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Cathy from Between The Traces Ebook Weblog recommends The Birdwatcher by William Shaw.
Cathy’s overview:
An enthusiastic chicken watcher, Sergeant William South has lived quietly on the atmospheric Kent coast at Dungeness for many of his life, content material along with his birding and dealing the native beat.
He’s at all times averted homicide investigations however when he’s given the duty of supporting Detective Sergeant Alexandra Cupidi, newly arrived from London together with her teenage daughter, it marks the start of a change to his ordered and comparatively solitary life. William’s neighbour, his solely actual pal and fellow chicken watcher, Bob Rayner, has been brutally murdered and DS Cupidi is investigating officer on the case.
“There have been two the explanation why William South didn’t wish to be on the homicide staff.
The primary was that it was October. The migrating birds had begun arriving on the coast.
The second was that, although no person knew, he was a assassin himself.“
That opening paragraph hooked me in immediately. It’s a on condition that William has a again story and it’s a compelling one, at that. The story alternates seamlessly between the previous with younger teenager Billy McGowan dwelling in Northern Eire throughout the Troubles, and William within the current. Billy’s father was a violent bully and Billy started chicken watching as an escape. An opportunity discovery units occasions in movement that can affect massively on Billy’s future and form his life.
Cupidi is eager to make her mark at some price to her troubled daughter, Zoe. In opposition to his higher judgement, William finds himself taking {the teenager} birding on the request of her mom, stunned when Zoe takes to it, and him, nearly instantly. It’s a brand new and uneasy expertise as William kinds a tentative and shifting relationship with each Cupidi and her daughter. The investigation into Bob Rayner’s dying is sophisticated, slowly uncovering secrets and techniques and lies, and all too quickly William’s previous catches up with him with the invention of an obvious suicide sufferer.
The Birdwatcher is an engrossing, character pushed and steadily paced police procedural with an enticing and properly fleshed out protagonist in William South. An evocatively described setting in its stark isolation and with a towering nuclear energy station overshadowing the realm provides ambiance, because the suspense and stress construct all through an especially properly devised plot.Â
I wasn’t fairly as invested in Alex Cupidi however it will likely be fascinating to see the place William Shaw takes her within the comply with on collection. I’d like to see William South seem once more in some unspecified time in the future.
Ebook description:
Sergeant William South has at all times averted investigating homicide. A passionate birdwatcher and quiet man, he has few relationships and prefers it that means.
However when his solely pal is discovered brutally overwhelmed, South’s detachment is examined. Not solely is he bereft – evidently there’s a connection between the suspect and himself.
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