When I want to sit down and just read without having to worry about deadlines or publication dates, I go to my TBR shelf and pluck something. Well, I’m still struggling to recover from post Covid fatigue, I’ve found that I want books that just entertain me rather than books that I’ve really got to think about. On this occasion I happened to pick this Val McDermid novel. I’ve read most of her books and I’ve always found them to be very entertaining. This one is introducing a new protagonist Allie Burns, who is a journalist. It’s all that you might expect from a McDermid novel. Plenty of action, plenty of red herrings, a painstaking attention to detail. Here it is the world of journalism at the end of the 70s. So, it’s a palpable read.
What is also interesting is that she wrote it during lockdown. It’s not the first book I’ve read by an author and it seems to me there could almost be an entire genre of lockdown literature! Granted you do need to concentrate on these type of thrillers but on the whole it’s an under demanding read that just lets you enjoy a book for the sheer escapism of it all. I believe this was a charity shop find.
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