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A review by eleellis
Vendetta by Dreda Say Mitchell
4.0
Vendetta is the first book featuring Detective Rio Wray and undercover Detective John MacDonagh. The two characters are immersed in the byzantine world of global mobsters and governments, which are further dotted with a host of other interesting characters with unknown for certain, shifty motives.
Reading this first installment and trying to figure out who should or should not be trusted is like rolling around a broken up bead of mercury while watching the droplets form, only to break apart again.
Rio Wray is an outwardly confident-internally insecure, tough as nails, by the book, female black detective, while MacDonagh is a haunted, PTSD afflicted man trying to decipher who murdered his lover he found in a seedy hotel bathroom after awaking from a seemingly blow to the head.
There are plenty of twists to keep the reader interested. One early plot twist was completely unpredictable and from that point, I knew the book was going to be a very enjoyable crime fiction novel and that prediction turned out to be true.
For those that like the Rachael Howzell Hall Elouise Norton novels, this series appears to be right up there with her novels.
Yes, this was a violent, gritty book, but those that read these novels shouldn't be too shocked to what is contained inside.
Strongly recommended.
While in the first part of the book, one twist immediately grabbed me
Reading this first installment and trying to figure out who should or should not be trusted is like rolling around a broken up bead of mercury while watching the droplets form, only to break apart again.
Rio Wray is an outwardly confident-internally insecure, tough as nails, by the book, female black detective, while MacDonagh is a haunted, PTSD afflicted man trying to decipher who murdered his lover he found in a seedy hotel bathroom after awaking from a seemingly blow to the head.
There are plenty of twists to keep the reader interested. One early plot twist was completely unpredictable and from that point, I knew the book was going to be a very enjoyable crime fiction novel and that prediction turned out to be true.
For those that like the Rachael Howzell Hall Elouise Norton novels, this series appears to be right up there with her novels.
Yes, this was a violent, gritty book, but those that read these novels shouldn't be too shocked to what is contained inside.
Strongly recommended.
While in the first part of the book, one twist immediately grabbed me