Rain Girl starts with a young girl in a sparkling dress staggering along the autobahn in the pouring rain, before being hit and her life ending. It does rely on the word rain quite a lot in the first few chapters...It's a book that shows you the scenes it is moving through very descriptively by senses, predominately smell, touch and taste. This was refreshing and made for a different tone of reading which I enjoyed as it effectively transported you into the scene. I enjoyed the tone of the main protagonist as well, Female detective Franza Oberweiser. She was direct and though she had quite a lot of life baggage, it didn't feel emotional and this detachment along with the sensory input of the story itself worked well together. It's a quick read and the tone of the book seemed to change at the end. It became a bit more frantic as we had chapters in the killers point of view (who was frantic) and for me this didn't gel sensory descriptive and detached tone of the rest of the book.I did like Oberweiser though so I would probably give her another read should this be a series detective.With thanks to the author and publisher for my copy via Netgalley. Rain Girl is a touching tale and an excellent. Sad but engaging and we'll written. It's a story of happenstance to a certain extent but also with an underlay of an unfortunate outcome. Marie is the person who is at the Centre of the story, but also Franza and Feliz, two homicide detectives whose objective is to find out why Marie ends up dead after an accident on the Autobahn near Berlin. For some reason, definitely not planned, I am reading stories about the countries I am currently visiting. The death of Marie becomes very personal for Franza when she discovers that she was in a relationship with her son Ben. This is a well constructed and easy to read thriller and I'm happy to recommend it.
What do You think about Das Regenmädchen (2010)?
Kind of different, set in another country. Intriguing characters.
—maggie
Good book, nothing spectacular , but it did keep my interest
—lightblade23
my husband knows me well .... great pick!
—eelisabeth66
