I must say I thoroughly enjoyed this detective debut from
Jane Isaac, it’s very well written with the plot bouncing along at just the
right pace.
DCI Helen Lavery juggles her work and her chaotic home life
as the plot unfolds. Plagued by an underperforming deputy and a boss unsure
whether she is up to the job, she somehow manages to ignore everything and
concentrate on what she’s there for, and that is to find a murderer.
Anna is the victim in all this. Her life is tipped upside
down and then shaken to distraction before finally being put through the
ringer. You can’t help but feel sympathetic towards her as she’s the unwitting
victim of events, as well as the main suspect.
I found that the main characters leapt off the page at me;
they were well drawn, well rounded within a well written story. They were human,
with human frailties.
An Unfamiliar Murder is definitely a page turner, a cracking
good read by cracking good author. Congratulations go to Mrs Isaac for a first
class piece of writing that deserves to be widely read, a big future must
surely beckon.
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