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Aug 1, 2012

Thoughts on Hand for A Hand

It's a good job that thriller writers only exercise their imagination on the page. They only plot heists and murders, they don't carry them out.

The arc I got superglued to over the weekend is Hand for a Hand by T Frank Muir, a police procedural where the investigating detective is the target (it says that in the blurb so I am not giving anything away)

Most writers use the 'detective gets pulled into the case, killer becomes obsessed with detective (in this case the detective is usually female) Muir takes his character, DCI Andy Gilchrist, by the throat and hits him, hard and then he hits him some more. Sharp, fast paced. I'm hoping the St Andrews area has more crimes for Gilchrist to solve.

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