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A review by wendoxford
Borderlands by Brian McGilloway
3.0
Whilst this had all the elements of a great police procedural, somehow for me, it felt dated, in a bad way. It was a classic tangled mess of clues, red herrings, building tension, sniffs of corruption, flawed characters etc but did not really carry me
It had a wide range of personalities presented in a first person narrative told by Inspector Devlin. It carried the shady legacy of The Troubles opening with a corpse "placed" on the border between the Republic & Northern Ireland over the Christmas period.
I found it page turning and multi-layered and yet the plotting seemed to have large holes. I am finding it hard to pin down my negative feelings and imagine I might try the next in the series to see if I need further immersion!
It had a wide range of personalities presented in a first person narrative told by Inspector Devlin. It carried the shady legacy of The Troubles opening with a corpse "placed" on the border between the Republic & Northern Ireland over the Christmas period.
I found it page turning and multi-layered and yet the plotting seemed to have large holes. I am finding it hard to pin down my negative feelings and imagine I might try the next in the series to see if I need further immersion!