Driftnet Rhona Macleod Book 1 edition by Lin Anderson Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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A driftnet catches everything.
A teenage boy is found mutilated in a Glasgow flat. Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is called to the scene, but her grim task is even more unsettling than normal by the boy's remarkable resemblance to her - Could he be the son she gave up for adoption seventeen years before?
Amidst the turmoil of her own love life and consumed by guilt from the past, Rhona sets out to find both the boy’s killer and her own son. The powerful members of an Internet paedophile ring have nothing to lose and everything to gain by Rhona MacLeod’s death.
Driftnet Rhona Macleod Book 1 edition by Lin Anderson Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
I love reading non-US/British mysteries. I love them, and I have found the ones set in parts of Africa and more to be excellent and just as good writers or locales as any others out there. Therefore, when I started with these from Scotland, I was expecting to be impressed. However, I have been disappointed in Lin Anderson. I bought the 3-book set (Driftnet-Torch-Deadly Code) all together since I like to read series like one long story--to get immersed in the setting, the people, and so on.The first one had a dreadful-hysterical hero, a cheap shot early murder red-herring to get the reader all worked up for the hero, and not one likable character except one policeman. At the end there was no end, just stopping with the proverbial 'is he still alive?' hanger for somewhere down the series line. Then I read the next just to see if it were better. Well,no. It was worse. Still that always angry and confused hero--so much so after two books, I looked to see if Ms. Anderson was a former romance novelist. Romance authors often cannot leave the hysterical female and the conflicted hostile relationships with men out when they turn to the lucrative mystery market.
But I struggled on to the end of Torch. There is NO real story of the fires; no connection of any of the plot lines if there were any plotlines, except some loose comments near the end appearing as an afterthought--to put all the killings and fires, etc. together. After pages of rehashing the relationships, the retelling of what everyone thought...oh, yes, I must finish up. There were more convenient situations of the bad guy(s) finding out things and being places than even sort of possible with poetic license. A son that shows once and conveniently is put in dangerous situation that truly defies any story telling. Cruelty for cruelty sake. Killing of the kinds that make all readers enraged...since no one is much concerned about humans. There is still this constant angry-unhappy with everyone heroine that can't manage any relationship at all--I guess we are supposed to like her for saying no to one guy. Holy moly. This was more than boring. And well, I can only say that the glowing reviews I have read? Maybe we who love Scotland feel a need to get Scot writers a wider audience...but why terrible ones? I am truly sorry. I really wanted to like Lin Anderson's books.
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Driftnet Rhona Macleod Book 1 edition by Lin Anderson Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
This is the first outing for forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod and as a debut it shows a good deal of promise. The author writes with assurance and has created in Rhona a likeable and interesting lead character.
The plot is fairly standard crime/thriller fare - a paedophilia ring are grooming young boys over the internet and then blackmailing them into sex. When the abuse escalates to murder, Rhona and her colleagues are called on to investigate. Anderson writes well and keeps the pace swift making this an enjoyable page-turner. On the downside, there is heavy reliance on coincidence with the old device of the law enforcers becoming personally involved in the plot. The author also tries to create tension by skipping forward and then going back to explain, but she uses this device too often with the result that it becomes intrusive and an annoyance. I also felt that, though the story is based in Glasgow, there was no particular feel for the city - as compared, say, to Rankin's Edinburgh where the city plays a major role in the books; this book could as easily have been set in any city in the UK.
Despite these criticisms, this is a very readable and promising first novel and I will certainly go on to read the next in the series. Lin Anderson is considered to be one of the writers in the 'Tartan Noir' genre of crime fiction and, while on this showing she still has some way to go to rival the Rankins and McDermids of this world, I believe that with this book she has made a creditable entry into the field. Recommended.
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Obtained what I ordered, when it was promised, in the condition I expected. I would use this vendor without hesitation in the future.
This textbook was required for my daughter's college class. I did not read it; ordered it for her use.
Although I am a fan of tartan noir, and mysteries in general, and like authors such as Denise Mina and Val McDermid, I found this book too sexually explicit for me. It had a lot of good elements and was a page turner but I felt that the author threw in a lot more kinky sex than was warranted. I also found some typos, as another reviewer mentioned; I seem to be finding these more and more in the books.
Good storyline and characters! Enjoyed the Glasgow setting!
DRIFTNET (Rhona MacLeod Book #1) by Lin Anderson is a very gritty Scotland noir. The setting is Glasgow and centers on a paedophile ring which seeks out and befriends young boys, then blackmails them for sex.
Our main character is forensic scientist, Dr. Rhona MacLeod.
I like the side stories here - Dr. MacLeod’s meeting the mysterious man she suspects may be the elusive ‘Simon’; her past affair with Edward; her co-worker and friend, Chrissy, with her family problems; police officer Bill Wilson and on-again/off-again live in, Sean.
A very readable narrative with an interesting ‘sense of place’. A gripping, brutal at times, crime drama.
I love reading non-US/British mysteries. I love them, and I have found the ones set in parts of Africa and more to be excellent and just as good writers or locales as any others out there. Therefore, when I started with these from Scotland, I was expecting to be impressed. However, I have been disappointed in Lin Anderson. I bought the 3-book set (Driftnet-Torch-Deadly Code) all together since I like to read series like one long story--to get immersed in the setting, the people, and so on.
The first one had a dreadful-hysterical hero, a cheap shot early murder red-herring to get the reader all worked up for the hero, and not one likable character except one policeman. At the end there was no end, just stopping with the proverbial 'is he still alive?' hanger for somewhere down the series line. Then I read the next just to see if it were better. Well,no. It was worse. Still that always angry and confused hero--so much so after two books, I looked to see if Ms. Anderson was a former romance novelist. Romance authors often cannot leave the hysterical female and the conflicted hostile relationships with men out when they turn to the lucrative mystery market.
But I struggled on to the end of Torch. There is NO real story of the fires; no connection of any of the plot lines if there were any plotlines, except some loose comments near the end appearing as an afterthought--to put all the killings and fires, etc. together. After pages of rehashing the relationships, the retelling of what everyone thought...oh, yes, I must finish up. There were more convenient situations of the bad guy(s) finding out things and being places than even sort of possible with poetic license. A son that shows once and conveniently is put in dangerous situation that truly defies any story telling. Cruelty for cruelty sake. Killing of the kinds that make all readers enraged...since no one is much concerned about humans. There is still this constant angry-unhappy with everyone heroine that can't manage any relationship at all--I guess we are supposed to like her for saying no to one guy. Holy moly. This was more than boring. And well, I can only say that the glowing reviews I have read? Maybe we who love Scotland feel a need to get Scot writers a wider audience...but why terrible ones? I am truly sorry. I really wanted to like Lin Anderson's books.
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