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Karen Sharpe has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but are the pressures of the job getting too much for her? When the battered body of a young girl is discovered, it kicks off an inquiry which pushes Karen and a trainee DC, Marcus Roth, too close for comfort, both on and off-duty. The investigation leads to a woman with a violent past - a woman with a six-year-old boy in her care... As the terrible truth emerges, the inquiry becomes a race against time before another child becomes a victim.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This series is growing on me. Connor's lead Karen Sharpe is one of the more interesting coppers I have seen in a long time. Driven by her own sense of morality and justice, often to the detriment of those around her, she is tough, vicious and downright dangerous.
Karen is now a detective sergeant investigating a criminal family, headed by a terrifying matriarch. One of her team, DC Roth, is attracted to his prickly and mercurial superior, unaware that Karen seems to chew men up and spit them out. And when her methods become unsound, he has a tough choice to make.
John Connor has a knack of creating the most monstrous, yet believable villains, and as his biog suggests - many years as a criminal barrister - this knowledge of both sides of the law, and the banality of evil, serves him well.
A real star and I cannot recommend this writer highly enough. Check out the series.
Karen is now a detective sergeant investigating a criminal family, headed by a terrifying matriarch. One of her team, DC Roth, is attracted to his prickly and mercurial superior, unaware that Karen seems to chew men up and spit them out. And when her methods become unsound, he has a tough choice to make.
John Connor has a knack of creating the most monstrous, yet believable villains, and as his biog suggests - many years as a criminal barrister - this knowledge of both sides of the law, and the banality of evil, serves him well.
A real star and I cannot recommend this writer highly enough. Check out the series.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I had run out of my favourite authors' books and whilst waiting for new releases I read the first of the DS Karen Sharpe series due to the review posted by Hector Parkinson. So I owe a big thank you because I became totally hooked and have now read all of the books in this series.
In "Falling", I feel that you need to have read the previous novels to connect with the main character of DS Karen Sharpe who has a complex personality due to her life experiences. There are times when I'm not even sure if I like her and then you connect this to previous events in her life and you are swayed in her favour again. She is also willing to take risks which borders on being improper but are for the right reasons. Consequently, there is a real depth to her character which is conveyed to the reader through skilful writing.
This is a different type of crime novel in that it is both modern and adult with characters that have a reality about them. In "Falling" Connor tackles a subject, cruelty to children and young adults, which is quite uncomfortable to read.
On the cover it states that John Connor is a former barrister and the legal detail is strong throughout.
Highly recommended.
In "Falling", I feel that you need to have read the previous novels to connect with the main character of DS Karen Sharpe who has a complex personality due to her life experiences. There are times when I'm not even sure if I like her and then you connect this to previous events in her life and you are swayed in her favour again. She is also willing to take risks which borders on being improper but are for the right reasons. Consequently, there is a real depth to her character which is conveyed to the reader through skilful writing.
This is a different type of crime novel in that it is both modern and adult with characters that have a reality about them. In "Falling" Connor tackles a subject, cruelty to children and young adults, which is quite uncomfortable to read.
On the cover it states that John Connor is a former barrister and the legal detail is strong throughout.
Highly recommended.
Format:Paperback
This series enthralled me from the outset. Important to read in the correct order. Some characters build up, new ones come in and 'old' ones disappear. Looking forward to reading the next one!
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