Summary: A woman’s
corpse is discovered in a meadow. A strange combination of letters and numbers
has been tattooed on the soles of her feet. Detective inspector Beatrice
Kaspary from the local murder squad quickly identifies the digits as map
coordinates. These lead to a series of gruesome discoveries as she and her
colleague Florin Wenninger embark on a bloody trail – a modern-day scavenger
hunt using GPS navigation devices to locate hidden caches. The
"owner" of these unofficial, unpublished geocaches is a highly
calculating and elusive fiend who leaves his victims’ body-parts sealed in
plastic bags, complete with riddles that culminate in a five-stage plot.
Kaspary herself becomes an unwilling pawn in the perpetrator’s game of cat and
mouse as she risks all to uncover the motives behind the murderer’s
actions. Five is definitely not a book for the faint-hearted,
but it delivers great suspense, unexpected plot twists, and multi-dimensional
characters.
Angie's Comments: A dark mystery with an ending that surprised me. The murderer
definitely has a motive, and it is not madness. The author includes Beatrice’s
home life in the novel, showing how she does or does not balance her work and
home lives. I enjoyed Beatrice as a character, and the hard work that the
detectives put into solving the murders. I also took the opportunity of
inputting the map coordinates in Google Earth to have a look at the locations
described by Archer. That added some fun in the reading.
If you
like dark mysteries, this one is fantastic!
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