- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Picador (20 Aug 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330490958
- ISBN-13: 978-0330490955
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.8 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,769,830 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Chief of the Copacabana precinct Espinosa is more than happy to interrupt his paperwork when a terrified young man arrives at the station with a bizarre story. A psychic has predicted that he will commit a murder, it seems, and the prediction has become fact in the young man's mind. It's a case more appropriate for a psychiatrist or philosopher, but, rising to the challenge as usual, Espinosa slowly enters the web of a psychologically conflicted man. As the weather changes and the southwesterly wind - always a sign of dramatic change - starts up, what at first seems like paranoia becomes brutal reality. Two violent murders occur and their only link is the lonely, clever man who has sought Espinosa out a few days earlier for help.
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Chief of the Copacabana precinct Espinosa is more than happy to interrupt his paperwork when a terrified young man arrives at the station with a bizarre story. A psychic has predicted that he will commit a murder, and the prediction has become fact in the young man's mind. It's a case more appropriate for a psychiatrist or philosopher, but there is something that attracts Espinosa to this case. As the weather changes and the southwesterly wind - always a sign of dramatic change - starts up, what at first seems like paranoia becomes brutal reality. Two violent murders occur and their only link is the lonely, clever man who has sort Espinosa out a few days earlier for help.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the 3rd Esponisa book in the series and also the third one I'm reading. Sadly this one's the weakest of the lot. It's also beginning to bother me that Espinosa befriends a woman in each book and then in the following one's they never reappear. Strange.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Southwesterly Wind
I bought this book from the library on a whim. It is supposed to be a thriller, but I wouldn't regard it as a page turner. I expect thrillers to have a pace that gets faster through the book, or at least varies. This is more of a plodder. I didn't have any real interest in any of the characters, some didn't seem to have any real point other than as a love interest.
The only reason I read to the end was to see if it was as predictable as I thought, or if, somehow, the author had a final unexpected twist towards the end.
He didn't. It was pretty predictable from about the quarter mark with nothing unexpected happening, and nothing to stop you putting the book down until tomorrow.
Overall about as unthrilling as you can get.
I bought this book from the library on a whim. It is supposed to be a thriller, but I wouldn't regard it as a page turner. I expect thrillers to have a pace that gets faster through the book, or at least varies. This is more of a plodder. I didn't have any real interest in any of the characters, some didn't seem to have any real point other than as a love interest.
The only reason I read to the end was to see if it was as predictable as I thought, or if, somehow, the author had a final unexpected twist towards the end.
He didn't. It was pretty predictable from about the quarter mark with nothing unexpected happening, and nothing to stop you putting the book down until tomorrow.
Overall about as unthrilling as you can get.
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