The Whisperer, (Paperback)

from Carol420

The Whisperer by Donato Carrisi 4 Stars What's It About? Six severed arms are discovered, arranged in a mysterious circle and buried in a clearing in the woods. Five of them appear to belong to missing girls between the ages of eight and eighteen. The sixth is yet to be identified. Worse still, t...

from suline

Easy reading whodonit. I actually did not figure this one out prematurely, and I always appreciate a story with a surprise. I think this book benefited from translation. No flowery, superfluous language. Just straitforward storytelling. The heroine is definitely someone flawed, that we can relate...

from KarenDuff

I really liked this book. It gripped me from the start, so much so that I actually considered cancelling my plans for the day just so that I could keep reading it. It kept me guessing right to the end, although the one thing I never figured out was the location I had assumed that as the author is...

from austcrimefiction

You sometimes just have to wonder about the bravery of the people who select the blurbs for the front of books. THE WHISPERER, debut book by Italian author Donato Carrisi, comes with the attribution "The most eagerly awaited thriller in the world? It is written by an unknown Italian' Il Giornale"...

from noranydrop2read

This book held so much promise. Translated from the Italian, it suggested an interesting setting, and starting off with six arms found in a field when only five girls have been missing--well, that's gripping. The setting never really coalesces and has none of the details that would make the local...