Set in Peterborough, the themes of racism, immigration, politics, loss, love and betrayal can be found - although they are not all that we find in the pages of this story.įor me, the pace was set perfectly! Thrusting you full throttle into the story with a great build up and then evening out until you are again grabbed by the throat with a fantastic reveal. well.pretty damn awesome! If that isn't the recipe for a perfect read, I don't know what is! I purchased this book almost 12 months ago and after reading it, I am kicking myself for waiting so long! The cover is stunning, the story is captivating and the characters are. However, I personally wouldn't recommend this audiobook, as I found it a little hard to understand at times. If you want to read something a bit different, you might enjoy this one. They are pretty different in their methods, so they make a good team, in a way. They are both police, working in the hate-crimes division, one male and one female. The main protagonists, Zigic and Ferreira, are an interesting pair also. It's a good look at a part of society most of us don't usually see much of. Add to this the complications added by the fact that the participants and victims are mostly poor, undocumented foreign workers who don't trust the police and can't speak English well, if at all, not to mention victims who don't always remain dead, and you've got a story that will grab your interest to find out what is going on. The story is complex, with several murders that are somehow related, but it's not apparent how. This one, the first of the series, has a lot going for it. In the world of crime and mystery fiction this series is going to be one to watch…certainly when the next one becomes available I shall be knocking hapless book shop goers out of the way in my resolve to obtain a copy…Īlways nice to find a new series to read. There is a high degree of authenticity and an extremely realistic feeling to the whole story. Tightly plotted and intelligently written, with a definite eye towards current affairs, I was intrigued and fascinated by this world of which I know little. You always know you are onto a good thing when you pick up a book during a spare ten minutes then look up dazed an hour or so later and realise you missed your bus….ĭI Zigic and DS Ferreira are the very definition of a perfect yin and yang working detective team – well drawn, intriguing personalities, well rounded backgrounds and sitting well in their surroundings, the reader has two perfect, yet often contradictory, sets of eyes with which to follow the action. So, a debut novel and the start of a new detective series, you may ask, well, do we need anymore? My answer would be a resounding YES especially if they are going to be of this quality and standard. When a man is burnt alive in a suburban garden shed, it brings an unwelcome spotlight on to that world, and two detectives are faced with investigating a murder in a community that has more reason than most not to trust the police. Migrant workers, both legal and illegal, are working in the fields, the factories and the pubs of the town. Thank you so much to Eva Dolan and Alison Hennessey for the copy of this book to review. Hence, I cannot recommend this book, nor will I read any further books in this series. Too little happened and the story as a whole moved far too slowly for me. As a result, I had high expectations and sad to say, that I did not like this book enough to recommend it. Surprisingly the reviews have been good for this book. At times, it felt as if she were lecturing the reader rather than writing a crime/mystery. The author has a tendency to paint the locals as "all bad" & the migrants as the "poor misfortunates". They are even intolerant of the detectives' immigrant heritage.Įven though the immigrants are shown in a better light, other than the main detectives, there are no likeable characters in this book. The locals do not have a shred of decency when it comes to migrants. I had to force myself to keep reading.įar too many descriptions of dilapidated neighbourhoods, the dreary landscape, and bad bad food and/or lack of food for the detectives, gets old. Unfortunately the tag line says it all - "Silence hides the worst crimes" - the investigation goes nowhere for most of the book, as no one is talking. Loved the first few chapters of this book.
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