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Crack Down (2006)

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0006490085 (ISBN13: 9780006490081)
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harpercollins publishers

Crack Down (2006) - Plot & Excerpts

Third in the Kate Brannigan series, and more interesting than the last one, this has her investigating a drugs ring when her boyfriend Richard is arrested for driving a car with 2kg of crack in the boot. She drags in some of her friends that we've met in previous books to help when Richard's son shows up for a visit, so she can do a lot of driving around doing surveillance, while wearing dubious 90s fashion and eating a lot of junk food. As before, these books feel very dated now, although at least she's acquired a mobile phone and doesn't have to explain what a modem is now, but the musical references are a good reminder that this was published 20 years ago, and Val has developed a lot as a writer since then.It's not bad, she's a likeable enough heroine and there are some witty jokes, but nowhere near as good as the Tony Hill series.

What do You think about Crack Down (2006)?

My encounters with this genre being based mostly on Agatha Christie, I'm not really an expert as detective stories go, but I liked this novel...The main reason probably being that I liked the heroine. Kate B. is really unromantic, down to earth, no nonsense kind of heroine... The reason why I haven't been attracted to this kind of novels is that lately I feel bombarded on the subject of murder by the media, especially the television (How many CSI shows are there, something like 10? and sometimes it feels like there isn't anything but crime and murder in the media) That being said, the story did not seem as something already seen. However, the ending was not difficult to guess but maybe that is to be expected. Easy to read. Fun.
—Ivana

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