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From Publishers Weekly
Det. Insp. Orla McLeod goes undercover in Glasgow's underworld, then heads to the highlands with the nine-year-old boy who saves her life. As the novel opens, Orla is about to become the victim of the infamous gangster who brutally murdered her partner, Luke; her only hope is Jamie, who just saw his mother die and is the only one who can identify the killer. Injured in the crossfire, Jamie is taken by Orla and fellow officer Murdo Cameron to her mother's mountain hideaway to recuperate in the care of Orla's friends. But who are her friends? Someone on her team may be working for the other side and her mother's neighbors may not be what they seem. And even Orla's past including memories of her crusading father's assassination by the Irish villains he tried to put behind bars is not what she thinks it is. Scott's prose suits her tough yet sensitive heroine and her storytelling is equally unflinching. Graphic violence contrasts with wilderness beauty in a thriller that has plenty of touching moments, as when Orla and Murdo manipulate Jamie's computer records to create an artificial family for him. Scott, whose first novel, Hen's Teeth, was a finalist for the Orange Prize, delivers humane characters and supercriminals, romance without sentimentality, and adventure without easy answers. Orla McLeod's American debut ensures that she will take her place in the top ranks of fictional female detectives.
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From Booklist
Scott's fourth crime novel introduces a new cast of characters, members of a fictional special branch of the Glasgow police. In the initial scene, detective Orla McLeod is involved in a shootout in a dismal flat where she has been living undercover. Her cover is blown, her partner is killed, and she is saved from certain death by 9-year-old Jamie, whose mother also dies in the flat. The target of the operation is Tord Svensen, a violent criminal whose true identity is unknown--to everyone but Jamie, who has seen his face. This is an unflinching portrayal of police work at its dirtiest--Orla gives herself body and soul, literally, to find Svensen and to keep Jamie safe. Her life story, gradually revealed (and frighteningly relevant to the present), lends authenticity to her tough yet vulnerable persona. What's missing from this dark, politically charged read is backstory--the obviously close-knit relationships between Orla and her partners are never fully explained. Perhaps Scott's next project should be a prequel. Carrie Bissey
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Det. Insp. Orla McLeod goes undercover in Glasgow's underworld, then heads to the highlands with the nine-year-old boy who saves her life. As the novel opens, Orla is about to become the victim of the infamous gangster who brutally murdered her partner, Luke; her only hope is Jamie, who just saw his mother die and is the only one who can identify the killer. Injured in the crossfire, Jamie is taken by Orla and fellow officer Murdo Cameron to her mother's mountain hideaway to recuperate in the care of Orla's friends. But who are her friends? Someone on her team may be working for the other side and her mother's neighbors may not be what they seem. And even Orla's past including memories of her crusading father's assassination by the Irish villains he tried to put behind bars is not what she thinks it is. Scott's prose suits her tough yet sensitive heroine and her storytelling is equally unflinching. Graphic violence contrasts with wilderness beauty in a thriller that has plenty of touching moments, as when Orla and Murdo manipulate Jamie's computer records to create an artificial family for him. Scott, whose first novel, Hen's Teeth, was a finalist for the Orange Prize, delivers humane characters and supercriminals, romance without sentimentality, and adventure without easy answers. Orla McLeod's American debut ensures that she will take her place in the top ranks of fictional female detectives.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Scott's fourth crime novel introduces a new cast of characters, members of a fictional special branch of the Glasgow police. In the initial scene, detective Orla McLeod is involved in a shootout in a dismal flat where she has been living undercover. Her cover is blown, her partner is killed, and she is saved from certain death by 9-year-old Jamie, whose mother also dies in the flat. The target of the operation is Tord Svensen, a violent criminal whose true identity is unknown--to everyone but Jamie, who has seen his face. This is an unflinching portrayal of police work at its dirtiest--Orla gives herself body and soul, literally, to find Svensen and to keep Jamie safe. Her life story, gradually revealed (and frighteningly relevant to the present), lends authenticity to her tough yet vulnerable persona. What's missing from this dark, politically charged read is backstory--the obviously close-knit relationships between Orla and her partners are never fully explained. Perhaps Scott's next project should be a prequel. Carrie Bissey
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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- Boudica: Dreaming the Bull (Boudica Quadrilogy (Paperback)) (Boudica Trilogy) by Manda Scott in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Scottish Girls About Town: And sixteen other Scottish women authors by Jenny Colgan on page 83