Review: Good story, but really different...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 25, 2014
Not the type of mystery that has you biting your fingernails; neither is it a light, "cozy" mystery.  It is an enthralling and compelling mystery of criminal investigations from the point of view of the investigators themselves.  Being so, it is concurrently a treatise OF those investigators, and how their work transcends varying aspects of their lives, sometimes bringing the coldness intrinsic to the job ok not those parts where warmth should predominate.The writing is wonderful, if not somewhat "suitably distant."  The story truly is good, and it tells the art of investigation realistically, without the "romanticizing" of the job to which we have become accustomed through venues such as television's Law & Order, SCI, Blue Bloods, Criminal Minds... the genre, in general.But it is a great story, well told.  And it centers about very real issues today: police corruption; formerly law-abiding citizens taking advantage, when legitimate I come is reduced or eliminated, of the lucrative opportunities for income provided by the gangs and cartels; trafficking of contraband (drugs, goods, and humans all touched upon).  A parallel plot also addresses more traditional forms of "getting even" after being taken of unfair advantage, or other theft.The story is riveting and intriguing, and well worth the reading.  American readers need to know that it occurs in England, and dialect strongly reflects that area; it is advised that you use the UK version of your device's dictionary.