Ragdoll
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Londra, 2010. Il processo al Cremation Killer, Naguib Khalid, è giunto al momento della sentenza. Il detective William Fawkes, detto Wolf, è in ansiosa attesa del verdetto. Perché le prove a carico dell’imputato sono indiziarie, e c’è chi dice che siano state inventate da Wolf stesso. Quando Khalid viene assolto, Wolf lo aggredisce in tribunale e viene rinchiuso in un ospedale psichiatrico. Ma pochi giorni dopo Khalid viene colto sul fatto: se solo avessero ascoltato Wolf, l’ultima vittima avrebbe potuto salvarsi invece di morire bruciata viva come le altre. Londra, 2014: Wolf è tornato in servizio, ma è un uomo distrutto. Divorziato, ha appena traslocato in un palazzo fatiscente ai margini della capitale inglese. Una notte, viene convocato su una scena del crimine. In un appartamento disabitato si trova un cadavere. Un solo corpo… Ma sei vittime. Sei parti differenti, sei membra di persone diverse, cucite insieme in modo rozzo. Ma non basta, perché il killer fa arrivare alla stampa un elenco di nomi e date.
Sono le sue prossime vittime, e l’assassino arriva a dire anche quando le ucciderà. Ed è scorrendo la lista fino all’ultimo nome che Wolf capisce che quella terribile sfida lo riguarda molto, molto da vicino.
- ISBN: 8830447285
- Casa Editrice: Longanesi
- Pagine: 432
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This is an unforgettable crime thriller that you do not want to miss. It is packed with the darkest of humour with grotesque and gory crimes. It begins with scenes from the Old Bailey on the trial of the Cremation Killer, Naguib Khaled. The jury has arrived at its verdict and Detective William Fawke Leggi tutto
Ragdoll is a gritty story that draws comparisons to David Fincher’s superb neo-noir thriller, Se7en. Wolf is the broken lead, propelling the tale forward with his hidden link to the killer, but the viewpoint switches between the various unwitting players in the Ragdoll Killer’s sick game – the futur Leggi tutto
I can't stop thinking about this book, I have a severe book hangover, I just loved everything about it. I found it to be very addicting. This book is incredible! It is complex, thrilling, gripping, exciting and horrendous, all at the same time. Ragdoll opens four years prior to the events of the ‘Rag Leggi tutto
I'd rate this 4.5 stars. Despite the fact that I had a medley of Aerosmith's Rag Doll and Rag Doll by The Four Seasons running through my head while reading this book (not because of any plot points, just because my head is full of musical earworms), Daniel Cole's Ragdoll was a pretty fantastic,
A Traveling Sister read with Norma, Brenda and Kendall!! 3.5* The premise for this book was great! One body - six victims. So you ask how does that add up? Well, it goes like this. Appendages from six separate people sewn together to create one gruesome body. Then left hanging like a hideous “ragdoll” Leggi tutto
Traveling Sisters Group Review by NORMA, BRENDA, KACEEY and KENDALL!! Norma’s rating: 4 stars! Our second pick for our Traveling Sisters Group Read was RAGDOLL by DANIEL COLE and we all had varying thoughts on the ending with this one. RAGDOLL (Detective William Fawkes #1) by DANIEL COLE is a clever, Leggi tutto
First off, yay to my first traveling sister read with Norma, Brenda, and Kaceey! This was so much fun to read alongside some lovely ladies! Ok... now to get down to business. I was uber excited to read Ragdoll. A body that is found with the dismembered parts of six victims sewn together like a
This one was so good I found myself reading bits of it out loud to anyone who wanted to listen. It is a very gory thriller and yet the humour in much of the dialogue made me laugh out loud! The characters too are charming especially the main character, William Fawkes or Wolf as he is better known. H Leggi tutto
Daniel Cole emerges on the scene with this thought-provoking debut thriller that will have readers wondering until the very end. Detective Sergeant William Fawkes has recently returned to the Metropolitan Police Force after a significant absence. After one of his cases—the Cremation Killer—went to t Leggi tutto
RAGDOLL by Daniel Cole is a brilliant debut novel that began as a rejected TV screenplay, that was later adopted to a novel. I am so glad the story was told. This novel reminded me of SE7EN but with dark humour throughout. This novel is not for the squeamish. “The Cremation Killer”, as the press had Leggi tutto
