Alison Bruce

The Siren

Detective: Gary Goodhew
Setting:      Cambridge
Time:         Current
Genre        Police Procedural

This is the second of Alison Bruce's Goodhew novels set in Cambridge and in many ways is better than the first, particularly in the characterisation of Goodhew, who in the first novel was too recocious a green detective and the presence of his grandmother as his eminence gris is not apparent.

The plot begins with the discovery of a body in a car pulled from the sea in Spain and the death in a fire of one of two women who know something about it and the disappearance of the other one's young child. The direction the story takes is not always predictable and the twists are intrguing.

Rating A

Previously read  Cambridge Blue

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