The Book Depository First Blood by Angela Marsons
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Description: First Blood : Paperback : Little, Brown Book Group : 9780751579833 : 0751579831 : 29 Oct 2020 : The addictive new Detective Kim Stone thriller from multi-million-copy international bestseller Angela Marsons takes readers back to where it all began...
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Merchant: The Book Depository
Product ID: 9780751579833
MPN: 751579831
GTIN: 9780751579833
Author: Kay - Marie
Rating: 5
Review: I bought this book on the 24th Dec . I've finished it already .its the 30th . love the characters . love Kim she's awesome. Can't wait to get stick into her next adventure . so glad I got to read this pre qual first . an introduction to the team and background on them . brilliant . five stars from me x
Author: simoom
Rating: 2
Review: Lots of enthusiasm for this series so maybe I made a mistake reading the prequel first. I was not very impressed. Maybe I'm tired of detectives with troubled pasts (Kim's is particularly perverse and thoroughly bizarre); add to that the now formulaic social awkwardness and intuition of Saga Norén (perfectly developed in the Scandi series, 'The Bridge') and we're not dealing with anything very original here. In the book's favour, the characters on her team are varied and well-developed, actually quite convincing - and the procedural aspects of the investigation seem well-researched. Unfortunately, the first person narration of the initial murder scene is completely OTT, the nursery rhyme formula a ridiculous riff on Agatha Christie, and the actual killer a very unconvincing reveal. If you want to play fair with your readers, Ms. Marsons, you should keep the killer in their sights, give the culprit some psychological depth- more than 2 dimensions - not a cardboard cut-out, virtual 'extra' jumping out of the closet at the last minute.
