R C Bridgestock

Deadly Focus

Detective Jack Dylan
Setting     Urban England, possibly Yorkshire
Time         Current
Genre       English Police Procedural

This is the first of Bridgestock's Jack Dylan novels. I suspect it will be the last I read. The prose is over fulsome and immature and filled with trivial decriptions.

The plot itself is reasonable, concerning the apparently unrelated murder of two school children. Eventually a connection is made between the two crimes which ultimately leads to the arrest of the murderer. This happens relatively early and much of the later half concerns the interview to get a confession. Tackled at length it has some intersst.

Dylan's relationship with his partner is explored in too much detail.

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