Review by Eliezar -- Pancake Money by Finn Bell
Posted: 29 Aug 2018, 08:10
[Following is a volunteer review of "Pancake Money" by Finn Bell.]
3 out of 4 stars
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An intriguing crime novel, filled with suspense that will keep you glued to the edge of your seat till you get to the last page.
Detectives Bobby Ress and Pollo Latu are an inseparable twosome with loving families. Their love for solving murder cases, which could claim their lives at any point, could not be measured. With their Families not too pleased with the work they do, Bobby and Pollo still continue with the zeal of chasing criminals and bringing them to face the law no matter the danger they face or the risk involved.
When some killings started with the murders of some Catholic priests being murdered in a church-kind-medieval-times pattern, these detectives were on the case and believed killings like these would be for power, money, or sex but why involving the church. What could these priests have done to deserve such horrible deaths?
Bobby gets to unravel the mystery of the holy man killer but loses his beloved partner in the cause.
This novel is about love, hate, sexual abuse, vengeance… and the way the mind expresses or reacts to it.
Pancake Money is a psychology thriller and with the help of a psychotic lecturer in the novel, Ann Bowlby, who throws in life at every point in her forensic psychology classes, there is never a dull moment as your brain remains active with various investigative thoughts. With the killings of the retired priests, same patterned murders leaving behind warnings and monuments, torture deaths to which one would feel were gangster killings but for the medieval killing patterns, the holy man killer committed intelligent, careful and controlled murders.
Ann Bowlby’s teachings on the psychology of human behavior exposes lots of things to the main character, Bobby Ress. Especially the teachings on Needs that could lead to Pain when not gotten.
"The difference between the living and the dead…Needs.
Everything that is alive has Needs.
To stay alive you need to meet your Needs.
If you don’t meet your Needs you die.
******
Not meeting your Needs gives you pain.
Too much pain will change you.
You will do whatever you can to stop the pain."
Teachings about understanding the human mind, the brain and how it controls and reliefs the mind when in extreme pain. If the mind is inflicted with pain (as pain is the primary motivator of human behavior), it yields consequences… too much pain inflicted on living things, especially human beings, yield unintended negative consequences borne as a result of depression, post-traumatic stress, or addiction.
This novel is too descriptive for my liking but what would be the essence of crime scenes if not for knowing every detail as detailed it can be.
Pancake Money as this novel is titled does not really do justice to this story as it turns out to be too light for the kind of weight the story holds.
A good and really interesting read, not for the faint-hearted.
I rate this Finn Bell's work 3 out of 4 stars as it is a nicely put together, intelligent, fine piece but it is not professionally edited as very few but simple grammatical errors could still be spotted.
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Pancake Money
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3 out of 4 stars
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An intriguing crime novel, filled with suspense that will keep you glued to the edge of your seat till you get to the last page.
Detectives Bobby Ress and Pollo Latu are an inseparable twosome with loving families. Their love for solving murder cases, which could claim their lives at any point, could not be measured. With their Families not too pleased with the work they do, Bobby and Pollo still continue with the zeal of chasing criminals and bringing them to face the law no matter the danger they face or the risk involved.
When some killings started with the murders of some Catholic priests being murdered in a church-kind-medieval-times pattern, these detectives were on the case and believed killings like these would be for power, money, or sex but why involving the church. What could these priests have done to deserve such horrible deaths?
Bobby gets to unravel the mystery of the holy man killer but loses his beloved partner in the cause.
This novel is about love, hate, sexual abuse, vengeance… and the way the mind expresses or reacts to it.
Pancake Money is a psychology thriller and with the help of a psychotic lecturer in the novel, Ann Bowlby, who throws in life at every point in her forensic psychology classes, there is never a dull moment as your brain remains active with various investigative thoughts. With the killings of the retired priests, same patterned murders leaving behind warnings and monuments, torture deaths to which one would feel were gangster killings but for the medieval killing patterns, the holy man killer committed intelligent, careful and controlled murders.
Ann Bowlby’s teachings on the psychology of human behavior exposes lots of things to the main character, Bobby Ress. Especially the teachings on Needs that could lead to Pain when not gotten.
"The difference between the living and the dead…Needs.
Everything that is alive has Needs.
To stay alive you need to meet your Needs.
If you don’t meet your Needs you die.
******
Not meeting your Needs gives you pain.
Too much pain will change you.
You will do whatever you can to stop the pain."
Teachings about understanding the human mind, the brain and how it controls and reliefs the mind when in extreme pain. If the mind is inflicted with pain (as pain is the primary motivator of human behavior), it yields consequences… too much pain inflicted on living things, especially human beings, yield unintended negative consequences borne as a result of depression, post-traumatic stress, or addiction.
This novel is too descriptive for my liking but what would be the essence of crime scenes if not for knowing every detail as detailed it can be.
Pancake Money as this novel is titled does not really do justice to this story as it turns out to be too light for the kind of weight the story holds.
A good and really interesting read, not for the faint-hearted.
I rate this Finn Bell's work 3 out of 4 stars as it is a nicely put together, intelligent, fine piece but it is not professionally edited as very few but simple grammatical errors could still be spotted.
******
Pancake Money
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
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