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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
Picked this one up at random in the Somerville Public Library, and I'm glad I did. It's really sort of a 3-1/2 star book. The whodunit element is not that strong, but two other elements are: the insight into social issues like human trafficking, and the character of Inspector Ben Devlin. He may be a cop, but he's just a regular guy with a wife, kids, and morals, trying to do what's right and sometimes making things worse in the process, but never quitting.
A very good read this one. The series is growing on me now. This one involves Irish Americans gold mines and murder. DI Devlin seems to get an idea in his head and tries to fit blame around it all until he eventually finds out it was the exact opposite. I like this author but not so sure yet. Have to try another
Third in this series of books about a Garda officer who juggles his investigations with his family life and wanting to be part of his children's lives.
Here he is also battling a new boss who seems to resent Devlin's presence so when a big American corporation want to exploit gold reserves found in a local river the boss seems sensitive to Devlin's investigations into a nasty gang of people traffickers ,a dead foreign national, as well as a bog body discovered on the land , and uses it as an opportunity to push Devlin out.
A page turner that straddles the Irish border and a series and character that I really enjoy.
Here he is also battling a new boss who seems to resent Devlin's presence so when a big American corporation want to exploit gold reserves found in a local river the boss seems sensitive to Devlin's investigations into a nasty gang of people traffickers ,a dead foreign national, as well as a bog body discovered on the land , and uses it as an opportunity to push Devlin out.
A page turner that straddles the Irish border and a series and character that I really enjoy.
There is something about this series of books featuring DI Devlin that keeps drawing me back. I do not love them but do admire the scope and complexity that shrouds each episode with its ever larger and tightening web of characters.
I wonder if my reservations are that Devlin is neither maverick nor tortured, he is a church-going family man yet policing deep in sectarian border country. The plot contains people smuggling, Irish-American links, guns, environmental issues and even a localised gold rush yet, whilst page turning, layered and slippery it has no palpable tension like others of this genre.
That said, I keep reading the next volume so there is definitely an element of curiosity that keeps reeling me in.
I wonder if my reservations are that Devlin is neither maverick nor tortured, he is a church-going family man yet policing deep in sectarian border country. The plot contains people smuggling, Irish-American links, guns, environmental issues and even a localised gold rush yet, whilst page turning, layered and slippery it has no palpable tension like others of this genre.
That said, I keep reading the next volume so there is definitely an element of curiosity that keeps reeling me in.