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Let the dead speak
Jane Casey
Synopsis
Chloe Emery comes home to find there’s blood everywhere and her mum’s missing. She is interviewed by Maeve Kerrigan- a newly promoted Detective Sergeant who suspects that Chloe is keeping secrets.
Casey introduces Chloe and her troubled relationship with her stepmother Belinda straightaway, as Chloe is still thinking about some of the comments that Belinda has made when she returns home. Casey writes the first chapter from Chloe’s third person point of view, and allows us to see that Chloe sees the world in a slightly different way to many people. Chloe is not confident about reading other people’s reactions to her.
The majority of the novel is from Maeve’s first person point of view, and she’s quite a astute observer of those around her. Maeve doesn’t have a lot of time for her DC Georgia, considering her to only really respect those who can advance her career within the police.
Casey creates a well structured and complex mystery, with a interesting central investigator in Maeve. I found myself feeling tremendous sympathy for Chloe, and her friend as well. Casey isn’t heavy handed with her characters, creating some distinct and memorable people within the novel.
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I'm a thirty something woman who lives in the north of England. I have been a writer for as long as I can remember, creating stories both written and verbal since childhood. While studying at Edge Hill College, I got several poems published by a small publisher in the USA, and in Europe. I have been part of several writing groups, and done quite a few courses in a attempt to hone my writing skills further. I love reading different genres of fiction, knowing that the best way to develop my own writing, and my vocabulary is by exposing myself to the different ways that other people choose to describe things.
The most recent writing course that I've been part of, run by a published author, included a exercise in which we were challenged to read things that we would never usually even look at.
It inspired me to take up a challenge. Namely to attempt to read at least one book by every author which is stocked in my local library. I soon realised that I was being far too ambitious, especially given the fact that every library rotates their stock too often for me to keep track.
I've decided to instead attempt to read a book every day, starting with a author whose surname begins with A, and ending with a author whose surname begins with Z. It doesn't matter what the topic of the book is, or if it's fiction or non fiction, everything is useful for me at the minute.
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