Nick Quantrill

This is a good, above average police procedural that details the investigation of a cold murder case that is related to other current day crimes.

The novel is a solid police procedural where the characters are interesting and the plot not too farfetched to be believed.

Anna Stone is a disillusioned police officer on a somewhat sort of forced, mutual sabbatical and joins an ex-prison inmate in the quest to solve a cold case murder others would like to remain cold.

Why only three stars? Well, while the novel is quite well, the characters all seem somewhat dour and single layered in their constant seriousness through the novel.

To me, the wonderful thing about policing and crime stories is the broad spectrum that is available to a writer's palette. This novel is dryly serious the entire way through.

Still, it is a decent crime novel.… (más)

Joe Geraghty might not own shares in "Queen's" but sups enough within its walls to be a virtual alckie by the time the novel reaches its denouement, leaving the reader with the impression there was a time when he could have let himself drift down that route. Being raised among Hull's trawling community during its death-throes, robbed of a promising career on the rugby league field by injury, and of his wife in a house fire, as he puts it himself, his work is the only reason to get out of bed of a morning - until the police arrive to point the finger. His surveillance target has been murdered the same night he's been mugged. Coincidence? As it happens, yes, but proving it opens a can of worms hauled straight from a shallow grave.

If you like your Crime stories convoluted and the narration sparse, you won't be disappointed. We'll be seeing more of Joe Geraghty.… (más)