This was one of the greater stories I have read this year.
It is set in hauntingly cold and dark scenery of remote Scottish piece of land, and it throws a lot of dark and twisted shadows onto people living there. You get involved into lives of DI Monica Kennedy and her struggle to sustain any sort of balance of motherhood and policing. She feels more paranoid as the murder investigations go on because of her own experience in law and how it can be twisted to provide results of good through 'evil' as such. And alongside Monica we follow social workers life, who desperately tries to find a missing boy to redeam himself more than anything. Along the story, he helps to provide backstories of characters and is crucial in revealing several shocking twists.
Great storytelling from G. R. Halliday and despite the murders, wonderful depiction of ever changing weathers in Scotland.
It is set in hauntingly cold and dark scenery of remote Scottish piece of land, and it throws a lot of dark and twisted shadows onto people living there. You get involved into lives of DI Monica Kennedy and her struggle to sustain any sort of balance of motherhood and policing. She feels more paranoid as the murder investigations go on because of her own experience in law and how it can be twisted to provide results of good through 'evil' as such. And alongside Monica we follow social workers life, who desperately tries to find a missing boy to redeam himself more than anything. Along the story, he helps to provide backstories of characters and is crucial in revealing several shocking twists.
Great storytelling from G. R. Halliday and despite the murders, wonderful depiction of ever changing weathers in Scotland.