Messiah (novel)
Messias (original title: Messiah ) is a novel by the British writer Boris Starling from 1999. A kind of sequel, which partly builds on the novel, was published in 2000 as The Last Crossing (original title: Storm). The TV series Messias of the same name is based on the novel .
action
The novel is set in 1998/1999. Detective Superintendent Redfern "Red" Metcalfe is called to the crime scene. Party service owner Philip Rhodes is found dead in his home. There are no signs of burglary, and the victim's tongue was cut out and replaced with a silver spoon. A short time later, a bishop is murdered in a different way. Again the tongue is missing and instead of it there is a silver spoon in the mouth. In a team with Jeremy "Jez" Clifton, Kate Beauchamp and Warren Duncan, Red embarks on a search for the murderer, who leaves no trace. After there are more victims and various theories are put forward, a suspect is arrested who no one expected; however, it is the wrong one. Meanwhile, Red is in danger without knowing it.
Every now and then chapters appear with retrospectives in Red's past, later also chapters with messages from the murderer.
reception
Messiah reached number 19 on the New York Times bestseller list . The reviewer of Publishers Weekly praised the “feeling of fear and anxiety” that the novel creates, as well as the increasing tension at the end, in which the two lines of action unexpectedly and dramatically cross.
expenditure
- Original edition: Messiah. Harper Collins, 1999, ISBN 0-00-651204-6 .
- German translation: Messiah.
- Book, Econ & List, 1999, ISBN 3-612-27661-1 .
- Paperback, Ullstein, 2002, ISBN 3-548-25468-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Messiah I ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung .
- ↑ Bestsellers Fiction Paperback . In: The New York Times . September 19, 1999.
- ↑ Messiah . In: Publishers Weekly . August 30, 1999.
