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Fox Evil

by Minette Walters

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Pan Books (2003), Edition: Unabridged, Paperback, 576 pages

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Langatmige Geschichte ohne echte Höhepunkte: James Lockyer-Fox, ein Colonel im Ruhestand, kommt seit dem rätselhaften Tod seiner Frau nicht zur Ruhe. Grund hierfür ist weniger seine Einsamkeit als vielmehr permanenter Psychoterror, deren Urheber er selbst anfangs in seinen Kindern sieht, die ihm die Schuld am Tod ihrer Mutter geben. Eine entscheidendere Rolle spielt jedoch eine angebliche Augenzeugin aus der Nachbarschaft, die den vermeintlichen Mord zum Anlass nimmt, sich für ihre jahrelange Nichtbeachtung bei der Familie zu rächen. Der Colonel findet einzig bei seinem Anwalt und Freund Mark Ankerton sowie seiner erst kürzlich entdeckten Enkeltochter Unterstützung, durch die er seine scheinbar unwürdigen Kinder enterben will.

Mehr soll an dieser Stelle nicht verraten werden, obwohl die Auflösung der Geschichte einen auch nicht gerade vom Stuhl haut. Es wird wohl auch so ganz gut ersichtlich, dass diese Story nicht allzu viel mit einem Krimi zu tun hat. Es geht in erster Linie um Intrigen, falsche Anschuldigungen, Rufmord usw.. Eingebettet ist dies alles in ein recht gewöhnungsbedürftiges, fremdartiges englisches Provinzumfeld, in dem es ständig um solch spannende Themen wie das Pro und Contra der Fuchsjagd oder um jahrhundertealte Landersitzungsrechte geht.

Nachdem mich die "Bildhauerin" absolut begeistert hat, dachte ich mir, dass ich mit einem weiteren Buch von Minette Walters nichts falsch machen könnte. Leider war das ein Irrtum. In der Hoffnung auf einen ordentlichen Krimi wurde ich hier nur mit einer (vielleicht eher auf das weibliche Publikum abzielenden) Klatsch- und Tratschgeschichte enttäuscht.
  r1hard | Nov 22, 2009 |
It was a tricky plot, I got lost a few times but in the end it all came together. I was fascinated by Wolfie he seemed so pathetic. Fox however was not realistic. A bit too dark for my taste but it is unquestionably superb writing. ( )
  hazelle123 | Nov 17, 2009 |
Only on page 57 but, already the myriad dates have me reeling - perhaps I should follow my goats review - i.e. she tore the page I was reading out of the book - and move on to something better. However,I am only in the mood for light reading, so will try - not too hard - to come to terms with the dates, and just read it as fill in.
Finished it today. Plot and ending a bit disappointing but, in the wake of Mimi Latt, the use of language in the storytelling and the lack of inconsistencies made it a joy to read ( )
  lizziemc | Oct 11, 2009 |
I liked the way the author took very disparate people and scenarios and brought them together. She kept Fox Evil particularly shrouded until the end. And that in a way, was her undoing. In the end, I didn’t believe that this guy who had no connection to James, would harbor a grudge so fierce, for so long. James’s senile and vicious housekeeper thought he was her son. He played to that and got her to steal from the house and pass along details that only a closely connected person would know. Then he paid two women in the area to make anonymous phone calls to James accusing him of being the father of his daughter’s baby. He did this because years ago, he had an affair with his then teenaged daughter, Elizabeth, and Ailsa had treated him well, but eventually ran him off because of his actions with Elizabeth. In the present, he also wants to throw doubt into Nancy’s true parentage – is it him or is it James? The little kid Wolfie was kind of a weird distraction.

But in the end, there was another villain behind the menacing figure of Fox Evil – the husband of one of the women who made the anonymous, accusatory calls. He was running a drug and theft ring with Fox Evil. They met, purely by coincidence, and the husband was struck w/how much he looked like James’s estranged son that he thought he could fool the old housekeeper and score big.
  Bookmarque | Jun 13, 2009 |
hunting, adoption, travelers ( )
  Kaethe | May 22, 2008 |
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0399150544, Hardcover)

Minette Walters's ninth novel, Fox Evil, set in the seemingly bucolic English countryside, establishes a blistering new standard for contemporary suspense.

When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in nightclothes and with bloodstains on the ground near her body, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. A coroner's investigation deems it death by natural causes, but the gossip surrounding James refuses to go away.

Friendless and alone, James and his reclusive behavior begins to alarm his attorney, whose concern deepens when he discovers that his client has become the victim of a relentless campaign accusing him of far worse than the death of his wife. James is unwilling to fight the allegations, choosing instead to devote his energies to a desperate search for the illegitimate granddaughter who may prove his savior as he battles for his name-and his life.

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