Neil White’s Lost Souls [ISBN 978-1-84756-018-6] was another quite-difficult-to get into book for me. Its those choppy narratives again – though these are better done than most, there is such a tendency to introduce a myriad of unrelated information in the first few chapters, that the reader can lose focus. It is also quite downbeat, even though the northern context is interesting, it sets a quite bleak background to the story, though the plot is not bad, the readers’ beliefs are stretched somewhat at times.
Neil White’s Lost Souls [ISBN 978-1-84756-018-6] was another quite-difficult-to get into book for me. Its those choppy narratives again – though these are better done than most, there is such a tendency to introduce a myriad of unrelated information in the first few chapters, that the reader can lose focus. It is also quite downbeat, even though the northern context is interesting, it sets a quite bleak background to the story, though the plot is not bad, the readers’ beliefs are stretched somewhat at times.
DC Laura McGanity has relocated from London to the northern mill town of Blackley (Burnley?) and is living with her young son and reporter boyfriend Jack Garrett (who is back in his hometown). Laura has her job set up to counter local relationships in the police force and to stay upbeat about her relationship as she keeps getting snarled up in her investigation with Jack’s newspaperman’s sleuthing. They are both focusing on the serial abductions of young boys that become murders, and it appears that Jack and his family are also in danger.
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