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Five is definitely not a book for the faint-hearted, but Ursula Archer delivers great suspense, unexpected plot twists, and multi-dimensional characters in this international bestseller.
A woman's corpse is discovered in a meadow. A strange combination of letters and numbers has been tattooed on the soles of her feet.
Detective inspector Beatrice Kaspary from the local murder squad quickly identifies the digits as map coordinates. These lead to a series of gruesome discoveries as she and her colleague Florin Wenninger embark on a bloody trail – a modern-day scavenger hunt using GPS navigation devices to locate hidden caches.
The "owner" of these unofficial, unpublished geocaches is a highly calculating and elusive fiend who leaves his victims' body-parts sealed in plastic bags, complete with riddles that culminate in a five-stage plot. Kaspary herself becomes an unwilling pawn in the perpetrator's game of cat and mouse as she risks all to uncover the motives behind the murderer's actions.
A woman's corpse is discovered in a meadow. A strange combination of letters and numbers has been tattooed on the soles of her feet.
Detective inspector Beatrice Kaspary from the local murder squad quickly identifies the digits as map coordinates. These lead to a series of gruesome discoveries as she and her colleague Florin Wenninger embark on a bloody trail – a modern-day scavenger hunt using GPS navigation devices to locate hidden caches.
The "owner" of these unofficial, unpublished geocaches is a highly calculating and elusive fiend who leaves his victims' body-parts sealed in plastic bags, complete with riddles that culminate in a five-stage plot. Kaspary herself becomes an unwilling pawn in the perpetrator's game of cat and mouse as she risks all to uncover the motives behind the murderer's actions.
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3.0
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Steve White
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December 9, 2014
This seemed like a perfect match for me. I geocache, and I like murder mystery/suspense genre titles. But... I'll admit the geocache to catch a murderer aspect was unique. There is a brief overview of geocaching and terms so if you don't know anything about the hobby, don't worry about being lost. While this book uses this as a vehicle for the plot it isn't an overwhelming part of the story. The plot itself was fairly straight forward and I had the villain worked out early on. The story progresses in a linear fashion with no real twists or unexpected turns. The characters don't add very much to this story for me. They are hard to empathize with and lack warmth and depth. There are several fringe characters who really add nothing to the story except for page length. The pace of this story was somewhat slow. I was hoping for more of a page turning rush fueled by trying to solve clues quickly and that just wasn't there. .
About the author
URSULA ARCHER is a science journalist and an award-winning author of YA and children's books. Five is her first adult mystery. She lives in Vienna, Austria, with her family.
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