The frozen dead => http://tauspeakxiwatch.nnmcloud.ru/d?s=YToyOntzOjc6InJlZmVyZXIiO3M6MjE6Imh0dHA6Ly9iaXRiaW4uaXQyX2RsLyI7czozOiJrZXkiO3M6MTU6IlRoZSBmcm96ZW4gZGVhZCI7fQ== The book also fails the Bechdel test. Mráz šel hodně dlouho mimo mě, povrchně musím přiznat, že mě prostě nenalákaly obálky a neměla jsem tím tendenci zjišťovat víc. For instance, in this book there is Samira, a police woman who the reader is never allowed to forget has a beautiful body but an ugly face. The kind of place where winters are harsh and unforgiving and where nothing ever happens. The high mountains and glaciers; the almost-constant snow, the cold, wind, freezing rain, fog — all are as important as any character in the novel. El final de la obra es una pirotecnia excesiva, como explosiones en cadena: le sobran efectos escénicos que rebajan la obra a un fin de puro entretenimiento. I won't lie, there were times when I had a hard time with this book. This is one of the best. On the other, it was thrilling in many respects. Did you fucking forget how to properly rate a book? Přesto druhému dílu šanci určitě dám, již jen kvůli autorově citu pro atmosféru. Norberg can thaw the body but not the brain. The Frozen Dead (season 1, 2) full episodes download - Možná by to chtělo trochu proškrtat a bylo by to skvělé. The first victim is a horse: its headless body hangs suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff. On the same day as the gruesome discovery, a young psychiatrist starts her first job at a secure asylum for the criminally insane, just a few miles away. Commandant Servaz, a Toulouse city cop, can't believe he has been called out over the death of an animal. But there is someth The first victim is a horse: its headless body hangs suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff. On the same day as the gruesome discovery, a young psychiatrist starts her first job at a secure asylum for the criminally insane, just a few miles away. Commandant Servaz, a Toulouse city cop, can't believe he has been called out over the death of an animal. But there is something disturbing about this crime that he cannot ignore. In this snowbound valley, deep in the frozen dead Pyrenees, a dark story of madness and revenge is unfolding. It will take all of Servaz's skill to solve it. The action is set in southern France in the Pyrenees, bordering on Spain where the author grew up. This is what I call an environmental novel. The high mountains and glaciers; the almost-constant snow, the cold, wind, freezing rain, fog — all are as important as any character in the novel. In that way the book reminds me of the importance of the environment in The Shipping News by Annie Proulx or in Snow by Orhan Pamuk. This is what I call an environmental novel. The high mountains and glaciers; the almost-constant snow, the cold, wind, freezing rain, fog — all are as important as any character in the novel. In that way the book reminds me of the importance of the environment in The Shipping News by Annie Proulx or in Snow by Orhan Pamuk. We have a mystery with a police detective who turns 40 during the story. He listens to classical music, reads ancient texts, and is fond of quoting Latin. First a championship race horse, then human bodies are found hanging from a high-altitude bridge and a ski lift. This is an excellent first novel by a man who was a 51-year-old French customs inspector before the frozen dead wrote his first book. The plot is complex but reasonably plausible, with several twists and turns and yet easy to follow. When a body is discovered dangling from a cliff, Commandant Martin Servaz is called to the scene. Much to his dismay, the body is that of a decapitated horse. Sure that someone has playe In my attempt to explore more dark mysteries translated from another language, I stumbled upon French author, Bernard Minier. When a body is discovered dangling from a cliff, Commandant Martin Servaz is called to the scene. Much to his dismay, the body is that of a decapitated horse. Sure that someone has played a macabre joke, Servaz tries to remove himself from the case, feeling that his skills could be better used elsewhere. Servaz is intrigued and finds himself newly committed to the case, curious how a super-max facility could be porous enough to have one of their most notorious patients slipping out. On the same day as the horse is discovered, Diane Berg arrives to take up employment at the asylum. A Swiss psychologist by trade, Berg learns much about the facility and their less than mainstream means of treating patients. Non-anesthetized electro-shock therapy, graphic virtual reality with body probes, and countless medicines no longer used in the treatment of psychiatric patients all find themselves used on a daily basis, with a director who prides himself on these unorthodox measures. Back on the outside, Servaz is called to the scene of another body, this time a man who is found hanging under a bridge. Servaz is baffled, particularly when he arrives at the asylum and cannot find a means by which anyone would be able to escape or to return unnoticed. When Servaz learns that the community also lived through a number of teen suicides, all by hanging, he wonders how much more the locals can take. Further probing can only help to open old wounds and forces Servaz to wonder if he is doing so more out of the frozen dead than necessity. Servaz finds himself distracted as well by his daughter, who is beginning to exhibit odd behaviours, so much so that he has her tailed. What he discovers shocks him a little, but that proves to help his case, if only a little. Berg continues to probe inside the asylum, trying to answer her own questions, but her inquisitiveness might be unknowingly acting as a secondary investigator for this truly baffling case. A wonderfully dark piece that pulls the reader into corners of the story that are anything but pleasant, Minier exemplifies that the language barrier does not lessen the impact of this thriller. Perfect for those who enjoy macabre pieces with a protagonist who is anything but uplifting. While no expert, I have read a number of mysteries whose original publication language is not English. I find them scintillating and require the reader to play a much more active role than in some of the pieces penned in my mother tongue. Minier portrays Commandant Servaz in much the same way as my Scandinavian police officers, fighting his own demons and with a personal life more jagged than peaceful. Servaz seems to have an agenda all his own, surrounded by colleagues who are anything but sycophants. He struggles to piece together the clues, but always ends up positing the most outlandish possibilities, some of which prove fruitful as he synthesizes the statements made by reluctant witnesses. Minier is able not only to tell his dark mystery, but also create a decent backstory for a few of his characters, whose lives away from the office and the case at hand show that they, too, have secrets they prefer not rise to the surface. The story remains dark and the element of equine torture pulls the reader in from the early going. What else might Minier have in store for the reader. Exploration of the asylum angle only further baits the reader and keeps the story from becoming too predictable. Slow to develop, but with a constant sense of forward movement, Minier pulls the reader along and keeps things from becoming too easy to discern. These are the best types of novels, as the reader can never tell where a twist will take things. Minier, for pulling me in and finding a new fan. I can only hope that others will be as intrigued to read this and the other novels in which Martin Servaz makes an appearance. An ever-growing collection of others appears at: