Gallows View by Peter Robinson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
My second visit to a Peter Robinson novel, and this time it was the Scotmid in the Pans that provided the opportunity to jump back thirteen books in the series to the very first outing. And it was a lot more violent and graphic than book number 14. This involves a peeping t, two glue-sniffing young thugs are breaking into homes and robbing people and an old woman may or may not have been murdered. It’s well paced, very energetic, but as I said, surprisingly graphic.
The Red Dahlia by Lynda La Plante
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Amazingly enough, I have never read anything by Lynda La Plante, nor knowingly seen anything on the telly, so another Co-Op buy was my first encounter. The plot is certainly mucky enough to keep the dodgier crime fans happy, although I found the lead detective a bit unengaging and one dimensionsal. Fortunately, the story which involves a young girl found dumped on the banks of the Thames who has been horrifically mutilated and drained of blood with her death an ominous mirror image of an unsolved 1940s case in Los Angeles known as ‘The Black Dahlia’ keeps you going till the end. Nasty but absorbing.
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