Review: Fascinating murder mystery
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2014
I received this book in exchange for a review.I nearly gave up at page one because the first page is really over-written.  It feels like a school essay full of detailed descriptions (I don't like text which is really descriptive).  However the writing settles down and it turns into a really fascinating story.  It's set in London but one or two Amercanism have crept in - dove, gotten, fix a meal which don't go with the English setting.The story is about Louisa, a detective with the Met in London and a murder enquiry she becomes involved in.  Its an intriguing story, if a bit gory at the beginning. Claire Harris has been murdered in strange circumstances and its Louisa's job to find out who killed her and why.  The sub-plot is about a project in London where everybody has a terminal through which they link into a central database.  All actions can be monitored through sense strips and all interaction with the system is recorded.In the middle of the book Louisa gets sent off in a completely different direction and the investigation of Claire's death seems to get side-lined.  This was frustrating at the time because I was following the original storyline, but then, like any good book, the subjects merge.A well written and well thought out story.