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Written under the nom de plume of Jack Harvey, Rankin stepped away from his Rhebus novels but he still remained close to his alma mater of the detective novel. "Witch Hunt" is a fast paced twisty and turny "catch a killer" thriller, focused around a contract killer believed to have been hired to kill a prominent G8 attendee. Rankin, as with the Rhebus novels, develops deeply layered characters without this impacting on the pace of the novel. A great read for a lazy afternoon. 3.5/5

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3.0

Hard story to get into and the characters were hard to like as well.

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adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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4.0

Good, solid thriller w/some interesting characters.

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3.0

I didn't feel like it moved at a pace I would have liked. it was a bit slow but otherwise good.

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4.0

A very methodical, meticulous thriller, in the same vein as Frederick Forsyth’s espionage classic The Day of the Jackal. In this story, police and British intelligence are searching for an assassin called the “witch.” They have a feeling they know where she’s going to strike but they do not know when or how. Rankin does a great job of keeping a story like this moving…basically in the hands of a lesser author, it might be quite boring with the characters just plodding along. But, Rankin is able to keep up the suspense with taut writing and a knack for knowing how to build up tension. A good, solid thriller by a writer who knows how to write for his genre.

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