Too soon to rate but I'm reading it now and we must be in a time warp. A guy walks into a room to talk to 2 women, then next chapter we go back in time and redo his life until he walks into the door again. This goes on constantly and is very distracting. Instant replays all over the place.
English writer, "You never saw him in the field much these days and if you did people just took the piss." Huh? I am stupified.
Men who spend their entire spare time bird watching...like it's soccer. In twitches. As in "he was a big twitcher in his day." Round these parts a twitch can be a female or female parts. And men? Bird watching since high school? Seriously? I mean more than one per novel? Really? ROTFLMAO
So much drivel about the past, everyone's relationships, their boring inner thoughts, people get tossed your way when writer is bored with whoever she's boring you with last chapter.
The cop seems dumb and uninvolved. He needs a woman's reassurance that taking pictures is how to begin the case. He has no tools, no gloves, calmly goes about the scene without calling anyone else, not protecting the scene from his shoes or fibers or anything. I am never told how he touches her, what he's looking for, what he sees beyond a knife in victims back. That's all I get.
There's a big storm, it's an island. No one can get in or out. Everything rests on his boring damn shoulders. Sheesh. Drama much? There is a lot of everyone being really dramatic and self centered. I don't really like it but shall plod on.
Still reading and now a victim's mom couldn't talk on the phone, had to meet the cop in person on the island. Was flown over and what mystical news is revealed? NOTHING. That's right. Lotta of that goin' around.
I'm done and lots of garbage in and not a lot of garbage out. I felt as tho the story fizzled to an end. Disappointed. For one thing: mr macho cop who doesn't have much in his head KNEW who the killer was (so he says) and still let his girlfriend in the general area. AND he read an email that pretty much detailed the motive for a murder and dismissed it. So yeah...he sucks as a cop. Good luck with that! P.S. No court in the land would let a child live with a total stranger over dad and grandparents. Not even with a handwritten piece of toilet paper for a will.
The book is called Blue Lightning (not Lightening). It is written in British English. It is the fourth of a sequence (Raven Black, White Nights, Red Bones being the first three.) Sorry you don't like it, I did.
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