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The Puppet Show by M.W. Craven
4.5
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
It is such an excellent crime/police thriller. The first in the Washington Poe series, and I will be reading more. A fast ride with loveable characters. Poe is suspended from his DCI role, and he is forced out of retirement when a Serial Killer carves his name in his latest victim, and he comes back demoted to a DI. Tilly Bradshaw, a computer geek analyst, supports him and is a fabulous neurodiversive loveable character. His previous DI, Stephanie Flynn, is now his superior. Twisty, gritty, dark, clever, and an utterly brilliant page Turner of a read. Superb

EDIT. I read this book a second time as it was a selection for a book club, and other than re-reading books of my youth, I rarely re-read as my to be read list is so long. However, as I loved this book so much the first time, I decided to give re-reading a go. I was not disappointed and still loved the book, and it was great to go back and read from the beginning. I found tit bits that I had missed on first reading. It's so very clever and utterly brilliant, I can't shut up about how solid and superb that both this book and the series is. Fantastic.
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