Review by Wy_Bertram -- The Dark Web Murders
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Review by Wy_Bertram -- The Dark Web Murders
[Following is a volunteer review of "The Dark Web Murders" by Brian O'Hare.]
The Dark Web Murders from the Inspector Sheehan Mysteries Collection by Brian O’Hare.
In the prologue of this novel, a light is shone on the brutality of a corrupt justice system. The rest of the book details the macabre consequences that follow.
Lurking in the depths of the Dark Web is a faceless poet, but while he writes in the high-flown dialect of the greats past, he only describes the lurid details of his murders, with narcissistic moral arguments to justify his own cruelty. A self-proclaimed agent of justice, a right-er of wrongs, Neimen rampages in the name of retribution.
It falls on Chief Inspector Jim Sheehan and his astute team of detectives to put an end to this madman. An investigation that leads to the doorsteps of Northern Ireland's high-and-mighty, but their jaded eyes and taciturn lips seem to be hiding a more sinister plot.
Time is not on the side of good. As the team struggles for answers, the faceless poet moves unseen, crossing names off his list and redefining justice in his own bloody way.
I’ll confess my reluctance towards reading a book from a running series, especially one with three books already published. But this novel contained three keywords that changed the question from whether to when. I was not disappointed. Brian O’Hare is an incredible penman who threaded his words so masterfully, that I found myself moralising the cold-blooded logic of a serial killer. He takes the normal convention of a murder-mystery and mixes in elements that make you wonder who exactly the real villain is. And introducing bits of reality like Brexit, he roots the story to the present, driving it further home with chilling insight into the unknowable depths of the Dark Web, where inhuman crimes go unseen and the perpetrators unchecked.
My favourite feature of the entire book was the killers little asides. The author did not try to humanise him, but let him do that himself, with his florid vocabulary and arguable logic. My least favourite was how quickly the climax was rounded up. I felt like a drawn-out, agonising climax would have fit the story more.
In all, it makes sense that this book is one of my top picks this year. Skilfully-written and well-edited it kept me guessing the entire way through. I would recommend this to any fan of the crime/mystery genre and it’s even suitable for younger readers due to a minimal use of expletives. I definitely see myself reading more from this author in the future and unsurprisingly, I have my eyes on the rest of the books from the Inspector Sheehan series.
A definite 4 out of 4 for me.
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The Dark Web Murders
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The Dark Web Murders from the Inspector Sheehan Mysteries Collection by Brian O’Hare.
In the prologue of this novel, a light is shone on the brutality of a corrupt justice system. The rest of the book details the macabre consequences that follow.
Lurking in the depths of the Dark Web is a faceless poet, but while he writes in the high-flown dialect of the greats past, he only describes the lurid details of his murders, with narcissistic moral arguments to justify his own cruelty. A self-proclaimed agent of justice, a right-er of wrongs, Neimen rampages in the name of retribution.
It falls on Chief Inspector Jim Sheehan and his astute team of detectives to put an end to this madman. An investigation that leads to the doorsteps of Northern Ireland's high-and-mighty, but their jaded eyes and taciturn lips seem to be hiding a more sinister plot.
Time is not on the side of good. As the team struggles for answers, the faceless poet moves unseen, crossing names off his list and redefining justice in his own bloody way.
I’ll confess my reluctance towards reading a book from a running series, especially one with three books already published. But this novel contained three keywords that changed the question from whether to when. I was not disappointed. Brian O’Hare is an incredible penman who threaded his words so masterfully, that I found myself moralising the cold-blooded logic of a serial killer. He takes the normal convention of a murder-mystery and mixes in elements that make you wonder who exactly the real villain is. And introducing bits of reality like Brexit, he roots the story to the present, driving it further home with chilling insight into the unknowable depths of the Dark Web, where inhuman crimes go unseen and the perpetrators unchecked.
My favourite feature of the entire book was the killers little asides. The author did not try to humanise him, but let him do that himself, with his florid vocabulary and arguable logic. My least favourite was how quickly the climax was rounded up. I felt like a drawn-out, agonising climax would have fit the story more.
In all, it makes sense that this book is one of my top picks this year. Skilfully-written and well-edited it kept me guessing the entire way through. I would recommend this to any fan of the crime/mystery genre and it’s even suitable for younger readers due to a minimal use of expletives. I definitely see myself reading more from this author in the future and unsurprisingly, I have my eyes on the rest of the books from the Inspector Sheehan series.
A definite 4 out of 4 for me.
******
The Dark Web Murders
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