Early on, we learn that Gavila was abandoned by his wife, Vasquez cuts herself and Rosa, an agent in Gavila's team, is going through a tough time in her marriage.
While the investigation delves in very sinister places and nonchalantly explores the psychology behind the heinous acts the team comes across, it's Carrisi's characters that eventually bring the biggest and darkest surprises in the narrative. In fact, if there's one critique that can be made of this book, it's the fact that Carrisi fools the reader time and time again, which can be too much for some in a book that comes in at 422 pages. However, what Gavila's team, as well as the readers, are lead to believe is a step toward solving the murders and finding the sixth girl, often turns out to be a step in the wrong direction. At the end of each chapter, the author unveils a piece of the puzzle. However, as the story progresses, the investigators learn that this case is way more complicated than they could have ever imagined.Ĭarrisi is a master of building tension and twists his story as often and as wonderfully as a great jazz musician manipulates harmony. With the help of the rest of the team, Gavila and Vasquez quickly learn enough to have a suspect. Since there is a child missing, investigator Mila Vasquez, who's an expert at finding missing children, is brought in to lend some help. The team that takes over the investigation is lead by Goran Gavila, a man with a sharp mind and vast knowledge when it comes to killers. To complicate things, the girls' bodies are nowhere to be found and whoever buried the limbs left no clues behind. However, the sixth arm doesn't fit in with disappearances and the coroner thinks it was cut while the victim was still alive. The limbs are arranged in a strange circle and they appear to belong to missing girls between the ages of eight and eighteen. The Whisperer starts rapidly and with a gruesome touch: six severed arms are discovered buried in the woods. Don't be surprised if it becomes a bestseller here as well. The novel, which was a bestseller all over Europe, was translated by Shaun Whiteside and released by Mulholland Books in the US last month.
With Donato Carrisi's The Whisperer, the genre is not only receiving a breath of fresh air the book is taking dark literary thrillers to a new level.
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