The Frailty of Flesh

Craig Nolan #2

by Sandra Ruttan

Constables Hart and Tain embark on their strangest and most disturbing case yet when a four-year-old boy is found beaten death in the park and his older brother, claiming that he witnessed the whole thing, accuses their sister, who is now missing. Original.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Ebooks, Thriller, Suspense, Legal, Family

335 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 2008

About the author

Sandra Ruttan was a walking disaster in her formative years. At age eight she was hit by a car while riding her bike home and her head was cut open. Just before her ninth birthday she was running along the beach and landed on broken glass, and her foot was partially severed. The muscle had to be stitched back together, leaving some uncertainty about whether she'd walk again, and the doctor was so fed up with her screaming he told her if she didn't shut up he'd cut her foot off. She went to school with the doctor's son, and forever felt sorry for him.

After her tenth birthday she fell down a waterfall and almost drowned. Her later adventures have included being in Seville when they found 4.5 tons of explosives set to blow up the Semana Santa parade and being in a car crash in the Sahara Desert. There is absolutely no explanation for how she's managed to stay alive as long as she has.

Reviews

[A · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wish I had more time to read this book each time I picked it up. I had to give this 3 stars because of the intermittent reading. It was hard for me to pick up where I left off. However, this could be caused by distractions and is no fault of the author.

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[Benjamin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another book from the dollar-a-bag sale. This one is very fine. It’s always something of a puzzle to me that James Patterson and Janet Evanovich (both typists, rather than writers) can regularly hit the New York Times bestseller list, but that writers such as Ruttan do not. This is a tightly-plotted police procedural with characters that are real, as opposed to the two-dimensional cardboard produced by the guilty parties named above. Well worth the time to read.

[Randy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Follow-up yo What Burns Within. Police procedural set in Canada. As in the first one, you get sucked in and by the time I reached midpoint, I couldn't put it down until I finished, about four hours of reading.

[Jennifer Higgison · Rating 3 out of 5]

kept me intrigued! a lotgoing on at Once. so disappointed in the ending!

[Linda Meredith]

Thriller to the end

did not want to turn the kindle down. it kept me in suspense the entire time. I will be reading more.

[debbie kinas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read

this is a hard book to put down once you start reading it. IT deals with real life issues and heartache.

[Shawna Brink · Rating 2 out of 5]

IDK

I liked the book as a whole but I just never could seem to really be captivated. Worth a read but nothing to write home about.

[Jan Bransbury · Rating 5 out of 5]

Couldn't put this one down.

[Tomi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Confusing...I am still not certain who did what - or even what the crime was...

[Audrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

A little boy is killed and his older sister missing. When the RCMP arrive to investigate the crime they soon discover it's more complicated than they first realized. A tragic story of dysfunctional homes which leads to criminal activity.