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Overkill marked a bold beginning for a new voice, and a new hero, in crime fiction. Former pharmacist and Dunedin-based debutant author Vanda Symon wastes no time, immediately stunning readers with an opening-pages haymaker, as an intruder forces a stay-at-home mother to submit to her own death, in order to save her baby daughter.
Soon after, sole-charge rural policewoman Sam Shepherd finds herself co-ordinating the search for the missing mother, and then investigating the looks-like suicide drow ...more
Soon after, sole-charge rural policewoman Sam Shepherd finds herself co-ordinating the search for the missing mother, and then investigating the looks-like suicide drow ...more
Another light read, also good and with the added essence of local flair and flavour. Sam Shepard is a sole charge police constable in Mataura. A local woman (Gaby Knowles) is dead but the supposed suicide is in fact murder, to complicate the picture Gaby's husband is Sam's former lover. Sam, herself falls under suspicion as the police big boys come in from Invercargill and Dunedin to investigate. Whilst suspended she tries to find out the truth behind Gaby's death. Captivating read with action a
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This was surprisingly good - it had good reviews, but it took me ages to actually read it. I find NZ authors try to hard to work NZ into their books, rather than concentrating on a good story. This managed to do both!
Mar 29, 2015
Lilian Jade
marked it as to-read
