Having said that, the author gives glimpses of more interesting writing: (Risking a mild spoiler, I’ll just say it had to do with a medical device.) There was one action at the end, in particular, I found totally unlikely given the supposed nature of the character. The plot was reasonable, with a number of surprises, but too often the characters seemed to lack emotional depth. While the story kept me engaged, I found the writing in parts too reliant on dialogue I would’ve liked to experience more of the physicality of the Black Country, through more visual descriptions and a greater appeal to the senses. So does the author in weaving a tale with multiple layers of childhood trauma, exploitation, self-delusion and greed. Set with the task of solving a number of murders, Stone does a pretty good job. I can see her making a good series character. She’s tenacious and, although she does her best to hide her emotions, she has a soft streak. Stone has a complex history she’s short on people skills and she has an obsessive-compulsive streak that makes her a pain to work with, but gives her an advantage as a detective. (I found a video of an elderly couple talking and it was like listening to a foreign language.)Īnother aspect I enjoyed was the narrator, D I Kim Stone. It’s not an area I’m familiar with, and the author’s use of dialect had me searching to hear examples of it on Youtube. One was its setting in the Black Country in the West Midlands in England. There were a few things I liked about Angela Marsons’ thriller, Silent Scream.
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