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tien's review against another edition
4.0
I’m pretty sure I check on Goodreads before I pick or request certain books BUT for some reason, I’m still caught up with picking up and reading books from the middle of a series! I’m not just being pedantic but in this particular book, it was a little confusing trying to pick up where their personal relationships are at... for example, this guy got up from bed quietly so as not to wake someone in bed and a sentence later, it was mentioned that he’s divorced. It skipped a few steps of his stages in life of some years that I was quite confused! I had to work this out for a few of the characters.
On the other hand, the mystery itself was very good. What seem to be random killings of unlikely victims just before the holiday season threatened the peace of the public. Whilst people are hiding out at home to avoid being randomly murdered, the police are short-staffed and Detective Pia Kirchhoff decided to stay home to catch this serial killer than going on her honeymoon cruise. Oliver von Bodenstein, happy to have his partner on board, was not happy with the way the team’s dynamic has been disturbed with the specialist profiler they’ve seconded from another department. However, who is this profiler? And why does he seem to be incompetent?
To Catch a Killer will keep you guessing right up to the end. I would probably read the next book in the series but am not keen to pick up earlier books (I don’t like looking backward!). The main mystery was solved but I am left with several questions... there was an open situation left with certain character.
Thanks to MacMillan Australia for paperback copy in exchange of honest review
On the other hand, the mystery itself was very good. What seem to be random killings of unlikely victims just before the holiday season threatened the peace of the public. Whilst people are hiding out at home to avoid being randomly murdered, the police are short-staffed and Detective Pia Kirchhoff decided to stay home to catch this serial killer than going on her honeymoon cruise. Oliver von Bodenstein, happy to have his partner on board, was not happy with the way the team’s dynamic has been disturbed with the specialist profiler they’ve seconded from another department. However, who is this profiler? And why does he seem to be incompetent?
To Catch a Killer will keep you guessing right up to the end. I would probably read the next book in the series but am not keen to pick up earlier books (I don’t like looking backward!). The main mystery was solved but I am left with several questions... there was an open situation left with certain character.
Thanks to MacMillan Australia for paperback copy in exchange of honest review
cleng's review against another edition
5.0
An awesome police procedural...superb complex plotting and characters.
teekraenzchen's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
pgchuis's review against another edition
3.0
A police procedural set in Frankfurt, translated reasonably well, although there were a few odd turns of phrase. This seems to be one of a series, which perhaps goes some way to explaining the convoluted relationships everyone seemed to be involved in; all the characters seemed to be on their second marriages and regarded their children as an inconvenience.
I enjoyed it for the most part, although there were far too many doctors with varying roles for me to keep them apart in my mind. It went on too long as well and the body count was pretty high. The ending was (despite the epilogue) confusing to me: What exactly was Hartig's involvement? Why did Thomsen keep secrets and then suddenly divulge them all? Why did Erik's version of his mother's death have him and Helen discover her collapsed and then use her phone to call an ambulance, when the plot required Helen to have asked Renate to call the emergency services for them and her forget to do so? - This led me to assume that Erik was implicated in some way.
Ultimately it was just too convoluted and there were just too many threads of wrong doing at the hospital (none of which I believed could really go on in Germany in the 21st century).
I don't think I'll read any more of these.
I enjoyed it for the most part, although there were far too many doctors with varying roles for me to keep them apart in my mind. It went on too long as well and the body count was pretty high. The ending was (despite the epilogue) confusing to me:
Ultimately it was just too convoluted and there were just too many threads of wrong doing at the hospital (none of which I believed could really go on in Germany in the 21st century).
I don't think I'll read any more of these.
zoer03's review against another edition
5.0
Love love love this series, it’s gripping, very disturbing and chilling as it feels so much like something you could find in the news. If I could I would give this five ❤️s