Review: Scottish whodunit
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2014
This is a tale in which insurance fraud investigator Craig Campbell reluctantly agrees to track down a missing girl. The trail leads past the local university with characters who range from kind to dirtbag, into the world of prostitution and the exploitation of immigrants, and even through the carnage of late 20th/early 21st century Europe. Character development is quite good - for both positive and negative characters.Two beefs: 1) This is not the first volume in a series but would work perfectly as a stand-along if the author hadn't included snippets of events from earlier books without clueing in the reader to their significance. 2) The story line was way too slow in the beginning ... the red herrings were fine but perhaps there could have been more of them or the existing ones more ominous ... The book took off like a rocket towards the end, but getting there was just a mite tedious.Overall: an enjoyable read