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Far Cry (2009)

by John Harvey(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0434016926 (ISBN13: 9780434016921)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

William Heinemann

series

Will Grayson and Helen Walker

review 1: A good book from an excellent writer but I had some issues. First, I hate it when a detective is sure a criminal has does something else wrong and becomes obsessed with finding it. The certainty is not based on fact but on the detective's instinct/intuition. Second, the guilty until proven innocent approach of all the policemen in this book annoyed me. Third,the author had so many threads going for at least half of the book that each chapter was different people and places. Still it was an excellent British procedural.
review 2: I truly love John Harvey mysteries. They are among the best of the British police procedurals and in each of the series, from Charlie Resnick and Frank Elder to D.I. Will Grayson, the characters are sympathetic and fully drawn. The sto... moreries develop in their own time, but with no wasted words and misjudged feints. The fog of the Cornwall coast feels as real as yesterday's weather report and the miserable lives behind the crimes can get a good man down, if he doesn't take good care. In this particularly strong offering, Harvey introduces us to two crusty male detectives who insist on fuller investigations than their colleagues, and bear their emnity for it. A female assistant D.I. is so clearly ready for more that we fear her professionalism may become compromised while she struggles to fill the gaps in her life. Harvey patiently wraps us in strands from several cold and current cases. No need to read this in conjunction with any of Harvey's others, but you'll probably want to, simply because Harvey makes you feel you spent a week away. less

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