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Detective Superintendent Jack Deacon doesn't take kindly to threats made on his family. So when local crime boss Joe Loomis starts to menace his infant son and the child's mother, Brodie Farrell, Deacon is prepared to do whatever it takes to protect them. However, the danger of Loomis is not something he will have to worry about for long.Brodie has made a career out of finding lost things, but the last thing she'd want to look for is a man she's taken great pains to lose. Annoyance is quickly replaced by horror when she finds Loomis at her door collapsed in a pool of blood - stabbed to the verge of death with his own knife. But it's the gangster's enigmatic last mutterings that threaten to tear apart her tenuously held family. With Deacon under suspicion and Brodie on the hunt for the crook's killer, both are pulled into a world of twisting family ties and terrorism. Little do they know that the murder of one small time crime boss will unearth a sinister plot that could devastatingly impact far more than the pair's domestic life.
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Format:Hardcover
I surprised myself by enjoying this book much more than I had expected. The author was new to me and so I had not read others in the Deacon/Brodie series.
For a start, and as a Scot, those names in conjunction conjure up images of 18th century Edinburgh rather than a fictitious town in the south of England. I much prefer novels set in real locations which infuse the narrative with their own peculiar atmospheres.
As an example, Ian Rankin's Rebus novels are imbued with the sense of Edinburgh as a place and all the better for it. The trouble with a fictional location is that it constantly reminds you that you are reading fiction and so the suspension of disbelief is lost.
Secondly, the main characters are all dysfunctional and not particularly likeable. Normally that would have me speed-reading to the end, but in this case the writing and plot were sufficient to make me see it through.
It's not what I would call a top quality police procedural novel but I would be happy to read more from Jo Bannister.
For a start, and as a Scot, those names in conjunction conjure up images of 18th century Edinburgh rather than a fictitious town in the south of England. I much prefer novels set in real locations which infuse the narrative with their own peculiar atmospheres.
As an example, Ian Rankin's Rebus novels are imbued with the sense of Edinburgh as a place and all the better for it. The trouble with a fictional location is that it constantly reminds you that you are reading fiction and so the suspension of disbelief is lost.
Secondly, the main characters are all dysfunctional and not particularly likeable. Normally that would have me speed-reading to the end, but in this case the writing and plot were sufficient to make me see it through.
It's not what I would call a top quality police procedural novel but I would be happy to read more from Jo Bannister.
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