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The Drowning Isle
by Simon McCleave
The Drowning Isle by Simon McCleave is the fourth in The Anglesey Series. This time, four male friends in their teens go camping at Anglesey in Wales to celebrate an eighteenth birthday with alcohol and magic mushroom experimentation. Callum goes off but doesn't return. We are privy to last moments of his terrified life before his body shows up on the beach. DI Laura Hart and DI Gareth Williams have problems of their own but are now faced with discovering what happened to Callum and why. It was interesting to learn more about the detectives' pasts and what makes them tick in the present. Police corruption, dark angst and cults add intrique to the multi-layered story.
Though secrets, reveals and twists keep coming from all sides and the ending is smashing, this installment didn't reel me in as the others have. Excessive alcohol and other drug use in books aren't my wheelhouse. Police procedurals are less and less my thing, too. However, I will continue the series as the writing is clever and magnificent. Perhaps it's an, "it's not you, it's me" situation.
My sincere thank you to Avon Books UK and NetGalley for providing me with a digital copy of this novel.
Though secrets, reveals and twists keep coming from all sides and the ending is smashing, this installment didn't reel me in as the others have. Excessive alcohol and other drug use in books aren't my wheelhouse. Police procedurals are less and less my thing, too. However, I will continue the series as the writing is clever and magnificent. Perhaps it's an, "it's not you, it's me" situation.
My sincere thank you to Avon Books UK and NetGalley for providing me with a digital copy of this novel.