Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30023 in Books
• Published on: 2004-12-06
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Literary Review
full of bitchery and backbiting, excellently done

The Times
Tough, exciting, moody and unpredictable

New Woman
Move over Morse

Customer Reviews

Less good than her other series, for me
I'd say more an average read, but I prefer the Tony Hill and Kate Branigan series, which are good. I don't think I'd by another Lyndsey Gordon; the plot relied too much on lucky breaks and coincidences than on proper reasoning, and the lesbianism was a bit too intrusive for me. There wasn't any charm to any of the characters, and there are back references to earlier books. Unusually for McDermid books, I was always concious that I was reading a book, rather than being immersed in watching the story unfold.

A good read, but I preferred the Brannigan books
I recommend buying all five schoolgirl "Lindsay Duncan" and all five Manchester private eye "Kate Brannigan" books then reading them in chronological order. You will then gain the benefit of following the storylines of the main characters as they develop through the series, as well as gaining an insight into the skills and talents Ms McDermid used in her excellent book "Killing the Shadows".