Sixteen Horses

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De schrijfstijl is prima, maar het plot is dusdanig karig waardoor de warboel ook nog een onrealistisch is. The same goes for Sechzehn Pferde: Roman - »So etwas wie ›Sechzehn Pferde‹ haben Sie noch nicht gelesen. No one can accept fatalities as a certainty at any race and no one, least of all anyone in racing, wants to see what we witnessed in Saturday’s National. This is a novel that I cannot in all honesty say I enjoyed, it was just too dark for me at times, with its abuse of animals and vets facing the eternal conundrum in their profession, how to save the animals from their owners, given animals have no rights.

While a 14-minute delay to a race ordinarily might have no effect on the horses, it was the timing of it – after the horses had been saddled – which was critical. Whilst written in third person, the POV does shift between quite a few different characters and after a while they all start to merge together. However, it may seem problematic for those readers who take frequent breaks in between their reading, in which case this jumping from one scene to the next, sometimes, leaving no clues to the narrator of the POV we are reading, may break the flow in the story and make it feel disjointed. Auf einer Farm eines entlegenen englisches Dorfes werden 16 Pferdeköpfe in zwei Kreisen eingegraben gefunden.Ze roepen de hulp in van forensisch dierenarts Cooper Allen, omdat ze merken dat de zaak groter is dan ze denken. Wenn Gewalt gegen Tiere angewendet wird, geht es dem Täter nicht um die Tiere, sondern um den Moment der Entdeckung der Opfer und die Macht, die er in dem Moment ausübt, davon ist Cooper überzeugt. An extreme disappointment, complete waste of time, didn't realize how much animal cruelty got to me till reading this book. Clearly, those who find animal cruelty difficult to read about will not find this an easy read and I think that some may just find it too harrowing – cosy crime it isn’t.

Haunting and very dark, this is certainly worth the read – with the caveat that there are distressing scenes involving animal abuse. The mystery soon unravels into much more than just murdered animals, drawing the reader in with secrets and a multi-layered crime.

Nevertheless, my colleagues and I will continue to dedicate our lives to looking after these wonderful animals, who are bred for this sport which brings such a wonderful quality of life to so many horses. Several others were independents, like Michael Stafford’s Annie, who pulled a carriage at the local seaside arcade. I wasn't even sure by the last page who killed the horses - oh, and some dogs in some crates - or how and why.

The characters are almost predictable, the tired, gruff cop, the assistance from a wary outsider, the locals in their insular lives, but Greg Buchanan twists and spins their lives, their fears, their actions in an unpredictable fashion.Und teilweise wird die Geschichte recht ruhig erzählt, es ist kein Buch, durch das man mit einem atemberaubendem Tempo rast, dennoch hat es mir manchmal den Atem geraubt ob seiner Düsternis und seiner Beschreibung des Bösen im Menschen. A series of crimes comes to light - disappearances, arson, and mutilations--and in the dark days that follow, the town slips into panic and paranoia. C. Baccaris (Devotionalia, The Twine Grimoire), also featuring the work of Trevor Henderson (creator of Siren Head).