This story cames out of the revelations of the sparky crazy mind of Francis Petrel (C-Bird) who recounts his stay in a mental hospital many years ago, disclosing the unresolved crime of a nurse assistant.
The story line works in different time dimensions a first person account and a third person recount adopting the scheme of a whodunit, where also the perpetrator of a distant past jumps into the recount and commit more crimes hidden in a bunch of crazy men, it also adds a prosecutor, Lucy Jones, who with a very personal interest linked to that same distant past arrives to the mental institution fiercely committed to solve this crime but not in the conventional manner of any police procedural thriller as all potential suspects are crazy men. One longs to get to the ending to find out who was the criminal, but will the tale work that way?, is a true tale or a delusion ? Don't forget that we are listening to a tale of a crazy mind. The plot is ingenious and provoking, helds the reader interest from beginning to end, displays an excellent writing style, so good and colorful that one takes the time devour every word and expression, on the other hand the author makes it way too long and fails to add the expected twist, in my opinion, the ending deserved after so much suspense and tension, but the resolution in no way tarnishes neither the whole story line nor the brilliant narrative that precedes.
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