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165 of 167 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Like other Peter Robinson thrillers, this is a jolly good read. Unfortunately I had already read it as 'Caedmon's Song' and it is wrong that Amazon and/or the seller do not clarify this circumstance before such a book is bought. It would appear this is not the only instance of the same Peter Robinson book being sold with different titles.
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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
A psychological thriller from the creator of Inspector Banks
23 Sep 2004
Format:Paperback
This, the fifth novel by Peter Robinson, was originally published in England as Caedmon's Song. It is not part of Robinson's Inspector Alan Banks series but is a suspenseful psychological study of a young university student, Kirsten, who is brutally attacked and mutilated and must start her life over again with a new, darker perspective. Interwoven with Kirsten's story is the story of Martha, a mysterious young woman who arrives in Whitby, on the Yorkshire coast, intent on a grim pursuit of her own.
Gradually the two story lines converge in a fascinating narrative pattern. This is a haunting psychological suspense story that is difficult to put down. The author is a master of describing the Yorkshire scenery, here leaving behind the dales of his earlier novels to depict a brooding and picturesque coastal town that previously inspired Bram Stoker while he was writing Dracula.
Gradually the two story lines converge in a fascinating narrative pattern. This is a haunting psychological suspense story that is difficult to put down. The author is a master of describing the Yorkshire scenery, here leaving behind the dales of his earlier novels to depict a brooding and picturesque coastal town that previously inspired Bram Stoker while he was writing Dracula.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
A One Sitting Read
27 Mar 2006
Format:Paperback
A young final-year English student is viciously attacked and left for dead by her assailant in a deserted city park as she is walking back to her flat from a end-of-year student party. There are practically no clues and the victim has little memory of what happened. Peter Robinson creates here a wondrously psychological and suspenseful tale of one woman's attempt at trying to put the pieces of her shattered life back together and her quest for revenge.
This novel is rich in detail. Normal families and tourists are contrasted with the victims whose lives will never be the same again. Mr. Robinson makes the Yorkshire coast come alive. One can taste the bad food that England is famous for. His attention to detail is beautiful. There are "orderly riots of roses." A character's [Keith's] eyes "really were a sharp blue, as if he had spent so much time staring into blue skies and oceans that they had taken their color from the water and air." And Robinson describes the moon as "almost three-quarters full. . . It seemed to float there like an incandescent jellyfish just below the water's surface."
Mr. Robinson artfully weaves together the stories of three women-- Martha, Kirsten and Susan-- into a page-turner climax, and makes interesting observations along the way on Thomas Hardy. It's obvious-- at least in this case-- that revenge is often neither pretty nor precise, but oh, so final.
You'll read this novel in one sitting.
This novel is rich in detail. Normal families and tourists are contrasted with the victims whose lives will never be the same again. Mr. Robinson makes the Yorkshire coast come alive. One can taste the bad food that England is famous for. His attention to detail is beautiful. There are "orderly riots of roses." A character's [Keith's] eyes "really were a sharp blue, as if he had spent so much time staring into blue skies and oceans that they had taken their color from the water and air." And Robinson describes the moon as "almost three-quarters full. . . It seemed to float there like an incandescent jellyfish just below the water's surface."
Mr. Robinson artfully weaves together the stories of three women-- Martha, Kirsten and Susan-- into a page-turner climax, and makes interesting observations along the way on Thomas Hardy. It's obvious-- at least in this case-- that revenge is often neither pretty nor precise, but oh, so final.
You'll read this novel in one sitting.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
tale of two victims
29 Oct 2004
Format:Paperback
THE FIRST CUT is an early work from Peter Robinson sans Alan Banks. It is a psychological thriller that alternates the narrative between two surviving victims of "the Student Slasher", a serial killer who brutalizes female university students in a grisly manner. This is tightly woven, suspenseful story of revenge told in tandem from two perspectives until they merge for a satisfying climax.
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