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Eldonita je 22-a de aŭgusto 2016 de Amazon Crossing.

ISBN:: 978-1-5039-3711-6
Numero OCLC:: 943685715

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Young, lovely Norwegian Agnes Gerner is waging a dangerous and secret fight. Outwardly, she is a devoted Nazi sympathizer engaged to a prominent businessman. In fact, she is part of an underground resistance doing everything to win the war against the Germans. The only hope she has of being reunited with the man she truly loves—who serves under the code name “Pilgrim”—is if the Nazis are defeated. Of course, there’s no guarantee that she’ll be alive when that happens. Many years later, three sets of remains are found in a popular Oslo forest - two adults and a child. Despite his boss’s call to not spend extra time on the old case, Detective Tommy Bergmann cannot help but dig deeper, especially as he uncovers connections to a more recent murder. As he unravels the secrets of the past, it becomes clear that everything is permissible in war - and that …

Young, lovely Norwegian Agnes Gerner is waging a dangerous and secret fight. Outwardly, she is a devoted Nazi sympathizer engaged to a prominent businessman. In fact, she is part of an underground resistance doing everything to win the war against the Germans. The only hope she has of being reunited with the man she truly loves—who serves under the code name “Pilgrim”—is if the Nazis are defeated. Of course, there’s no guarantee that she’ll be alive when that happens. Many years later, three sets of remains are found in a popular Oslo forest - two adults and a child. Despite his boss’s call to not spend extra time on the old case, Detective Tommy Bergmann cannot help but dig deeper, especially as he uncovers connections to a more recent murder. As he unravels the secrets of the past, it becomes clear that everything is permissible in war - and that only those who reject love can come out victorious.

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Stephanie Jane recenzis The Last Pilgrim de Gard Sveen

Not as compelling as I had hoped

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The Last Pilgrim is a dual timeline novel which jumps frequently between 1940s wartime Norway and a 2003 police investigation into bodies believed buried during that war. Initially this made it difficult for me to keep track of who everybody was and I am not sure that the device worked for me in this book. I felt more that the resulting story failed to be either a rich historical novel or atmospheric crime fiction, instead falling somewhere between these two genres. Characters are not particularly fleshed out or detailed although it did make a change that our tortured-soul police detective, Tommy Bergmann, isn't an alcoholic. He's a wifebeater.

Bergmann zips across to Sweden and Germany at the drop of a hat trying to unravel the historic mystery. There's a lot of straw-clutching and giving away of confidential information and I did struggle to follow all the twists and turns as …

The Last Pilgrim is a dual timeline novel which jumps frequently between 1940s wartime Norway and a 2003 police investigation into bodies believed buried during that war. Initially this made it difficult for me to keep track of who everybody was and I am not sure that the device worked for me in this book. I felt more that the resulting story failed to be either a rich historical novel or atmospheric crime fiction, instead falling somewhere between these two genres. Characters are not particularly fleshed out or detailed although it did make a change that our tortured-soul police detective, Tommy Bergmann, isn't an alcoholic. He's a wifebeater.

Bergmann zips across to Sweden and Germany at the drop of a hat trying to unravel the historic mystery. There's a lot of straw-clutching and giving away of confidential information and I did struggle to follow all the twists and turns as readers are often kept in the dark or only given cryptic comments to work with. The denouement is ultimately satisfying, but I wasn't as impressed with the journey as I thought I would be considering the prizes The Last Pilgrim has won.