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Slow-paced thriller fails to deliver in this soap-like crime mystery
The third instalment in bestselling author Jane Harper’s Aaron Falk series keeps the reader waiting too long for both thrills and answers
Martin Amis once remarked how his father Kingsley, later in life, couldn’t face a book that didn’t have a shot ring out at least once during its first few pages. I kind of know how he felt. It’s all very well trying to better oneself by wrestling with the latest literary head scratcher, but sometimes what you really want is a well-woven plot plus a few twists and turns.
With that in mind, I picked ...