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A review by obsidian_blue
The Seagull by Ann Cleeves
3.0
Well of course I had to hit a blip in my series read. This was not good. It starts off really well and at the halfway point it gets slower, but still held my interest. But I think the ending and resolution was what knocked it down two stars for me. It didn't sit right with me that the guilty party(ies) in essence get away with things and that one character is just cool with the fact that . Just one more book to go and I will have completed my series read.
"The Segull" follows Vera after she's forced to go and talk to inmates concerning the crimes they did and the impact on victims. One of the inmates is a former officer, John Brace, who knew Vera as a child. The two of them have long-standing ties since Brace was friends and ran around with Vera's deceased father Hector. The gang of four (made me think of the Christie novel) included Brace, Hector, a man named the Prof (who no one ever met/saw in real life it seems) and a 40ish year old man named Robbie Marshall. When Brace demands that Vera look in on his daughter and her children in exchange for the location of Robbie Marshall's dead body (Marshall disappeared more than 20 years earlier) she looks into the particulars of Marshall's disappearance in the 90s and the people that moved in his circle.
Vera is a bit off in this one at times. Being thrown information about Hector throws her and also worries her what her father was up to besides stealing eggs.
Joe and Holly are still front and center in this one and are tracking down leads. What I liked though is this one uses Charlie a lot more than the prior books and he shines in this one.
The cast of thousands (I am exaggerating) were not hard to keep straight. But I have to say that some of the motivations felt really off and it seemed that Cleeves had a great plot, but the resolution/execution were just half-hearted. I don't see Vera going for what ends up taking place in this one.
Spoiler
her birth parties are behind the murder of her estranged husband. I maybe went is this for real a few times at the end."The Segull" follows Vera after she's forced to go and talk to inmates concerning the crimes they did and the impact on victims. One of the inmates is a former officer, John Brace, who knew Vera as a child. The two of them have long-standing ties since Brace was friends and ran around with Vera's deceased father Hector. The gang of four (made me think of the Christie novel) included Brace, Hector, a man named the Prof (who no one ever met/saw in real life it seems) and a 40ish year old man named Robbie Marshall. When Brace demands that Vera look in on his daughter and her children in exchange for the location of Robbie Marshall's dead body (Marshall disappeared more than 20 years earlier) she looks into the particulars of Marshall's disappearance in the 90s and the people that moved in his circle.
Vera is a bit off in this one at times. Being thrown information about Hector throws her and also worries her what her father was up to besides stealing eggs.
Joe and Holly are still front and center in this one and are tracking down leads. What I liked though is this one uses Charlie a lot more than the prior books and he shines in this one.
The cast of thousands (I am exaggerating) were not hard to keep straight. But I have to say that some of the motivations felt really off and it seemed that Cleeves had a great plot, but the resolution/execution were just half-hearted. I don't see Vera going for what ends up taking place in this one.