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    Schwarzer Schmetterling (Gekürzte Fassung)

    Written by Bernard Minier

    Narrated by Johannes Steck

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    In einem düsteren Tal in den Pyrenäen machen zwei Arbeiter eine verstörende Entdeckung: Ein riesiger, bedrohlich schwarzer Schmetterling scheint sich von den schnee- und blutbefleckten Felsen abzuheben. Ein Tierkadaver, grauenvoll inszeniert. Das Werk eines Wahnsinnigen? Am Tatort werden DNA-Spuren des hochintelligenten Serienmörders Julian Hirtmann gefunden. Doch dieser sitzt seit Jahren im Hochsicherheitstrakt einer hermetisch abgeriegelten Anstalt. Wie konnte der einst meistgesuchte Täter Europas seine Spuren hinterlassen, obwohl er nie seine Zelle verlassen hat? Noch während Commandant Servaz und die junge Anstaltspsychologin Diane Berg versuchen, das Rätsel zu lösen, wird das Tal von einer kaltblütig inszenierten Mordserie erschüttert, die die Ermittler an den Rand ihrer psychischen Belastbarkeit bringt...
    LanguageDeutsch
    PublisherArgon Verlag GmbH Audio
    Release dateAug 23, 2012
    ISBN9783839811467
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    Schwarzer Schmetterling (Gekürzte Fassung)
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    Bernard Minier

    Bernard Minier grew up in the foothills of the French Pyrenees. He had a career as a customs official before publishing his first novel, The Frozen Dead, in 2011. The novel has been translated into a dozen languages and has garnered critical acclaim as well as several literary prizes in France. Minier lives in the Essonne, south of Paris.

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    • 5/5
      Policeman Martin Servaz makes his way through and investigation that has so many twists and turns he does not know what to think. The story takes place in the cold Pyrenees Mountains on the border between France and Spain.When you begin to read this book you will become mesmerized and you won't be able to put it down. A great storyline and most interesting characters. A book you can not miss.***I received this book from the publisher in return for an honest review****
    • 5/5
      Fabulous reading. The locale is unusual, beautiful, written about in vivid description. The opening chapter is pure win. The characters are well fleshed out and interesting, you want to read more about them.
    • 4/5
      The Frozen Dead is a slow chill that eventually and finally overtakes you. You hear about dangerous treks in the Pyrenees where people get lost and freeze--well this is one of them. A brooding French detective and a homicide investigation of a rich man's horse open this tale and it gets weirder. An asylum with only the most criminally insane in the world, strange summer camps, a long list of suspects for the careful reader. Are you freezing yet? This reminds me of how I felt reading Girl with the Dragon Tattoo-- so many directions but which way to go. Only to the end, where Minier pulls it all together, successfully, amazingly, together. And now you're ready to thaw out and start the next case. A slow but satisfying winter storm of a read. Provided by publisher
    • 4/5
      The Frozen Dead. Bernard Minier. 2011. I thought this was going to be a “Silence of the Lambs-type” book, but it was a police procedural set in the Pyrenees.There is a hideous psychotic locked up in a creepy asylum for the criminally insane who may be involved in a series of gruesome murders but the focus is on the hunt. When a headless horse is found on hanging on a cliff, Martin Servas, the brilliant Latin quoting commandant from Toulouse comes over to work with Irene Ziegler a small tough police woman who wears leather and rides a motorcycle I love French police procedurals and this is a good one. There are lots of plot twists and surprises. It is violent and the life styles of some of the characters are not traditional, It is a series and I hope the other books are as suspenseful
    • 4/5
      Saint-Martin-de-Comminges is a small town nestled in the French Pyrenees. The kind of place where winters are harsh and unforgiving and where nothing ever happens.
      Until the winter morning when a group of workers discover the headless, flayed body of a horse, hanging suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff.
      On the same day the gruesome discovery takes place, Diane Berg, a young psychiatrist starts her first job at a high-security asylum for the criminally insane, just a few miles away. She is baffled by the slightly unorthodox methods the asylum’s director uses, and then greatly alarmed when she realizes that drugs are disappearing from within the fortified institution while someone seems to be slipping out at night.

      Commandant Martin Servaz, a charismatic city cop from nearby Toulouse fond of quoting Latin, can’t believe he has been called out over the death of an animal. But there’s something disturbing about this crime that he can’t ignore. Then DNA from one of the most notorious inmates of the asylum, a highly intelligent former prosecutor, accused of killing and raping several women, is found on the horse carcass . . . and a few days later the first human murder takes place. A dark story of madness and revenge seems to be unfolding.

      Servaz and his colleague, the mysterious Irene Ziegler, must use all their skill to solve the terrifying mystery and best one of the most fiendish and clever opponents they could ever imagine..

      Loved this atmospheric thriller that read like a Scandi noir. Beginning is a bit slow, confusing but be patient it soon develops at a steady pace that keeps you turning the pages.

      Great sense of place, you can feel the cold seeping off the page. I hope to meet Commandant Servaz again in the near future....


    • 4/5
      This is a tale of murder and revenge set in the harshness of a Pyrenees winter where the atmosphere is influenced as much by the wilderness and the snow as by the unfolding events. The decapitated body of a horse found hanging from a frozen cliff triggers the involvement of Toulouse police Commandant Martin Servaz, but it isn’t long before human bodies start turning up. The killings are taking place in close proximity to a secure institution for the criminally insane where a Swiss psychologist taking up her new post is immediately faced with suspicious happenings. A link between the killings and the asylum soon becomes apparent when one inmate’s DNA shows up at a crime scene. Throw in the involvement of one of France’s wealthiest men and the suicide of several teenagers some years before and you have here a well formed and intricate plot line, to which can be added some interesting and complex characters who I think will attract your interest every bit as much as the story line. Mind you I have to venture that the antics of the young psychologist in satisfying her curiosity, and in so doing putting herself in harms-way, does beggar belief a bit. The author does however make a good fist of building the suspense and creating an atmospheric novel. Without giving too much away, it is fitting that the harsh environment has a role to play right to the end. As to the ending, some good thrillers I find struggle to deliver an ending to match the rest of the book, and while the ending here is not a let-down, it is not the books strongest aspect.Published in France in 2011 (English translation 2013), where it proved a bestseller, this is the first novel from French thriller writer Bernard Minier. He has since written a second novel featuring the same police commandant (not yet in translation), and I look forward to that in time. 3.5 stars out of 5 from me.
    • 4/5
      THE FROZEN DEAD is a compulsively readable mystery/thriller with an alluring lead investigator in Commandant Martin Servaz of Toulouse. Martin is dogged, clever, thinks out of the box, and isn’t afraid to take intuitive leaps. He’s also a divorced workaholic on the cusp of forty with a seventeen year old daughter, Margot, and a penchant for quoting maxims in Latin. His team consists of seven, six men and one woman. Martin’s bright young things are his assistant Vincent Esperandieu, and new recruit Samira Cheung.Vincent is married with a five year old daughter, is a bit of a hypochondriac, Manga fan, tech geek. With his voice, taste in clothing, and mannerisms many suspect him of being bisexual which has caused him some difficulty on the squad. Charlene is Vincent’s stunningly beautiful wife; art gallery owner and seven months pregnant with their second child. They’ve asked Martin to be the baby’s god-father.Samira is the product of a Chinese father and French-Moroccan mother. Samira is a whip smart odd duck who plays up her uniqueness with her dress and manner. Captain Irene Ziegler of the gendarmerie is Martin’s fellow investigator on the case. Irene, with her tall good looks, motorcycle (even in the winter), and sporty life style is often described as an Amazon. She’s also intelligent and as determined to solve the case as Martin.Catherine D’Humieres is the public prosecutor for Saint-Martin. Brilliant, ambitious, and intimidating, Catherine and Martin have worked together before. She thinks highly of his skills and respects him.Diane Berg A Swiss forensic psychologist who begins her position at Wargnier Psychiatric Institute just as events start. The Wargnier Institute is unique in Europe; aggressive and psychopathic, those considered the most dangerous murderers in Europe are housed here. The Pyrenees-Comminges region is isolated, insular, starkly beautiful, and forbidding. It’s also the perfect setting to give readers the heebie jeebies. There are many more characters but for me these were the primary ones and/or those most likely to return. The mystery, the characters, and the setting all combined to keep me glued, guessing, and tense. However, there were a few problems I have to mention. The beginning felt stiff, the translation or my need to shift gears? Either way it took a bit to get into but once it happened I was a goner.Unresolved sub-plots. There were some fairly prominent issues left unresolved leaving a mild dissatisfaction. Are readers to presume each situations conclusion by their last mention? Will they appear and be closed in the next book? Who knows and that’s my problem.The attention and time given to a specific character. Was this in preparation for a future book? It makes sense because otherwise it’s too much once it’s all said and done unless there is an ulterior reason.It’s looonnngggg. Judicious editing could have whittled it down a bit without affecting the integrity.THE FROZEN DEAD is compulsively readable with interesting characters and a labyrinthine mystery sure to keep readers speculating and on edge. Esperandieu is to be thanked for introducing me to some new musicians, in particular the song he listens to in the epilogue. The private lives of the major characters become just as engrossing as the mystery adding to their believability; no cookie cut-outs here. The epilogue has served its purpose, leaving me extremely curious and looking forward to Martin and his team’s next outing.Reviewed for Miss Ivy's Book Nook & Manic Readers
    • 4/5
      Inspector Servaz is not happy to be called off the violent murder of a homeless man to investigate the mutilation of a horse even if it happens to be the favourite animal of a multi-millionaire. However, the crime is so bizarre , he becomes intrigued despite himself – the beheaded corpse of the horse has been left suspended from a cable car terminus at a power plant. Despite the obvious fact that this would have required a great deal of effort, the guards at the plant claim to have no idea how the horse got up there. As Servaz digs further into the horse and its owners, it becomes clear that all of this is somehow linked to a nearby physichiatric hospital which houses some of the most notorious serial killers in Toulouse as well as to a series of teenaged suicides that occurred years earlier.The Frozen Dead is the debut novel by French author Bernard Minier and it is dark, atmospheric and chilling. Set in the Pyrenees in the dead of winter, cold, in both character and weather, plays an important role throughout. The characters, themselves, are well-drawn and believable. The story begins slowly, giving the reader time to appreciate the strange nature of the crime but quickly builds in tension and red herrings until the explosive denouement. This is the kind of tale that, once started, is almost impossible to put down so be warned, this is a fairly long book clocking in at almost 500 pages, so be prepared for a couple of sleepless night.