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A Book of Scars
Written by William Shaw
Narrated by Cameron Stewart
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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1969. Five years ago, teenager Alexandra Tozer was murdered. Her sister Helen Tozer will never forget. Returning home after quitting the Met Police, she brings with her the recovering Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen, who slowly becomes possessed by the unsolved case. But Breen is on a trail, for the two men connected to this case met in Kenya, during the Mau Mau uprising; and the history that Britain has turned its face from is now returning to haunt it.
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Rating: 4.291666541666666 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I have always enjoyed this trilogy. Reading this final installment was definitely bittersweet for me and maybe that is why I read this so slowly. Breen and Helen are back and this time they are investigating the murder of Helen's sister that took place years ago. This investigation is personal and it just might get Breen in more danger than he's ever been (which is saying a lot considering his history). Breen starts investigating Alexandra's murder while recuperating on the Tozer family farm (well Helen really leads him to do it). While I did enjoy the investigation, and getting to read about Breen going undercover as a hippie, I felt that it really wasn't all that hard to figure out who the murderer was after a little while. Why that person murdered Alexandra remained a mystery for quite a while to me. What I loved about this book was the relationship between Breen and Helen. Something big happens between them and I loved it. Breen clearly loves Helen but Helen still wants to remain independent. I loved her stubbornness but ultimately loved where they ended up at the end. I am sad that this is the last I'll read of Breen and Helen.Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the galley.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5“Book of Scars” is William Shaw’s third in the Breen and Tozer series. As of October, 2018, there are four books in the series. The first three are available on Kindle but with different titles than the original British published ones. Just to complicate things a tad more, Shaw is concurrently writing a second Brit police procedural series centered on DS Alexandra Cupidi. Cupidi is a major character in the book, “The Birdwatcher” but for some reason this is listed as a stand-alone and not the first in the series. Why do I go through all this seeming nonsense? These are excellent novels. Read one and you’ll want to read more. There’s a little work trying to figure out titles, to avoid buying duplicates, to avoid buying a paperback when a preferred Kindle version is available (as I did!). Go to fantasticfiction.com and search for William Shaw; they do a great job of helping readers keep all this straight.I particularly enjoy the Breen & Tozer series. Most of the settings are London in the 1960s – with many references to the charming and unforgettable life experiences of the day – Beatlemania, red London phone boxes, old cabs, Nam headlines, protests. And some very interesting cases and characters. Tozer is one of the very first female homicide officers, and not exactly embraced by her colleagues, even her partner Breen. But on rare occasion, he breaks down just a wee bit and lets her drive. But only the car, certainly not the investigation. Tozer has suffered a crushing tragedy in her family life four years ago – her sister was tortured and brutally murdered on the family farm. Circumstances bring the Breen and Tozer together on the farm in “Book of Scars”, and Tozer manipulates Breen into reviewing some old case files of the local police….While I strongly recommend this book, I also suggest that you start this series at the beginning with book #1, probably my favorite, but they are all good. Just this once I’ll help you shop, for book #1. The original title was available as “A Song from Dead Lips”; it’s available from Amazon only as a paperback for $14.73 + 3.99 shipping, no prime. OR you can get the same book but with the title “She’s Leaving Home” (think about that title) as a paperback $14.65 (prime) or Kindle version $9.99. Enjoy!