Dark Flight
by:
Lin Anderson (author)
'..The face that stared at him through the glass was his mum's, but it didn't look like her. Stephen's mouth dropped open and real fear grabbed his stomach. His mum's face was chalk white, her mouth twisted in pain. Behind her was a dark shadow. Stephen dropped the bones. ' A six year-old boy has...
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'..The face that stared at him through the glass was his mum's, but it didn't look like her. Stephen's mouth dropped open and real fear grabbed his stomach. His mum's face was chalk white, her mouth twisted in pain. Behind her was a dark shadow. Stephen dropped the bones. ' A six year-old boy has vanished, his mother and grandmother horrifically murdered. At the scene forensic scientist Rhona Macleod finds a chilling African talisman, made from the bones of a child. Can she decipher its meaning and track Stephen down before he becomes the next link in the killers' chain?
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B004JHY6LE
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Series: Rhona MacLeod (#4)
Muti Murder in Glasgow, complicated relationships get more complicated
I enjoyed this book, with its British and African locations and its clash of cultures. The characters are interesting, and the writing style is smooth. I really wanted to find out who was guilty and who was innocent and who did what why.
A good read if just a little bit formulaic, although that might be a little harsh. A cross between 'Silent Witness' and 'Rebus' as a team of Glasgow based Forensic scientists investigate the murder and sexual mutilation of a woman and her mother witnessed by the woman's young son who goes missing fr...