Reviews for Entanglement

The average rating for Entanglement based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-11-28 00:00:00 Joseph D Deacon 4.5 rounded up; longer review here. I can honestly say that this book is one of the best crime novels I've ever read -- not just this year, but in a seriously long time. My collection of Bitter Lemon Press novels is also growing and kudos to these people for constantly bringing new and for the most part, outstandingly fine crime fiction to readers of this genre. I don't know how they manage to bring out winners each time, but keep up the good work. In Warsaw, a very weary public prosecutor Teodor Szacki is finding life rather tiresome when on a Sunday home with his wife and little daughter he receives a call that he has to come in to work. Szacki, in his mid-30s, "an underpaid civil servant" whose wife is also a lawyer and similarly underpaid, is not in the best of moods to begin with, he's sent to what used to be a monastery, now a "red brick chimera, a cross between a church, a monastery and Gargamel's palace," where aside from the church in the building, there are also sublet spaces and rooms available for rent by various organizations. One such set of rooms has been rented by a psychotherapist for himself and four of his patients, where over the weekend, they are engaged in Family Constellation Therapy, founded originally by German psychologist and philosopher Bert Hellinger. They are there hoping to resolve some of their personal issues; one of the attendees, businessman Henryk Talek, endures a particularly grueling session and afterward ends up dead with a meat skewer in his eye. Very much overworked, Szacki is hating the idea of having to add this case to his current list; to him it's either a badly-botched burglary or a case of "one body, four suspects-all sober and well-to-do," as the policeman working for Szacki puts it. Yet the more Szacki investigates, the more he comes up with things that just don't fit right and which create more questions than answers. Meanwhile, in the process of trying to fill in the holes, what he doesn't know is that there is someone taking stock of his every move. The punch and pizazz he invests in his characters to make them believable also follow suit in the overall writing throughout the book; they keep the action moving, and there are places where you can't help but smirk at Miloszewski's insertion of wry humor. But there is nothing at all funny about this story, where the tension grows not only in terms of Szacki's personal life, but in the murder investigation as it moves toward an incredible ending, as it dawns on you that even in a free society, being free and unfettered may just be a mirage. Super book, one I definitely and most highly recommend. I don't believe I've read anything like it before. If you want a crime read well above the norm, something utterly sophisticated, this is the one.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-10-11 00:00:00 Paul Hoare Description: Radio 4 continues its journey across Europe exploring the best contemporary literature. In this hugely successful Polish crime thriller, a long suffering State Prosecutor finds himself trapped in a post-Communist limbo land of half-truths and secrets. Will he prove himself to be a redoubtable seeker of the truth or will he compromise? A perplexing murder reveals tantalising glimpses of links to the old regime. The writer Zygmunt Miloszewski is a leading Polish writer. The Teodor Szacki series is a best seller in Poland. Antonia Lloyd Jones is an award winning translator of Polish fiction and chair of the Translators Association. Dramatised for radio by the writer, critic and journalist, Mark Lawson. About Reading Europe: Europe is central to our lives - we go on holiday to Europe, we do business in Europe, we watch in amazement as the various states try to grapple with migration in Europe. Over the next year or so we will be engaged in the debate as to whether or not we stay in Europe. But how much do we know this continent's countries and, in particular, how much do we know about what they're reading? Over the course of two years, Reading Europe will travel from Calais to Istanbul. Through dramatisations, readings and essays, Reading Europe and Front Row will explore what Europe is writing, publishing and reading - and why. Cast: Teodor Szacki................Bryan Dick Olga Kuzniecow.............Christine Bottomley Cezary Rudzki................David Crellin Monika Grzelka/ Hanna Kwiatowska........Rachel Austin Barbara Jarczyk/ radio news reader.........Alexandra Mathie Euzebius Kaim...............Dermot Daly Henryk Telak/ Father Pazcek...............Glenn Cunningham Part 1/2: The Reflection Room: When Henryk Telak is found dead with a meat skewer in his eye during a Family Constellation Therapy weekend, State Prosecutor Szacki and his police colleague Olga, Kuzniecow, have to work together to deduce who killed the man and why. An apparent total absence of motive is compounded when attractive young news reporter Monika Grezlka, shows a more than professional interest in Szacki. 2/2: Antigone in Warsaw: Szacki struggles with his burgeoning feelings for attractive journalist Monika Grzelka and the increasingly complex background of the murder victim. The final clues fall into place when he stages his own Family Constellation Therapy session with all the suspects.