Lezersrecensie
AN AGREEABLE READ
DI Dani Stephens still suffers the after-effects of traumatic brain injury that her twin brother caused when he tried to kill her. Now her boyfriend is also still in the hospital, slowly recovering from the attack by another serial killer (the cellmate of her brother Ben). She’s still convinced that it’s Ben who’s behind the whole thing. The trial against the serial killer isn’t going too well and she’s preoccupied with this.
Her partner DS Easton has a lot on his plate himself. Since his sister and her 2 children moved in with him 6 months ago, he’s become more and more the convenient babysitter while she goes off partying most nights. As a convinced bachelor, he misses his peace and quiet.
They’re called out to a suspicious death that’s made to look like a suicide; a glass of vodka and a cabinet full of (expired) anti-depressants and valium while she drowned in the bath. The friend who found her is adamant that someone was leaving through the back door when she came in but no traces of an intruder are to be found at first. Then they discover that the victim was living under a false name as well as investigating the disappearance of her brother 5 years earlier. Dani finds a possible link to a Romanian gangster working for the Romanian mafia. It’s a small, tight-knit community where no one wants or dares to talk to the police.
I strongly advise reading the previous 2 volumes in this series before starting this one. It can be read on its own, but I had the feeling that I missed out on a lot. The relationship between Dani and her twin brother play a major role in her behaviour and way of thinking and although we get a short version of the previous events, it will make things a lot more understandable. It’s also clear that this thread will continue in the next books as well.
The story is told mainly from Dani’s POV, but there are important chapters about Ana, a young Romanian woman who’s in dire straits. That gives the reader a better overview than the police has. The story is rather straight forward with a few surprises about the chronology and the chain of events. It’s suspenseful and well written by an established author who’s written 2 other series as well. He knows his job, that’s the least I can say. It’s a very agreeable read.
If I can moan about 1 thing than it is about the ‘grand finale’ when Dani and … go off on their own, following a hunch she has, just after the rest of the police stopped their combined searches. She could have asked for back-up as soon as she heard that she was on the right track. Only a fool would go there in the middle of the night, unarmed, and unprotected. That’s just asking for trouble. I don’t think that real police (wo)men would act in this way. But it makes a good and thrilling copy.
I thank Canelo Hera and Netgalley for the free ARC the provided me with; this is my honest and unbiased opinion of it.
Her partner DS Easton has a lot on his plate himself. Since his sister and her 2 children moved in with him 6 months ago, he’s become more and more the convenient babysitter while she goes off partying most nights. As a convinced bachelor, he misses his peace and quiet.
They’re called out to a suspicious death that’s made to look like a suicide; a glass of vodka and a cabinet full of (expired) anti-depressants and valium while she drowned in the bath. The friend who found her is adamant that someone was leaving through the back door when she came in but no traces of an intruder are to be found at first. Then they discover that the victim was living under a false name as well as investigating the disappearance of her brother 5 years earlier. Dani finds a possible link to a Romanian gangster working for the Romanian mafia. It’s a small, tight-knit community where no one wants or dares to talk to the police.
I strongly advise reading the previous 2 volumes in this series before starting this one. It can be read on its own, but I had the feeling that I missed out on a lot. The relationship between Dani and her twin brother play a major role in her behaviour and way of thinking and although we get a short version of the previous events, it will make things a lot more understandable. It’s also clear that this thread will continue in the next books as well.
The story is told mainly from Dani’s POV, but there are important chapters about Ana, a young Romanian woman who’s in dire straits. That gives the reader a better overview than the police has. The story is rather straight forward with a few surprises about the chronology and the chain of events. It’s suspenseful and well written by an established author who’s written 2 other series as well. He knows his job, that’s the least I can say. It’s a very agreeable read.
If I can moan about 1 thing than it is about the ‘grand finale’ when Dani and … go off on their own, following a hunch she has, just after the rest of the police stopped their combined searches. She could have asked for back-up as soon as she heard that she was on the right track. Only a fool would go there in the middle of the night, unarmed, and unprotected. That’s just asking for trouble. I don’t think that real police (wo)men would act in this way. But it makes a good and thrilling copy.
I thank Canelo Hera and Netgalley for the free ARC the provided me with; this is my honest and unbiased opinion of it.
1
Reageer op deze recensie
Meer recensies van mick dubois
Gesponsord
Deze thriller trekt je razendsnel mee in een complot met onbetrouwbare staatslieden met hun eigen agenda's, internationale conflicten en hoogoplopende bedreigingen voor de samenleving.
