Alison Bruce
The Calling
Detective: Gary Goodhew
Setting Cambridge
Time Current
Genre British Police Procedural
This is the third in the Alison Bruce/Gary Goodhew series and although Bruce claims in the afterword to be pleased with the plot she has constructed, there are times when it gets a little too convoluted to follow. A serial killer leaves women unmolested, fully clothed, trussed up in remote locations leaving them to die of starvation or exposure to the elements. The likely identity of the killer is revealed early one and the main puzzle in the readers mind is whether or not a key young woman is his victim or his accomplice. This one doesn't quite work.
Rating B
Alison Bruce's website
Previously read
Cambridge Blue
The Siren
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Thursday, 30 May 2013
Sunday, 21 April 2013
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
Alison Bruce website
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
Alison Bruce website
Sunday, 3 March 2013
Alison Bruce
Cambridge Blue
Detective: Gary Goodhew
Time Current
Setting Cambridge UK
Genre British Police Procedural
This is the first of the Gary Goodhew novels. Goodhew is a a young and gifted Detective Constable with a yen for extending an investigation on his own bat. Marks, his exasperated DI, is perhaps a little too generous in tolerating his methods.
The book opens with a murder in self defence which is apparently unconnected to the murder which eventually triggers Goodhew's investigation. The strands in the plot come together intriguingly and that to some extent compensates for some of the implausibility of Geoodhew's characterisation.
Rating A
Alison Bruce's Website
Cambridge Blue
Detective: Gary Goodhew
Time Current
Setting Cambridge UK
Genre British Police Procedural
This is the first of the Gary Goodhew novels. Goodhew is a a young and gifted Detective Constable with a yen for extending an investigation on his own bat. Marks, his exasperated DI, is perhaps a little too generous in tolerating his methods.
The book opens with a murder in self defence which is apparently unconnected to the murder which eventually triggers Goodhew's investigation. The strands in the plot come together intriguingly and that to some extent compensates for some of the implausibility of Geoodhew's characterisation.
Rating A
Alison Bruce's Website
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