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A review by sfian
A Game of Proof by Tim Vicary
4.0
Cards on the table, I don't read much crime fiction and when I do, it's generally not UK-based. In fact, this is the first modern UK-based crime book I have read and I only picked it up because it was a free download. The author had been mentioned to me when I posted on a local Facebook group about another book I had read that was set in York. In that book, my home city almost becomes a character in the story. This one, however, apart from few place names, could be set anywhere.
Not that it matters, after a slow(ish) start, the story both rattles on and draws you in. The subject matter - violence towards women - does leave a nasty taste in the mouth, and some of the vernacular reads wrongly to me but, overall, it is a more than satisfactory novel, albeit with some of the coincidences that litter other crime stories I have read. I can't comment whether the English legal system is accurately portrayed, but the case gripped me to the end. An end when Vicary leads you to think one thing is going to happen, the pulls the rug while still leaving the ending you were expecting intact.
Will I read the others in the series? Possibly, but not just yet.
Not that it matters, after a slow(ish) start, the story both rattles on and draws you in. The subject matter - violence towards women - does leave a nasty taste in the mouth, and some of the vernacular reads wrongly to me but, overall, it is a more than satisfactory novel, albeit with some of the coincidences that litter other crime stories I have read. I can't comment whether the English legal system is accurately portrayed, but the case gripped me to the end. An end when Vicary leads you to think one thing is going to happen, the pulls the rug while still leaving the ending you were expecting intact.
Will I read the others in the series? Possibly, but not just yet.