Review: Good police investigation thriller, well-written and structured
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 31, 2013
"Brass in Pocket" by Stephen Puleston is well-made thrilling police procedural novel that enable readers to speculate many times about the killer, although it would be hard to guess correctly until novel's conclusion.Its story is set in Wales, and it's first in series that introduce Detective Inspector Drake who is on the one hand a typical police officer, and on the other, man who is quite saturated with his routine.Exciting case on which he started working will provide him a great challenge, but also a problem for his already bad private life.Also, it seems that he has issue with tidiness, or maybe even with some kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder that makes him burdened about paper order on his desk, but at the same time his personal life is in mess suffering due to his work, and his family eventually only seeing him at evenings.He is searching for his calmness in Sudoku puzzles that enable him to feel at least a bit more in control with his life.The novel story begins when two policeman are killed on the road and a note that was left by the killer near their bodies.Some additional killings will occur, all accompanied by similar notes which are all connected to number 1979 although no one really knows what happened that year which obviously is important for killer. And does killer is referencing that year at all or on something completely different...There are no real twists in the story, although at times it seems that the killer cannot be caught because it is always one step ahead of Inspector, sometimes even seem literally knowing where he is.Things will eventually become personal when the killer will step deep into the private life of a Detective..."Brass in Pocket" is good police investigation thriller, well-written and structured, and it doesn't seem at all like it was written by someone who is new and inexperienced writer.Therefore, I can recommend this novel from Stephen Puleston, a new shining star on thriller sky and I'm sure that I'll give his Inspector another chance when sequel of his adventure will be available.