‘Saturday’ was a rich and dense storm of events, which principally introduced the main characters of ‘The fear eater’.
Let’s begin with the detectives: DCI James Murphy and DCI Roger Clarkson. Our two sleuths have longer worked together; they perfectly know each other, and they dealt with several crimes and murderers. Although James and Roger have teamed up for a long time, they are quite different. James is clearly a rational and pondering person who becomes a man of action when it’s strictly needed; he leads the investigation without immediately jumping to conclusion and tries sensibly to put all the pieces of the puzzle together. The arrest of a suspect must happen only when the accused bloke guiltiness is rationally demonstrated by the proofs gathered during the investigation. Roger, contrarily, is pure action; he’s not a contemplative and pondering guy. Observing and analysing should come before taking any action which might end up being wrong and causing useless troubles. He’s impatient and wants to snatch the culprit. The lack of patience is slowed down by James numerous times. Although these different attitudes, they balance each other by creating a perfect and well-working duo of detectives. We, then, have another central character: Don. Don is the most intimate friend of Ivonne; he knows a lot of her and strongly believes in their friendship. Is he very fond of her – like brothers and sisters – or is he in deep love with Ivonne? Very hard to say. I like to think that Don might have been in love with Ivonne, and so might Ivonne. A sweet relationship based on mutual feelings and deep emotions. They had very much similar tough lives, though; family’s tragedy and depression fell on Ivonne’s life as a carpenter’s axe on a log, leading her to undertake the path of psychological treatment. When she thought of having fixed her mental condition, the profound and resurfacing remorse of her son’s suicide brought her back to darkness. Don’s life is an intriguing mystery; we basically don’t know anything about him, but – by Sally’s words – he was kind and good-mannered (he once helped Ralph, Sally’s two years old son, do you remember?), which might lead us to guess that he could have had a regular life - maybe with a family? What we definitely get from the story is that Don is a man of principles and values; he really believes in friendship, love and respect. He doesn’t think twice to run after Ivonne’s killer and seek for justice, even though he decides to carry out it independently without the help of the police. We finally discover the real nature of Mark: he is the bad guy; he is the killer; he is ‘the fear eater’. The mentioned parcel is nothing else than a patient of him, kidnapped and rapidly delivered. Mark uses his job for attracting people who suffer from phobias. Others’ fears are Mark food. The more he feels the fear of his victims, the more he feels satisfied and full. One question may pop into your mind: wasn’t Mark publishing academic articles on magnetic fields? How comes he has patients? Enigmas are the soul of crime stories, don’t brood on that too much. The solution will be unravelled! Rita personally is my favourite character; she acts in the shadow. Even though she seems to be absent and secondary, her work fundamentally helps the detectives. Rita is the exhibit officer, which means that proofs and exhibits collected on the crime scenes are objects of her interest and classification; she mainly passes her time in laboratory by examining and recording data. Although she always has a lot of job to do, she never refuses to help James and Roger during their investigation, even when she is not supposed to. The third chapter ‘Sunday’ has been released on Wattpad for free. ‘The fear eater’ waits for you, just CLICK HERE and enjoy the reading. Take care, readers, and see you soon!
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