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Cold Justice (Detective Ella Marconi, #3)

Katherine Howell

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Jul 16, 2015 Kathryn rated it liked it

Shelves: australian-authors, added-because-part-of-series, reading-list-2015, fiction

Although still an interesting read, I didn’t find this one quite as gripping as the second in the series which I read earlier this month. I also felt that I’d either missed something in the development of the characters or something seemed to have been fast-tracked. Without giving too much away, there was a singular event that occurred at the end of the second book that all of a sudden seemed to be a well-established occurrence in the third, and that threw me initially.

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Apr 27, 2012 Brenda rated it really liked it

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Detective Ella Marconi has been handed a cold case involving a gruesome murder nineteen years ago of school boy Tim Pieters. Tim’s cousin, Callum, is now a member of Parliament, and has decided to push the police to re-open the case to find the killer.

During the course of locating witnesses from 19 years ago, Ella tracks down Georgie who was just a teenager at the time, and also the one who discovered Tim’s body, hidden in bushes. She was at the same school as Tim, even though they were two yea ...more

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Feb 15, 2010 Sheree rated it it was amazing

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Katherine Howell has done it again and brilliantly. Cold Justice is a compelling, multi-layered read that combines "all that is good" from this author. Howell's attention to detail is once again, meticulous. The sights, smells, sounds and emotions of the paramedic scene are visceral, the next best thing to actually being there. When an author writes what she knows and a reader feels like a participant rather than an observer, I think it's safe to say the author has done her job superbly!

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