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I really love Denise Mina as a writer. This is the 4th in the series and it features the female protagonist. She is real. She has a kid. She works her ass off and is a professional detective in Scotland.
I read this on audiobook and really enjoyed it during a busy time in my life but totally enjoyed it.
I read this on audiobook and really enjoyed it during a busy time in my life but totally enjoyed it.
This fourth entry in the Alex Morrow series took me a little while to get my bearings in. It opens with a young teenage girl stabbing a boy twenty years ago, and then segues to DI Morrow testifying against a gun-smuggler in court. Over the first third of the book, we move between these two time periods and are introduced to several lawyers, cops, and others with connections to these past events as well as present ones. It took me quite a while to grasp all the threads and establish who related t
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I've read the books in this series out of order and I think my opinion suffers from that fact. I don't know enough of Alex Morrow's back story to feel very comfortable with her. At times she makes some brilliant observations and in the next scene she is too morbidly tied to her past.
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I find this series really interesting, and this one thrives on Mina's ability to create complex characters who are simultaneously doing good things and bad things and deftly balancing the tensions between those acts. It's very hard to reduce any of her cast to pure saint or sinner, and they're that much more compelling for it.
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Feb 17, 2020
Kristen
marked it as do-not-read-don-t-like-series
