a dark foreboding read. Some of the descriptive words that the author uses are so detailed I found myself cringing so much that I could see the scenes and smell the smells. Not always a good thing I am telling you!! Especially when we spend time in Coney Hatch asylum...
It was interesting to read about life pre-war, being set in 1914. Simple throwaway comments like hearses being cars instead of horse-drawn carriages, ‘because it is all the rage now,’ seem crazy but back then it was not.
Silas is a complex and maybe even slightly crazy character. You are following him into a tunnel of discovery, especially when you learn some of his history at the beginning wondering where it will fit in, in the present.
Always wondering can he be trusted.....
This is book four in the series of Silas Quinn, but you are fine as you don’t have to read the others to read this. It reads perfectly as a stand-alone novel.
Silas is a famed detective, but he feels like he has not done anything to deserve the praise. He lets his two sergeants do the thinking and then decides one of their ideas to solve cases.
They are in a bit of a lull when Inchball comes across a new story where a man has decided to strip all his clothes off and jump into a bear enclosure...well you can guess what happen! Silas and Macadam write it off as nothing to investigate. Then a man jumps off a bridge, known as Suicide bridge, again getting naked and jumping! Now their interest is peaked, what is going on..and now they begin to delve into the history but not before there is a third (near) victim...and this time its someone that one of them knows.
This is not a book for the faint-hearted that is for sure. It is at times such a dark foreboding read. Some of the descriptive words that the author uses are so detailed I found myself cringing so much that I could see the scenes and smell the smells. Not always a good thing I am telling you!! Especially when we spend time in Coney Hatch asylum...
It was interesting to read about life pre-war, being set in 1914. Simple throwaway comments like hearses being cars instead of horse-drawn carriages, ‘because it is all the rage now,’ seem crazy but back then it was not.
Silas is a complex and maybe even slightly crazy character. You are following him into a tunnel of discovery, especially when you learn some of his history at the beginning wondering where it will fit in, in the present.
Always wondering can he be trusted.....
jessbookishlife's review
5.0
This is the first book I read in the Silas Quinn series. Before I started reading I knew it was the 4th book in the series, but I decided to just go for it and read the other three after. And I discover that it’s okay to read it as a standalone, because you still get all the goosebumps and all the tension, and you are even more curious about Silas, the Deputy Inspector that is the head of the Special Crimes Department at the Scotland Yard.
When you begin the book you get immediately pushed in to the world of the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum and because one of my favorite books and movies is “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” you may understand why I got intrigued even more. And if in the other book and movie the doctors and staff were scarier than the patients, in “The Red Hand of Fury” you can be sure it’s the same.
As we keep reading we understand more what’s going on and even more questions start to form in our minds. This mystery/crime book involves Silas and his companions trying to figure out what caused the death of a series of men. Meanwhile he must confront his own past and we get this weird feeling sometimes, but still we keep reading.
That’s what happened to me. I wasn’t entirely sure of what was true or not. Was he really crazy or was he just pretending? Nevertheless, with the mystery behind those weird deaths, I was so stuck in the book I couldn’t let it go even when I was ready to jump from my seat.
Silas Quinn fascinated me. He’s a complex and intelligent man, haunted by his past, just like we all are I suppose, but there is this ‘something else’ I can’t quite put my finger on that makes him different from all the other detective characters in books, movies and tv series.
R. N. Morris did such an wonderful job creating amazing (good and bad, or just crazy) characters and setting the atmosphere and flow of the book in such a way that made it possible for me to fell into the book and feel like I was part of that story.
I totally recommend this book and I will be reading the previous ones in the near future.
[I want to thank Rachel at Rachel's Random Resources for this blog tour, to R. N. Morris for the amazing book and for getting me curious about the all series, and to NetGalley for the eCoppy of this book in exchange for an honest review.]
When you begin the book you get immediately pushed in to the world of the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum and because one of my favorite books and movies is “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” you may understand why I got intrigued even more. And if in the other book and movie the doctors and staff were scarier than the patients, in “The Red Hand of Fury” you can be sure it’s the same.
As we keep reading we understand more what’s going on and even more questions start to form in our minds. This mystery/crime book involves Silas and his companions trying to figure out what caused the death of a series of men. Meanwhile he must confront his own past and we get this weird feeling sometimes, but still we keep reading.
That’s what happened to me. I wasn’t entirely sure of what was true or not. Was he really crazy or was he just pretending? Nevertheless, with the mystery behind those weird deaths, I was so stuck in the book I couldn’t let it go even when I was ready to jump from my seat.
Silas Quinn fascinated me. He’s a complex and intelligent man, haunted by his past, just like we all are I suppose, but there is this ‘something else’ I can’t quite put my finger on that makes him different from all the other detective characters in books, movies and tv series.
R. N. Morris did such an wonderful job creating amazing (good and bad, or just crazy) characters and setting the atmosphere and flow of the book in such a way that made it possible for me to fell into the book and feel like I was part of that story.
I totally recommend this book and I will be reading the previous ones in the near future.
[I want to thank Rachel at Rachel's Random Resources for this blog tour, to R. N. Morris for the amazing book and for getting me curious about the all series, and to NetGalley for the eCoppy of this book in exchange for an honest review.]
cnvair's review
3.0
A good October read. Creepy enough to keep me turning pages, and the writing is certainly good. I wasn't aware of the previous Silas Quinn novels when I started this; the story is certainly independent of them, but maybe I would've cared more about the characters if I'd read them?
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