Top 3 Thriller

I have now read the 150 thriller in my life, I rarely had so captivated by a book. The story of a doctor who goes to a small village, because he wants to put the past behind him, to be there obtained after years of just this, is neither new nor innovative. But what is the appeal of the book?

1. Simon Beckett creates an eerie atmosphere as the doctor who has not really integrated by years in the village seems to be there the serial killer of the inhabitants of this village community, then the preacher who saw it all come and the murders as God's punishment sees. In short, it is in the depths dragged into a church, where everything always seems to be in order.
2. I form of the main character! Very unusual even to allow the main character to tell the story from the first person. This go certain storylines of the book one even closer.
3. The plot per se, which is neither foreseeable nor any long-winded. Also super constructed and also to the end the chemistry of the book is designed for the ultimate adrenalin rush.
4. The language is very diverse and colorful and talks to the technical details (eg autopsy) not longer than necessary and the brutality is not an exaggeration in the sense of "grandstanding"

If you like Karin Slaughter, Simon Beckett is love. Short a serial killer novel in the atmosphere of a village at its finest!