12-30-2023, 10:17 AM
The Craftsmen by Sharon Bolton
A quick read. A retiring police officer goes to the funeral of the man who was the central figure in the case the brought her to prominence after he spent thirty years in jail for his crimes. But clues and leads Florence Lovelady to question whether they put away the right man for the murders. The novel runs on two timelines as we go back and forth from thirty years ago to the current day. As a young constable, Florence, called Flossie by her fellow officers, gets a lot of grief for being too posh and smart for the area. But she pushes to find out why the three teenagers were missing
The story is all well and good and straightforward until towards the end a big supernatural element creeps in that seemed at odds with the realistic tone of the book. I like a good supernatural mystery as much as the next one but this seemed to come out of left field. But overall the story was quite good.
A quick read. A retiring police officer goes to the funeral of the man who was the central figure in the case the brought her to prominence after he spent thirty years in jail for his crimes. But clues and leads Florence Lovelady to question whether they put away the right man for the murders. The novel runs on two timelines as we go back and forth from thirty years ago to the current day. As a young constable, Florence, called Flossie by her fellow officers, gets a lot of grief for being too posh and smart for the area. But she pushes to find out why the three teenagers were missing
The story is all well and good and straightforward until towards the end a big supernatural element creeps in that seemed at odds with the realistic tone of the book. I like a good supernatural mystery as much as the next one but this seemed to come out of left field. But overall the story was quite good.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm