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Title: Burned
Author: Thomas Enger
Narrator: Gareth Armstrong
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-23-15
Publisher: Oakhill Publishing
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
A solitary tent is found to contain the body of a half-buried woman. Shes been stoned to death. There are lash marks across her back. One of her hands has been cut off.
Two years earlier Internet reporter Henning Juul lost his son, Jonas, in a domestic fire. As he returns to work, physically and emotionally scarred, Henning struggles to escape this past and to be taken seriously again as a reporter.
Told to cover the story of the woman in the tent, he finds an increasingly dangerous trail and, despite an early arrest, is convinced the story is more complex than the police think...
Critic Reviews:
"[Enger] is one of the most unusual and intense talents in the field." (Independent)
"A fascinating addition to the 'Scandinavian noir' genre, I look forward to the series unfolding." (Crimesquad)
"[It] has real strengths: the careful language, preserved in the fine translation; and its haunted journalist hero.... An intriguing series." (Guardian)
"Suspenseful, dark and gritty, this is a must-read." (Booklist)
Members Reviews:
Four Stars
cant wait foe next
Brilliant start to a great series
Broken, both physically and mentally, Henning Juul is just one of those characters who I became invested in from the very first time I âmetâ him, while reading Cursed. Now this was a long way into Henningâs journey to find out the truth about what happened to his son, so it was really intriguing to take a step back in time to join Henning just as he is about to try and restart his life after the tragic fire which cost him almost everything.
What he finds as he re-enters his workplace for the first time in two years, is just how much everything has changed. It is all shiny and new, from the fixtures and fittings of the offices right down to the relationship his ex wife Nora has engaged in with the stationâs new super star journalist. It is hard for Henning who still bears the scars of the fire and who still suffers emotionally, to find his feet in this new world. He lost so much of himself in the fire, but he didnât his journalistic instinct or his nose for a story and it is this which drives him to look deeper into a particularly harrowing story; that of a young woman who appears to have been stoned to death.
The case is complex, touching upon the Muslim faith, the idea of sharia law and of revenge killing. It brings Henning face to face with a merciless group of men who would kill to protect each other, their business and their faith and on more than one occasion Henning finds himself once again dicing with death. But there is much more to the story than meets the eye and Thomas Enger has very skilfully woven together so many seemingly unconnected threads that you will not fully understand where the story is heading, or the truth of what has happened until the very end.
The characterisations in this book were excellent, very diverse and carefully delivered to the reader. Generating fiction based around any faith is a very difficult thing to do, the author having to walk a fine line between stereotype and reality, but Thomas Enger manages this well, capturing the sense of the prejudice and mistrust that surrounds the Muslim faith in many a community.