A review by claudetteb
The Crime Trade by Simon Kernick

2.0

London Police Procedural..... Just not a very good one. The main characters are just sketched in, basically we are TOLD what they are feeling but not shown. The story is basic, and could be told in 90 pages (if that). The filler is mostly anectodes about peripheral characters who may or may not ever appear again in the story - which is fine if you've bought a short story collection, but which added nothing to this story at all. The only thing I learned about London while reading this book is that the traffic is bad - much like this book.