The Ramblings of a Retired Female Private Detective....
Every time I pick up a book to read, I hope it would be a good choice. It probably is only in a perfect world that such an event happens every time. I occasionally do end up reading such not so great work. If I was asked why I would bother to write a review on such a book, having wasted time reading it, then I would say "this isn't a perfect world and whatever the outcome I can't stop talking about what I've read". This is one such occasion.
Jim Curtis holds the memory stick which has a secret formula to strengthen the cladding of airplane wings. When he is accidentally killed, the memory sticks are untraceable. Laura Curtis, Jim's wife, and her two children now find themselves trapped in a web of an international conspiracy. Laura moves her family to Tredunnon, hoping to start afresh but unless she finds those memory sticks, her family will always be in danger.
Who is Franz Reimann? And why was he keen on buying Jim's company? Can Danny Myers , Jim's partner be trusted? Lots of questions and Laura has no one to take help from and the police wouldn't even investigate the mysterious circumstances of Jim's death. Maybe the handyman, Andy Simpson knows more than just fixing taps.
I found this book on Netgalley, the intriguing title and a fairly decent book cover convinced me to download it. Nothing else about the book is impressive. A desperation to make it a page turner is apparent all through the book. As the narrative style is mostly from Laura Curtis's point of view, not much detail is provided on Jim's work and I would have liked to read more about it. Being retired, the private detective Laura, plays a rather subdued role. The only skill she displays of ever having been a detective, are a few karate moves. The characters were superficial, the plot weak and the writing amateurish , a book I wish I had not read.
