Rating: 4/5
Review:
An involving and enjoyable crime novel
I enjoyed this book very much. It is the first Zoë Sharp I've read and it certainly won't be the last. It's the second in her Charlie Fox series, but you don't need to have read Killer Instinct first to enjoy this: we are given all the necessary background in a very skilful way which never feels like clumsy exposition.
The book is well-written and very well paced. Charlie Fox, having been thrown out of the Army Special Forces, becomes involved in dealing with gang crime and vigilantes on an estate in Lancaster where she lives. The plot is largely plausible, although it does require a bit of suspension of disbelief from time to time - for example, the flimsy reasons for not going to the police but investigating privately - but the story is involving and exciting enough for this not to matter, and it is good to have a decent story set in a believable, everyday situation.
Charlie Fox is an engaging protagonist, there is a decent smattering of humour and a good mix of tension, action and thoughtfulness. I would warmly recommend this book as an exciting, engaging and thoroughly enjoyable read.
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