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British hard-boiled crime at its best --- Deadly Pleasures Year's Best Mysteries 2007 (USA)
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... fantastic characters, a strong setting and watertight plotting. The book is Carter's best yet...
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I opened Maureen Carter's new book with a smile of pleased anticipation at meeting the irrepressible Bev Morriss again. And this fifth book in the series is a terrific, pacy story of a serial killer targeting paedophiles: a murderer who's advertising his killings in the newspapers and drawing an over-eager newspaperman into his macabre web - a web that tangles the innocent as well as the guilty.
Intriguingly woven into the escalating police search for 'The Disposer' is Bev's own complex private life - her loves and hates, and her dreams and disappointments.
As always, Ms Carter's writing is forceful and incisive, and so very very visual. Every setting is believable and vivid, from the Asbo-ridden Churchill housing estate with its tower blocks and concrete tunnels, to the newsroom of the 'Evening News'; from the incident centre of Highgate police station to the streets and restaurants of Bev's own Birmingham itself.
The plot unfolds with consummate skill, and the pace doesn't hesitate for so much as a paragraph. The final denoument is startling.
Readers coming to this book first, will find themselves compelled to go out to buy the earlier ones.
Intriguingly woven into the escalating police search for 'The Disposer' is Bev's own complex private life - her loves and hates, and her dreams and disappointments.
As always, Ms Carter's writing is forceful and incisive, and so very very visual. Every setting is believable and vivid, from the Asbo-ridden Churchill housing estate with its tower blocks and concrete tunnels, to the newsroom of the 'Evening News'; from the incident centre of Highgate police station to the streets and restaurants of Bev's own Birmingham itself.
The plot unfolds with consummate skill, and the pace doesn't hesitate for so much as a paragraph. The final denoument is startling.
Readers coming to this book first, will find themselves compelled to go out to buy the earlier ones.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Bad Press is the fifth outing in the Bev Morriss series and like the predecessors it's a blinder. Carter has a natural ability to write sharp, snappy dialogue with intricate and exciting plots and this does not let you down.
With arrogant reporter Matt Snow being found a little too close for comfort near fresh crime scenes, Bev and the rest of the Highgate team have to establish whether he's a killer or just writing a killer news feature...but as usual Bev has other dramas to contend with and the balance between work issues and personal struggles leads to a fantastic book you really can't put down.
The main accolade with this book is the character development...while Bev never looses her trademark silver tongue and feistiness, we also see a vulnerable and exposed side to her which only further warms the reader to the already much loved character. The plot itself is fast paced and thrilling, with twists and turns that keep you guessing right until the well crafted and unexpected end.
It's an absolute must read, although it really should come with a warning: Do not read a couple of pages before bed because before you know it, it'll be 4am and there'll be no chance of getting up in the morning!
Anyone who doesn't empathise with Bev throughout has no heart...anyone who doesn't love this book has no soul.
Quality.
With arrogant reporter Matt Snow being found a little too close for comfort near fresh crime scenes, Bev and the rest of the Highgate team have to establish whether he's a killer or just writing a killer news feature...but as usual Bev has other dramas to contend with and the balance between work issues and personal struggles leads to a fantastic book you really can't put down.
The main accolade with this book is the character development...while Bev never looses her trademark silver tongue and feistiness, we also see a vulnerable and exposed side to her which only further warms the reader to the already much loved character. The plot itself is fast paced and thrilling, with twists and turns that keep you guessing right until the well crafted and unexpected end.
It's an absolute must read, although it really should come with a warning: Do not read a couple of pages before bed because before you know it, it'll be 4am and there'll be no chance of getting up in the morning!
Anyone who doesn't empathise with Bev throughout has no heart...anyone who doesn't love this book has no soul.
Quality.
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