Unanswered Cries by Thomas French

Unanswered Cries by Thomas French



Unanswered Cries by Thomas French

Summary

Thomas French's UNANSWERED CRIES is a classic in the true misdeed genre because he presents the enquiry of Gregory's murder with a thoroughness which requires neither fervent exposition neither elaborate interpretations. The opinionated policeman chief, the cautious investigating policeman sergeant, the persistent young man ally and family, and eventually, the murderer are so expertly woven into the narrative that you sense the underlying complexity of their lives. The killing of Karen Gregory is simply another layer, an unnecessary level of complexity that they are compelled to deal with. In this publication, French accomplishes the rather uncommon distinction of demonstrating the senselessness of the violence we do to one another without approaching out and actually calling it senseless. In reading UNANSWERED CRIES, you never get a definitive reason as to why Karen Gregory was killed. The usual motives are gladly accessible and just as gladly dismissed. Part of this has to do with the man finally ascribed with her murder. He was in that amorphous “usual supposes” assembly that includes relatives, associates and neighbors. In the end, the detail that the clues was all circumstantial—no one part of hard evidence linking the suspect to the misdeed—farther best features the senselessness of the misdeed itself. Did fairness get the right man? The circumstantial clues is clues nonetheless and, in the skillful production of scribe Thomas French, is conclusive evidence. (Rhodes, Richard, 2000) But French, and finally the policeman, are aided by an curiosity in the events surrounding the case. The man suspect and convicted of the killing supplied the only eyewitness recount of a man he asserted left Karen Gregory's dwelling just after her murder. More than a dozen people perceived her shout, but none called the police. Some rationalized away the bawl, telling themselves it was nothing. Others were anxious, not certain they should get involved. Karen's body was not discovered until nearly a day and a half later. His account of seeing that man and the dialogue he had with him altered as time went on. But the remarkable oddity is that the physical description he provided bore an uncanny resemblance to him. It gives a new rotate to the cliché that he was a criminal who liked to be caught. (French, Thomas, 1991) Beyond the cliché drawn from from “psycho-babble”, the senseless self-incrimination in a senseless misdeed forces the book; reader to look beyond the killing of Karen Gregory and ponder killing and violence on a broader scale. Even the murders and violence we hear about which have a foundation of rational excuses become totally senseless acts when examined closely—which justice supposedly does. Even society sanctioned murder—war—has alternatives and can be avoided. But when we look at a Karen Gregory murder or the thousands of other murders of individuals by individuals, we look for the objective the murderer was attempting to achieve, even if it dips into that murky real of “psychological ...