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A Simple Act of Violence

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Winner of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2010.

 

April 2009 Book of the Month.

 

R J Ellory was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library 2009 - the prize awarded for an author's body of work.

 

This one is big, 500 pages, but all go too fast.  It is a police procedural one, the story of murdered women who appear not to exist.  Taking place in Washington in the mid-term elections, it’s the last thing the police want but we get election politics mixed into a complicated investigation, which is fascinating.  Moving, disturbing and thought-provoking, it grips from the start.

 

Comparison: Dennis Lehane, Stieg Larsson, Tom Rob Smith.

 

Sarah Broadhurst

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