En krimi - og som sådan helt ok.
Det, der udmærker den og hæver den over krimi-stadiet, er forsvaret for de vinde og de skæve.
Der er hele mennesker med gode og dårlige sider, og det lille landsbysamfunds problemer..
Her er ingen nemme løsninger.
Derimod er der nogen meget ubehagelige scener.
Jeg er ikke alt for sikker på, at jeg forstod slutningen. Der er mange plots og ikke alle forekommer klart løst.
Der er iblandt sjove vinkler til
overvejelse. Der er et par dråber om
problemer i politiet og en hel spand om
EU og landbruget.
Absolut læseværdig.
Bogen kunne blive en smuk, uhyggelig og spændende film !
'Marriage, he said, after a minute.
'What about it?' said Cooper.
'The most bizarre thing ever invented, in my opinion. You must see what I mean, in your job. Couples tied together for no apparent reason, making each other's lives a misery. Isn't marriage one of the major factors in crime? Domestics, you call them. Arn't ninety per cent of murders committed by the spouse?'
'Something like that.'
'Well, I rest my case. Weddings ought to be banned, along with other blood sports.' 61
I've watched them all go the same way. Those young lads that you meet, full of enthusiasm and vitality, all their lives in front of them. And what happens? A wife and a mortgage. Before you know it, they're coming into work half-asleep because the new baby's kept them awake all night, and then they're moving house to make room for all the family. In the end, they have to get a new job that they hate, just so that they can pay for it all. It's like getting a life sentence without having the pleasure of committing the crime, the poor sods. 62
'He looks as though he shouldn't be out on his own,' said PC Wragg. 'I reckon there ought to be at least two ,ale nurses with him, carrying a strait jacket and a bucket of tranquillizers.' 128
The old cattle market was close to Edendale railway station. The overgrown tracks that ran alongside the market were where the cattle waggons had once been unloaded, in the days when animais were moved by train. Thèse days, they came in by trailer and by huge cattle transporters that brought half of Edendale town centre to a hait on market days as they attempted to negotiate the nanow corners.
The days of Pilkington & Son, Livestock Auctioneers, were numbered anyway. And not just because of their inconvenient location or the lengthening list of European Union regulations that became ever more difficult to comply with. The number of cattle markets was dwindling fast, even in rural counties like Derbyshire. And three years ago, the futuristic white sails of a new agricultural business centre that the farmers called 'Nine Nipples' had appeared fifteen miles away at Bakewell, part of a £12 million regeneration project. It had a vast parking area, modern penning, three sale rings, meeting rooms, an IT centre and conference facilities. Since it opened, Pilkington & Son had merely been counting the days. 231
I'm talking about a little bit of evidence being improved here and there. It happens. Everybody knows that it happens. Where's the harm? As long as you don't get caught.'
'But-' Ben Cooper struggled to capture all the reasons that ran through his mind why this was inconceivable. He thought of words like justice and integrity, like responsibility and honour. He thought of concepts like loyalty to your service, like honesty and truth. And self-respect. And he looked at Todd Weenink and knew that it wasn't worth mentioning even one of them. 320
When Ben Cooper had first arrived, a middle-aged man wearing jeans and a tweed jacket had been standing in the yard next to a red pick-up, talking to Todd Weenink. He turned out to be a farmer from across the valley, and Leach had rung to ask him to milk the cows that afternoon.
'He's taken that way out, has he?' said the farmer. 'I can't say it's a surprise. He isn't the first, and he won't be the last. Some prefer to finish it cleanly, like.' 442
You even want to defend Warren Leach, for God's sake. How can you do that?'
'You have to look at what makes people do things. Their actions don't exist in isolation.'
You should have been a social worker, not a copper.'
'You've got more against social workers than most people do, haven't you?' 469
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