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This is one of the novellas that Susan Hill has written about Simon Serrailler, one of my favorite police characters in fiction. This is about a surprise attach on a Gay Pride parade by a group of young right wing thugs. Another event is approaching the next week that celebrates returning troops from Afghanistan. The police and the military receive threats of an attack on the event. Simon Serrailler is at the center of planning and managing the various egos and "bosses". The ending provides an unexpected twist.

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1.0

Audiobook through my local library.

Felt like this was a little bit pandering. Firstly focussing on a group of extremist EDL-like fanatics. Then swinging the other way to anti-war and a mother’s revenge. Just fell a bit flat and the twist was anticlimactic. Not a good introduction to this authors work unfortunately for me.

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2.0

I tried to like this. Writing style just doesn't seem to work for me. I finished this and sat back and thought "so what was the plot?".

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3.0

I picked this ebook up thinking it was the new Simon Serrailler book. It is a Simon Serrailler book that I hadn't read but it's just a short one, somewhere between a short story and a novella. Oddly it seems to take place after [b:The Soul of Discretion|17999093|The Soul of Discretion (Simon Serrailler, #8)|Susan Hill|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1411817753s/17999093.jpg|25257652] which is the book I was after (maybe not odd - it was published later, it's just that Goodreads has this down as before it in the series). It packs a lot in but as usual with short stories I end up wishing the author had padded it out to develop some of the characters further, everything seems a bit too rushed in this format.

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adventurous mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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1.0

This was really boring, underwhelming and seemingly pointless. I got this as an Audible freebie, thinking it might compel me to read the rest of the series. It did not. None of the characters are likeable and some of the views expressed by them were repellent. I don't mind reading about unlikeable characters if they're at least interesting, but I didn't find them so. My reading of this might have suffered by this being 8.5 in a long-running series, but I don't care to find out how much of a factor that was.

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1.0

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