Just One Evil Act by Elizabeth George
Sorry I haven't posted an updated in a while but I've been working my way through the 700+-page new offering from Elizabeth George.
One Evil Act picks up where the previous book ended--Haddiyyah, the daughter of London cop Barbara Havers' neighbor Azhar has vanished, kidnapped by her mother and there's no trace of either of them to be found. It soon comes out that the mother has absconded to Italy, where the girl was again kidnapped and now no one knows where she is. Barbara is desperate to help her friend, regardless of the cost to her career--and the cost may be high.
There are plenty of plot twists--and even when you think the story is over, there are still hundreds of pages of plot to unravel. There is also a side story about Barbara's partner, Thomas, moving on in his personal life after the untimely death of his pregnant wife in an earlier book.
All and all it's a good and engrossing story--but it might have been even better if it were about 200 pages shorter. My one quibble is that much of the dialogue during the Italian scenes is in Italian--with no translation. I'm not sure if E.G. did that so we would be as frustrated as Barbara was at not understanding what anyone was saying around her, but I found it a little annoying.
One Evil Act picks up where the previous book ended--Haddiyyah, the daughter of London cop Barbara Havers' neighbor Azhar has vanished, kidnapped by her mother and there's no trace of either of them to be found. It soon comes out that the mother has absconded to Italy, where the girl was again kidnapped and now no one knows where she is. Barbara is desperate to help her friend, regardless of the cost to her career--and the cost may be high.
There are plenty of plot twists--and even when you think the story is over, there are still hundreds of pages of plot to unravel. There is also a side story about Barbara's partner, Thomas, moving on in his personal life after the untimely death of his pregnant wife in an earlier book.
All and all it's a good and engrossing story--but it might have been even better if it were about 200 pages shorter. My one quibble is that much of the dialogue during the Italian scenes is in Italian--with no translation. I'm not sure if E.G. did that so we would be as frustrated as Barbara was at not understanding what anyone was saying around her, but I found it a little annoying.
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