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Review by Chrissi (010702) Rating (8/10) Review
by Chrissi Harry is investigating this rather sad and gruesome find when he meets a rookie police person, Julia. She and Harry become friends when he asks to borrow her torch. The initial course of the investigation to find who killed the young boy considers a paedophile, living in the street, near to where the body was found. Harry is not convinced, but when a leak about this course of the investigation leads to a newspaper report and the subsequent suicide of the man, Harry is disturbed and thinks that his new friend may be responsible. This is not really a very light book, Harry is struggling with something and when Julia dies in a gunfire fight with a suspect, Harry knows that all is not immediately as it seems. It really seems to knock him for six, and it leaves us not knowing what he will do next. This is one of those stories about a crime of a lesser magnitude than many of those that Harry has investigated before. It is not a serial killer, or a very gruesome death, but a young abused boy whose skeleton has lain undiscovered for years, and Harry finds himself deeply disturbed by it all. I
think that maybe because it is such a poignant story about the
little boy it makes you think; it is good that even in death someone
like Harry cares enough to want to solve the mystery and allow
him to lie in peace. |
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