Review: A Tightly Crafted Page-Turner
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 17, 2014
Sophie Gillette is a Montreal cop who is hot on the trail of a driver in a fatal hit-and-run. What she and her partner find leads them into a complex chain of events with many overlapping participants. Why do they keep finding paths to the same group of people in seemingly unrelated cases? There's a puzzle to be solved as a list of victims keeps growing longer.This book starts out as a police procedural for a routine traffic accident and turns into a lot more, fast. The characters are compelling, especially Sophie, and the dialog is sharp and realistic. There is plenty of action, a few car chases, and a good use of forensics as a complement to old-fashioned police work in the field.  All of this is wrapped around the people and places in the metro Montreal area, with enough local color to make you wish you were there (perhaps not in the middle of winter, though).Highly recommended for anyone who likes thrillers, complex police procedurals, or just likes Montreal.