The Memory Man (A Eurocrimes Thriller) (An Ash and Varg Thriller)

by Steven Savile

Cross-border investigators Peter Ash and Frankie Varg team up to solve a case when a bunch of gruesome murders are linked with a bizarre note in this hard-hitting thriller.

When a newly-appointed Catholic bishop disappears shortly after receiving a macabre gift in the post - a severed human tongue - the Vatican calls in Peter Ash of the European Crime Division to help. Enclosed with the package was a bizarre note: Memini Bonn. I remember Bonn.

At the same time, Ash's Swedish counterpart Frankie Varg is investigating the murder of a prominent politician. When it transpires that the two cases are linked, the pair team up to become enmeshed in a baffling investigation where nothing is as it first appears. What exactly is the significance of Bonn? And who is so determined to unleash those carefully buried memories.?

• ISBN10: 0727888420
• ISBN13: 9780727888426
• Publish Date: 31 October 2018
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
• Imprint: Severn House
• Edition: Main
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 288
• Language: English

Reviews

[Jeff Sexton]

Excellent Memory. This is the first book in a new police mystery series, centered on a Eurocrimes Division with authority and agents spread throughout Europe, including a United Kingdom in the midst of the Brexit split. It is intensely dark - we open with a politician being tortured and murdered, and it really doesn't get any brighter from there. But also very good - I'm no fan of cops (being American and seeing what they get away with here), but Ash and Varg are shown to be good people approaching the case from different perspectives with the same end goal: solve the crime, period. Truly one of the best mysteries I've read in quite a while, and the dark and grit is one of the reasons for this. Yes, the reader gets a sense early on of what the scope of the mystery likely is, but the way Savile pulls it all together and throws in just enough reveals along the way, with nearly earth shattering (and so very tragic if based on anything remotely similar in real life) reveals in the last 10%, certainly for our heroes. There is enough backstory to both Ash and Varg that could merit a few prequel books, and there is enough potential here that by the end of the book, when the two *finally* meet, this reader was genuinely hoping for a Book 2.