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micrummey's review
3.0
Constance, who can't stop eating snicker bars is a reporter on a Hallam newspaper investigating a series of attacks on the Urbopark shopping centre. It is so thinly disguised as Sheffield and Meadowhall it was pointless in the author in doing so, especially as there is a scene at Bramhall lane football ground that once hosted county cricket.
The author tries to link the past to Sheffield, oh sorry Hallam in the mid nineties through narrative and an inquiry into Union Practice in 1862. This didn't work for me as I wasn't quite sure who was who and because of this back and forth in time I wasn't quite sure at what point we were in the story.
I had to keep reading because I wanted to know who was attacking the shopping centre and there are plenty of red herrings scattered about to keep you focused. I did like the way how the author used newspaper articles to tell part of the story but was cringing at a couple of character names, Dougal Aitken-Aitken and DCI Pink. Not the worst book I've read but could have been improved with some serious editing of long passages of narrative that went off on some strange tangents.
The author tries to link the past to Sheffield, oh sorry Hallam in the mid nineties through narrative and an inquiry into Union Practice in 1862. This didn't work for me as I wasn't quite sure who was who and because of this back and forth in time I wasn't quite sure at what point we were in the story.
I had to keep reading because I wanted to know who was attacking the shopping centre and there are plenty of red herrings scattered about to keep you focused. I did like the way how the author used newspaper articles to tell part of the story but was cringing at a couple of character names, Dougal Aitken-Aitken and DCI Pink. Not the worst book I've read but could have been improved with some serious editing of long passages of narrative that went off on some strange tangents.
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