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Zo Boehm has harbored a distinct aversion to death ever since she shot the man intent on killing her. So when Caroline Daniels takes a deadly fall in front of a train and her lover fails to turn up at the funeral, Zo wants nothing to do with the case. But Caroline's boss is persistent, and as Zo attempts to unlock the secrets of a woman she's never met while in search of a man who could be anywhere, she starts to wonder if he's found her first. And if he has, will that make her the next victim, or prove to be her salvation from a paralyzing fear?
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Rated 4 starsThoughtful, Well Crafted Thriller (3.5 stars)
Herron's second installment in the Zoe Boehm series is a thoughtful, slow-paced story of police officers and the justice system gone bad. Zoe is a forty-something private detective who's hired to find the elusive boyfriend who made Caroline Daniels' final weeks happy. Ms. Daniels fell in front of an oncoming Tube train--or was she pushed? Two other mysteries are carefully braided into this first storyline; and together,...
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Rated 5 starsGreat Female Detective Debut
I gather that in the US this is Mick Herron's first novel. That's fine, because the book stands proudly by itself as a psychological, noirish crime novel that deals in the issues of love, possession and ageing. Zoe Boehm his detective is a street-smart 40-something private eye based in Oxford, England. The plot kept me guessing and I guessed wrong most of the time. It is a slow-burner but the atmosphere more than compensates...
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