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review 2018-02-04 08:23
Schreckliche Wahrheit
Das Flüstern des Teufels: Psychodrama - A.M. Arimont

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Deutschland, Anfang der 1990er Jahre. Ein kühler Tag im Februar. Zwei Jungs, zehn und elf Jahre alt, entführen ein Kleinkind aus einem Einkaufscenter. Was als harmloser Spaß anfängt, entwickelt sich zu einem wahren Albtraum. Und plötzlich ist nichts mehr so, wie es einmal war. 

 

Meine Meinung 

Wer an diesem Klappentext vorbeikommt, interessiert sich entweder nicht für solch ein Thema oder weiß von vornherein, dass er von solchen Inhalten einfach die Finger lässt. Auch mir war klar, dass der Autor mit „Das Flüstern des Teufels“ ein emotional berührendes Buch geschrieben hat, welches viel Schrecken und Gewalt mit sich bringt.

 

Inspiriert wurde der Autor von einem wahren Fall von Kindesentführung, welcher in den 90er Jahren in England für Aufruhr sorgte. Ich selbst kannte den Fall nicht, habe mich aber im Nachhinein mit den Geschehnissen noch etwas intensiver befasst.

 

Für mich war jedenfalls klar, dass ich an diesem Buch nicht vorbeikomme.

Gerade wahre Begebenheiten, welche die bösen Seiten von Persönlichkeiten aufzeigen, interessieren mich einfach sehr.

Dass es sich bei diesen Personen um Kinder handelt, hat man nicht so häufig, umso gespannter war ich.

 

Der Einstieg in das Buch war super.

Aus der Sicht eines erwachsenen Mannes erfahren wir von seinem Geheimnis.
Diese schreckliche Tat, die er als Junge begangen hat und welche sein ganzes Leben beeinflusst hat.

 

„Dieser eine Tag damals hat das Leben von so vielen Menschen für immer verändert.“ (Pos. 80)

 

Schnell wird klar, dass hier einer der Täter zum Leser spricht.

Seine Gedanken und Worte ließen mich erahnen, welcher Schrecken auf den kommenden Seiten zu erwarten war.

 

Sehr schnell findet man sich als Leser dann in den frühen 90er Jahren wieder.

Das Buch wird weiter aus der gleichen Perspektive erzählt, nur, dass er kein erwachsener Mann mehr ist, sondern wieder ein Kind von 10 Jahren.

Gerade als Kind der 90er stellt man fest, dass der Autor diese Epoche in dem Buch aufleben lässt. Während wir den 10-jährigen Erzähler Sebastian und seinen 11-jährigen Schulfreund Nikolai kennenlernen, stoßen wir in deren Alltag auf Kassetten und Super Nintendo. Beide finden Reiz an verbotenen Sachen, wie Actionfilme, Pornos oder Diebstahl. Auch sprachlich greift A.M. Arimont hier die Kinder auf, alles andere wäre meiner Meinung nach unrealistisch.

 Und dann kommt dieser eine Tag, der ihre Kindheit viel zu schnell enden ließ.

 

„So ist man als Kind. Man macht einfach mit, ohne nachzudenken.“ (Pos. 472)

 

Beide Jungs beschließen die Schule zu schwänzen und wollen den Tag im Einkaufscenter der Stadt verbringen. Viel Unfug folgt. Und dann gerät der 3-jährige David in ihr Blickfeld. Schnell ist eine neue verbotene Idee gefunden. Sie nehmen David mit auf einen Spaziergang.

Einen Spaziergang mit gravierenden Folgen.

 

Nachfolgende Seiten des Buches sind geprägt von Gewalt und Schrecken.

Viele Leser mögen diese Elemente nicht. Für mich gehören sie zu dieser Geschichte. Nur so kann man der Gesellschaft die Tiefen einer Persönlichkeit vor Augen führen. Ebenso bringen diese Beschreibungen den Leser zum Nachdenken.

Für mich stellte sich vor allem die Frage des WARUM?

Hier mag sich jeder seine eigene Meinung bilden.

Bei diesem Fall kommen viele Faktoren zusammen.

 

Ja, die Geschichte bringt eine Gänsehaut mit sich.

Der Autor schafft es diesen Fall näher zu bringen, mir sogar unter die Haut zu schieben. Aber er schafft es auch, dass ich immer noch über diesen Fall nachdenke.

Vor allem die Schuldfrage ist hier sehr interessant.

Hier trifft die Schuld nicht nur die kindlichen Täter, sondern auch die Erwachsenen.

Wie so etwas passieren konnte, da es in aller Öffentlichkeit passiert ist, ist mir fraglich und zeigt mir wieder, dass jeder sich selbst der nächste ist.

Denn es gab Zeugen, aber niemand griff ein.

 

Das Buch endet nicht mit der Tat, sondern erzählt auch die Zeit danach.

Die letzten Worte in der Geschichte gehören wieder dem erwachsenen Mann, der mit seiner Schuld leben muss. Er findet passende Worte zu seiner Tat, die aber nichts mehr ungeschehen machen können.

 

„Wenn ich eines gelernt habe, dann das – ein einziger Fehler reicht, um viele Leben zu zerstören.“ (Pos. 1708)

 

Wie bei vielen Büchern sollte man auch hier das Nachwort des Autors nicht überlesen. Seine Worte machten das Buch für mich rund.

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Ein Punkt hat mich allerdings doch ein wenig gestört.

Ja, es gab einen Lesefluss, welcher aber immer wieder durch Fehler im Lektorat unterbrochen wurde. Wenn man sich so viel Mühe gibt, solch ein Thema auf Papier zu bringen, sollte man sich auch die Zeit nehmen, solche Fehler zu entdecken und zu korrigieren.

 

Mein Fazit

Ein Thema und eine wahre Begebenheit, die es verdient haben Inhalt dieses Buches zu sein. Ich bin dankbar, auf diesen Fall aufmerksam gemacht worden zu sein.

Allen Lesern sollte nach diesem Buch klar sein, dass nicht nur Erwachsene zu Schandtaten bereit sind, nein, auch in Kindern stecken kleine Monster.

„Das Flüstern des Teufels“ ist für mich aber auch ein Werk, welches wachrütteln soll. Und zwar in der Hinsicht, dass auch weggucken zu solchen Taten führen kann. Jeder sollte sich die Mitteilung des Buches zu Herzen nehmen.

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review 2015-03-21 04:30
The Kind Worth Killing
The Kind Worth Killing - Peter Swanson,Johnny Heller,Karen White,Kathleen Early,Keith Szarabajka
Narrators:  Johnny Heller, Karen White, Kathleen Early, Keith Szarabajka 
ASIN:  B00TGJST8Q
Publisher:  Blackstone Audio
Publication Date:  02/10/2015 
Format:  Audio
My Rating: 4 Stars 

 

Oh my . . . reminder to self: Stay clear of this gal, and do not get on her bad side! Pure EVIL. "Beware, of the stranger you meet at the airport and on a plane." The over sharing to the wrong person may kill you. "Keep Epi-Pin close by." Those nasty allergies may cost you.

THE KIND WORTH KILLING by Peter Swanson, is a deliciously evil psychological crime thriller. The author did an outstanding job of tying it all together. An entertaining audiobook with some of my favorite performers: Johnny Heller, Karen White, Kathleen Early, Keith Szarabajka.

Ted, a prominent wealthy business man is at an airport lounge from London to Boston. A beautiful woman, Lily sits next to him and starts a conversation. After a few cocktails, Ted opens up about his wife Miranda’s infidelity and casually says he would like to murder her. Of course, he was not serious.

He has no clue about this woman, thinking she is just a stranger he will never see again. He is unaware of how demented she is, and her past deeds. Thereafter, he sees her again on the plane and picks up the conversation once again, about getting rid of the wife.

As the book moves on, Ted begins to suspect his wife is only staying with him for his money, and begins to think more about this girl named Lily. However, he may be in danger, and Lily has a much more evil and complex plot in mind, as their worlds connect. Lily’s evil goes back to her childhood, as we learn about her author dad and his time in prison, and many more twists, turns and surprises.

There are many characters connected--a game of cat-and-mouse, in order to keep one step ahead of the other. Not many nice characters here...Swanson adds in some wit and humor, to make it interesting. I think they have a contest running, of who can commit murder the best, and get away with it.

A fast-paced clever, twisted suspense psycho-thriller--highly recommend. My first book by Swanson, and enjoyed it so much, have purchased his previous audiobook, The Girl with a Clock for a Heart.

Source: www.goodreads.com/review/show/1231393551
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review 2015-03-20 19:54
The Daylight Marriage
The Daylight Marriage - Heidi Pitlor

 

By: Hedi Pitlor
ISBN: 9781616203689
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Publication Date: 5/5/2015
Format: Other
My Rating: 5 Stars +

 

A very special thank you to Algonquin Books and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

THE DAYLIGHT MARRIAGE, by talented Hedi Pitlor is one unique, complex, suspenseful, thought-provoking, and chilling psychological mystery thriller. "A mouth full"--My heart is still pounding!

As the novel opens in the Cambridge area, we meet an ordinary family of four. Husband Lovell, wife Hannah-age thirty-nine, and two children--Ethan nine, and Janine fifteen.

Lovell, a climate scientist at Mass Environmental, buries himself in his work, data, and deadlines. He studies weather patterns and storms. He has never felt like he quite lived up as a husband and father, even after seventeen years. He feels as though the universe has a way of conspiring against him, when it comes to being the husband Hannah wanted. Maybe, he thinks their differences is simply, economics; he is accustomed to work-giving for a living; she on the other hand has been accustomed to receiving.

After all, he married a girl from a wealthy family raised by a nanny in a waterfront estate on Martha’s Vineyard, spending her birthdays at the Ritz in Boston or the Plaza Hotel, boarding schools—until twelve years ago her father’s business partner was convicted of embezzlement and the sailboat manufacturing company he and her father owned was liquidated. No more money from the parents or business, and savings dwindled, leaving Hannah working at a part-time flower shop. Now his wife is quick to leave a room once he enters. They have not made love in over a year, not for lack of trying on his part. He has no idea how to turn things around at this point.

Hannah, beautiful, tall, the girl who had first shown up at this apartment in Brighton with a pyramid of irises, the delivery girl for Fanciful Flowers, was able to simply stand there and take his breath away. Tonight, Lovell is not happy with her, as once again she forgets to pay the electric bill which is three weeks late. Her husband speaks to her as though she is a bratty child—a spoiled brat. She is almost forty, and she wants a new life and feels her current one is like an “epilogue”.

His wife has expectations. The pressures of any ordinary marriage. Arguments. On one night, an argument grows a little more heated. Things are said. Emotions rising. Disagreements, voices raised, objects are thrown. A night like the others of struggles and unhappiness . . .

The morning after, a different course of action. It began as a typical morning. Work at the flower shop, and Ethan’s orthodontist appoint in the afternoon, worries over her daughter. She has two and half hours before she is due at work.

What goes through the mind of one woman, on her way to drop off her son at school, as she tidies the house, as she heads to her daily routine of work at the flower shop? A detour, like the course of a storm brewing; without warning which changes direction, which will forever change the lives of an ordinary family.

A riveting page-turner, an exploration of emotions of the heart, written with beautiful prose and metaphors of the storms of life. As we flash back and forth from Lovell and Hannah, from details of their younger years when the couple met, their life, an ex-boyfriend, to the events leading up to the night of the heated argument.

Each day Hannah is missing, the intensity mounts, mystery, guilt, struggles, and suspense builds as a man, a father is left to deal with the aftermath, the media, the police; his life, his troubled daughter, and his son. Where is Hannah?

We also hear from Hannah as she is in her car that morning, she is distraught, confused. We experience her emotions, her thoughts, feelings, her choices, a decision…..a wrong turn.

As Lovell studies the potential intensity of tropical cyclones at work, there is another hurricane brewing in his personal life, he may not be able to predict or control with the same preciseness—an going theme throughout the novel -the storms of life, climate patterns, damage, destruction. Like hurricanes, life may erratic and intense, and no one can predict when tragedy will strike nor prepare for the aftermath.

What makes this novel so powerful, mind-blowing, raw, and emotional; It is so realistic; the events could happen to any marriage or family, on any given ordinary day.

Gone Girl, move over. An intense read, a page-turner which has you rushing to find out whereabouts of Hannah. What happened to her? The author delivers extraordinary insights with raw human dynamics. Fans of deep psychological suspense thrillers will be glued to the pages. Can’t wait to see what is next, an author to follow!

My prediction: THE DAYLIGHT MARRIAGE lands on the top list "Books That Inspired Oscar-Worthy Films."

"Home is so far from Home."-Emily Dickinson

"Life itself may be part of the answer to the riddle of the faint young sun."-Kerry Emanuel, What We know about Climate Change
Source: www.goodreads.com/review/show/1169324264?type=review#rating_40263769
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review 2015-03-19 23:42
The First Wife
The First Wife - Erica Spindler

By Erica Spindler 

ISBN:  1250012546

Publisher:  St. Martin's Press

Publication Date: 2/10/2015 

Format:  Audio

My Rating:  3 Stars

 

THE FIRST WIFE by Erica Spindler is a mystery suspense psychodrama of small town dark secrets, mixed with romance ---leaving you guessing as to which characters you can trust.

Bailey Browne meets an older man while vacationing in the Cayman, and falls into a quick romance, and marriage less than a few weeks after their meeting. She of course knows nothing about this man, Logan Abbott. Upon their return back to the real world at his horse farm in Louisiana, most of the staff and the town are shocked of Bailey’s resemblance to his first wife, True.

She wonders why her new husband never mentions his wife and the circumstances surrounding her disappearance. At first Bailey does not think too much about the comments and whispers comparing her to True. However, she soon discovers there may be more surrounding this time when she disappeared. Was her husband a cold blooded murderer, and could she be next?

Billy Ray, a local police chief insists Baily needs to watch her back, and her husband is a cold blooded killer--he will keep digging to prove Logan is to blame.

More strange things begin happening, and Bailey becomes frightened of her husband and at the same time she wonders why Billy Ray is so obsessed. Then more women disappear and she becomes afraid for her life and she is in danger.

We move back and forth between the real killer, the husband or the cop with twists and turns until the end, until the identity is revealed.

This is my first book by the author, and even though the novel had some good writing and suspense, found it to be "middle of the road", and did not really love or dislike it. It did not wow me --- listened to the audiobook narrated by Tavia Gilbert- providing a pleasant performance.

 

 

 

Source: www.goodreads.com/review/show/1212598609
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