Started this one, very very confusing beginning. It's a bloody English writer. Not a fan -but will continue. This female cop enjoys men staring at her breasts, she wants to be a piece of meat. Good for her. She's driving around for 4 days with a dead body in her car and can't smell it when she drives the car? Back to WTF land of weirdness.
Pet peeve; when writers pretend the main character is so dumb, blind or deaf that when something is occuring, such as a dive- she can't see what's around her at all. Something mysterious passes by and floats above her and she just can't seem to see it. So like real life.
Well shall plod on with gear stowed in boots, search units, derelict squats, torches and what not. Quote "she'd cocked up an emergency procedure...." page 15. Clueless. More weird language: dob me in; body armour sometimes gave her gyp; I'm not a snout.
She's a cop. Her brother kills someone puts the body in her car then she drives it around 4 days not even noticing. AND she can lift a dead weight body which has expanded and drips gross crap out of the trunk of a car- alone. Do not believe. Ya lost me there. And come on; 4 days? Hot car boot? Get real. Shove it up your oxymoron.
So being the swell cop that she is (wish she drowned first chapter) covers up the crime by dicking around with the corpse and a freezer. In reality if she tried to move a 4 day old body as in this story it would have come apart. If she yanked an arm body fluids would ooze everywhere, there would be nothing to grab, skin would peel off. Her car boot would be covered with ooze. She could not burn the rug from the boot and get rid of the stench. She would have had to burn the entire car and still that may not work and for sure it'd still stink to high heaven.
BTW in this book she dives solo and I guess in England they let Darwin win more often but in the US no one dives without a buddy.
Somehow about half way thru it the tension about what this cop is going to do with the body, and what's she going to do about her brother keeps me reading. Then plot twists and things keep rolling along. I am actually hooked on the story right now but it did take me half the book. The writer needs to get rid of the English slang, explain things in more depth at the beginning without referring to past crimes that are remaining untold. Don't bring your past old books in the new one. IDGAS. If she did that earlier it'd have been easier to fall into. Giving it an ok rating but it was a struggle to get here.
And another writer who has evil crime committing police. It's rampant cop killers everywhere. Really not a fan.
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