Rating: 4/5
Review:
Another good instalment from Casey
Jane Casey is a class act in crime fiction and Cruel Acts is another
good instalment of the Maeve Kerrigan series.
It needs someone
with Casey’s skill to make a good book from this, because there’s
a lot of very familiar stuff (alone and confronted by the killer...of
course) and, to me, some very off-putting plot elements –
especially the serial killer torturing and killing women theme, of
which I have had quite enough now, thank you. Nonetheless, Casey’s
ability to create very real, human characters and to structure her
story well makes it a gripping and enjoyable read. Maeve Kerrigan is
an interesting narrator, with both her strengths and failings very
well portrayed and other characters convincingly depicted.
This isn’t perhaps
a classic of the genre, but it’s good. Jane Casey is always worth
reading and Cruel Acts is no exception. Recommended.
(My thanks to
HarperCollins for an ARC via NetGalley.)
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