This is a prequel novella by the writer of The Ruin and The Scholar, the first of which I read last year before deciding I didn’t like it. I picked this up from Audible orginals, and now I am thinking I’ll likely go back and read the second one. I ended up liking this one more than I thought I would. It takes place some ten years before that one and focuses on the police detective and also her sister, a young lawyer, working together on a case in which a man has been arrested for the murder of his girlfriend. He maintains that he was home asleep after a public row in a bar, that according to one of her friends was about their breaking up. When asked about this testimony, the accused contends that he has no idea this person is and that the fight was not about breaking up, but about his wanting to go on a holiday with his friends. This leads both sisters to use their respective lanes and talents to investigate what they can about the crime. You can imagine that they find a more complicated story than originally understood.
Like I said, this was better than I had thought it was going to be. I am wondering now if I simply picked that book at the wrong time or what exactly it was. It’s also possible that given that this is the third of the books in the city, and this one was more put together than the previous ones. Regardless.
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