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davidwright's review
5.0
Here's the first of a gorgeous new British crime series featuring Detective Sergeant Stella Mooney that is bleak, brutal, and beautifully written. The elements of this hard-hitting procedural will be familiar to fans of contemporary London noir: the troubled detective making her daily descent into a grim urban nightmare; gangsters who range from merely brutal to wantonly sadistic; the sinister traffic in Eastern European flesh. What sets this title apart is the writing — apparently Lawrence has worked as both a poet and a screenwriter, and crime readers reap the benefits in haunting elegiac descriptions and living dialogue, all wound up in a swift and complex plot with its feet firmly in the gutter and its mind on better days, if only, if only . . . .
jaimer's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
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