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`Fast paced and slick, this is the first in what could well be an outstanding series.' --Laura Wilson, GUARDIAN
`An exceptionally strong start ... Carrigan and Miller are obviously enduring characters and London is painted on a new canvas, true to its time ... Do not miss this one.' --IT'S A CRIME
`Sherez does a masterful job with a particularly haunting plot ... a clever, multi-layered beginning to a promising new series.' --Henry Sutton, DAILY MIRROR
`A superior novel, well written and plotted, with a convincing backdrop about a continent that rarely features in crime fiction.' --Marcel Berlins, THE TIMES
`Intriguing and well-written ... a salutary read, highly recommended.'
--Jessica Mann, LITERARY REVIEW
`An exceptionally strong start ... Carrigan and Miller are obviously enduring characters and London is painted on a new canvas, true to its time ... Do not miss this one.' --IT'S A CRIME
`Sherez does a masterful job with a particularly haunting plot ... a clever, multi-layered beginning to a promising new series.' --Henry Sutton, DAILY MIRROR
`A superior novel, well written and plotted, with a convincing backdrop about a continent that rarely features in crime fiction.' --Marcel Berlins, THE TIMES
`Intriguing and well-written ... a salutary read, highly recommended.'
--Jessica Mann, LITERARY REVIEW
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The first in a striking new police procedural series.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a classy, stylish and troubling thriller from a writer who has over the course of his two previous novels proven he knows how to balance page-turning appeal, great writing and thought-provoking ideas. Before it was Amsterdam, then Greece; now Sherez turns his attention to his home town of London and comes up trumps again - for residents there are the familiar little places and moments that don't make it often enough into novels, and our daily paths are recast with those things from the dark end of the street that we might more happily turn away from. It's a tale, amongst other things, about the experience in the capital of African immigrants, refugees of small wars most of us hardly know about, young men trained to kill in places of heat and light and then set adrift, futureless, in an alien culture: "an unseen army living their lives under the radar, a shadow London of hospital cleaners, dishwashers and street sweepers. A city he passed every day yet never noticed. Invisible because they wanted to be, invisible because we preferred them to be so."
Detectives Carrigan and Miller hunt the murderer of a young Ugandan student through this squalid and sodden city (it's mostly raining, the best its inhabitants can hope for a break enough in the downpour to light another cigarette) while coming to terms with the low-key chaos of their own lives. The first in a series, we learn that Geneva Miller is the daughter of an émigré mother and going through a bitter divorce; Jack Carrigan is rather mysteriously widowed and haunted by decisions made on a post-Uni trip to Africa that left one of his best friends dead. Cautious at first, cast against each other by their commanding officer, slowly they begin to understand each other's silences and wounds in a way that bodes well for the novels to follow. Both their careers are heading in the wrong direction, and as much as anything the book is about reaching a certain point in life - a certain fatal distance from the halcyon days as an undergraduate - and realising that finally your options are much fewer, that some choices you've made really do count forever. There's a sadness to the core of the book, a loneliness, that gives this story a real charge: behind the twists and turns and surprising revelations, there is a sense that something really is at stake here, beyond the desire of the detectives just to solve the case.
With just the right balance between the classic and the modern - the currents of London's lost rivers and the data streams of Facebook and Twitter flow together perfectly here - the author has set a high benchmark for the next book in the series. I'm looking forward to it already.
Detectives Carrigan and Miller hunt the murderer of a young Ugandan student through this squalid and sodden city (it's mostly raining, the best its inhabitants can hope for a break enough in the downpour to light another cigarette) while coming to terms with the low-key chaos of their own lives. The first in a series, we learn that Geneva Miller is the daughter of an émigré mother and going through a bitter divorce; Jack Carrigan is rather mysteriously widowed and haunted by decisions made on a post-Uni trip to Africa that left one of his best friends dead. Cautious at first, cast against each other by their commanding officer, slowly they begin to understand each other's silences and wounds in a way that bodes well for the novels to follow. Both their careers are heading in the wrong direction, and as much as anything the book is about reaching a certain point in life - a certain fatal distance from the halcyon days as an undergraduate - and realising that finally your options are much fewer, that some choices you've made really do count forever. There's a sadness to the core of the book, a loneliness, that gives this story a real charge: behind the twists and turns and surprising revelations, there is a sense that something really is at stake here, beyond the desire of the detectives just to solve the case.
With just the right balance between the classic and the modern - the currents of London's lost rivers and the data streams of Facebook and Twitter flow together perfectly here - the author has set a high benchmark for the next book in the series. I'm looking forward to it already.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
So, I started reading a novel that sounded like a regular police procedural about a murdered student in London and ended up reading about Northern Ugandan politics and warfare, Joseph Kony and child soldiers too.
A Dark Redemption is an excellent, thoroughly well written, crime thriller. The main cop protagonists, DI Carrigan and DS Miller, are very well rounded and complex characters whose back-stories are fed to us sparingly, droplet by droplet. This, together with a fast paced complex plot, made A Dark Redemption a novel which I found very hard to put down.
It is also a novel about how decisions in the past can return to haunt us in the present. I very much enjoyed reading this novel.
A Dark Redemption is an excellent, thoroughly well written, crime thriller. The main cop protagonists, DI Carrigan and DS Miller, are very well rounded and complex characters whose back-stories are fed to us sparingly, droplet by droplet. This, together with a fast paced complex plot, made A Dark Redemption a novel which I found very hard to put down.
It is also a novel about how decisions in the past can return to haunt us in the present. I very much enjoyed reading this novel.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A Dark Redemption starts with Jack Carrigan being called to a small studio flat in central London, where the body of a young student has been discovered.
The method of killing alerts him that this one will not be an ordinary case.
DS Geneva Miller is an ambitious young female detective, who was demoted two years ago because she hit a superior officer. She is now offered the chance of promotion, but only on condition that she spy on DI Carrigan and report to their commanding officer. This sets the book wonderfully, creating a constantly shifting tension between the two main characters, as they both try to solve the murder.
Miller is convinced that the case has its roots in the dead girl's research work at university, but Carrigan thinks this is the work of a serial killer.
The plot takes us to an unknown side of London as the two detectives each follow their own hunches, coming up against each other as often as coming together.
Sherez produces a unique view of London, and I cannot remember ever reading a crime novel that goes so deeply into the strange world of London immigrants' community.
The writing is focused, sharp, and highly evocative. You feel as if you are there, whether it is the busy streets of Queensway or the squats in Peckham, where African illegal immigrants hide.
The two main characters are both original and Miller is one of the most engaging female lead I have encountered in a long time; fussy, independent and shouldering her own personal burden.
The interaction between DI Carrigan and DS Miller is funny, tense and drives the plot forward towards a conclusion I did not see coming at all.
As each chapter unfolds, we feel less sure of ourselves and everything we thought we know about the case is suddenly overturned.
It reminds me a lot of the TV series The Killing and the books of Ian Rankin and Val McDermid.
What set this apart from most crime novels I have read is the quality of the writing and the focus on the emotional toll that murder cases have on the detectives investigating them.
The ending left me totally stunned and yet was very satisfying, both psychologically and dramatically.
If you enjoy pacey, page turning crime novels, I would not hesitate to recommend this book. Just make sure you have plenty of time because once you start it is almost impossible to put down!
The method of killing alerts him that this one will not be an ordinary case.
DS Geneva Miller is an ambitious young female detective, who was demoted two years ago because she hit a superior officer. She is now offered the chance of promotion, but only on condition that she spy on DI Carrigan and report to their commanding officer. This sets the book wonderfully, creating a constantly shifting tension between the two main characters, as they both try to solve the murder.
Miller is convinced that the case has its roots in the dead girl's research work at university, but Carrigan thinks this is the work of a serial killer.
The plot takes us to an unknown side of London as the two detectives each follow their own hunches, coming up against each other as often as coming together.
Sherez produces a unique view of London, and I cannot remember ever reading a crime novel that goes so deeply into the strange world of London immigrants' community.
The writing is focused, sharp, and highly evocative. You feel as if you are there, whether it is the busy streets of Queensway or the squats in Peckham, where African illegal immigrants hide.
The two main characters are both original and Miller is one of the most engaging female lead I have encountered in a long time; fussy, independent and shouldering her own personal burden.
The interaction between DI Carrigan and DS Miller is funny, tense and drives the plot forward towards a conclusion I did not see coming at all.
As each chapter unfolds, we feel less sure of ourselves and everything we thought we know about the case is suddenly overturned.
It reminds me a lot of the TV series The Killing and the books of Ian Rankin and Val McDermid.
What set this apart from most crime novels I have read is the quality of the writing and the focus on the emotional toll that murder cases have on the detectives investigating them.
The ending left me totally stunned and yet was very satisfying, both psychologically and dramatically.
If you enjoy pacey, page turning crime novels, I would not hesitate to recommend this book. Just make sure you have plenty of time because once you start it is almost impossible to put down!
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Ugandan theme in first of a London-based police procedural series
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Hmmm, some suspicious five star reviews, the books ok.
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Published 2 months ago by Huggermugger
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When a body of a young student girl is found murdered in her flat, DI jack Carrigan stepes in to investigate,but he soon realises that this is a complicated case ,involveing some... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Christina
dark throughout
Another duo of police partners hits the spot in this first outing for DI Carrigan and PC Miller, soon to be Acting Sergeant Miller. Geneva Miller is probably the one to watch. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Michael Watson
A great start to a new series - a gritty, gripping tale
If not for a short review of this novel in a national newspaper this book would have passed me by. It won't be to everyone's taste but then this is true of all (crime) novels. Read more
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