Review by Brian Lowen read live on bookshow 9th May 2013
This is a book in
the series featuring Detective Jack Caffery and it appears that a female
Sergeant who works in the specialist team involved in underwater searching and
goes by the strange name of Flea also features in this series.
Jack and Flea were
emotionally involved with each other until a terrible night when Flea’s brother
was a hit and run drunk driver and Flea hid the girl’s body that he had killed.
Jack got to hear of this but thought it was Flea who had run the girl over and
this finished their relationship, but strangely, the killing was never
reported.
The story involves
the search for a man who has abducted several young girls. It is thought that
he has taken them for his own sexual gratification but it turns out to be for a
completely different reason which is revealed later in the story.
I still cannot
really make up my mind whether I enjoyed this book or not. It is good during
the action sections but there are a lot of dream sequences that I found
unnecessary to the story. It is quite a
long book and doesn’t need this padding.
The action section
in this last few chapters are excellent – gripping and exciting but the ending
is another dream that leaves you hanging in mid air – to ensure you buy the
next book in the series, I suppose.
Other authors have done this and I usually don’t mind because I want to
buy the next book, but I am not so sure with this one. Not a good page turner and rather a lot of
confusing names. Perhaps I wasn’t concentrating enough!
Not for me, but I
guess a lot of people will enjoy it.
