After You Die

Written by Eva Dolan

Review written by Gwen Moffat

Gwen Moffat lives in Cumbria. Her novels are set in remote communities ranging from the Hebrides to the American West. The crimes fit their environment, swelling that dreadful record of sin in the smiling countryside cited by Sherlock Holmes.


After You Die
Harvill Secker
RRP: £12.99
Released: January 21 2016
HBK

Definitely not a domestic novel despite its being concerned with families, both civilian and police. Thereare fathers: faithful, absconding, hard done by; there are pregnant mothers and children of varying ages.

The prologue features a small boy running from some nameless horror so it’s comforting to find D.I. Zigic of Peterborough’s Hate Crimes Unit and father of two, painting the nursery the wrong shade of pink in expectation of the birth of a daughter.

Domestic equilibrium stops there. A second pregnant mother is Julia who fosters terribly abused children, one of whom is the boy now on the run. Meanwhile, at the local kennels, a single mother lives with both her loutish son, and the husband of Dawn, a distressed and shadowy nymphomaniac who has been found stabbed to death in her kitchen while upstairs her paralysed daughter has died unattended. Both mother and daughter have been suffering harassment, the one by a persistent watcher, the other by way of on-line abuse and death threats Zigic and his colleague, Ferreira, have a wide circle of suspects: apart from the usual – family members, friends, tradesmen - it transpires that the murdered woman found sexual partners on the internet: 38 in the  current year.

Throughout the story there is the running thread of Ferreira’s fight with the after effects of a wound sustained when a suicide bomber blew himself up. She has shrapnel embedded in her legs which she digs out herself when the pain becomes unbearable.

And there is Nathan, the child on the run from earth mother Julia,  but overtaken by Rachel: a sinister authority figure who appears to be on his side but against the police, while both are privy to a dreadful secret the exposure of which would surely solve everything and identify Dawn’s killer.

Eventually Zigic realises that the police have been led down several blind alleys, in other words: red herrings which the reader may forgive because they are quite well done. There are rather too many interviews however and not enough action, as happens when the murders are in the past and now it’s all investigation. The end is predictable and unsatisfactory.

free pharmacy discount card open walgreens in store coupons
walgreens photo deals best free pharmacy discount card coupon code for walgreens photo
sildenafil citrate 130mg jcmikkelsen.dk prednisolone 20mg
forms of abortion blog.robard.com coupons promo codes
coupons for prescription medications interview-questions.sumedh.in pfizer viagra coupon
how much does it cost for an abortion read medical abortion pill
free cialis coupon read cialis free sample coupons
sumatriptan migraine headache http://sumatriptannow.com/migraine-headache sumatriptan migraine headache
acheter viagra livraison 48h acheter viagra livraison 48h acheter viagra livraison 48h
free prescription drug discount card site cialis savings and coupons
levitra 10mg levitra20 levitra
cialis discount coupons online myvisajobs.com coupon for prescriptions
cialis discount cialis coupon cheap cialis
prescriptions coupons cialis prescription coupon cialis free sample coupons
manual vacuum abortion how to terminate pregnancy naturally diagnostic dilation and curettage
best site for coupons andreinfo coupon sites
getting an abortion pill where to get an abortion pill misoprostol abortion
online coupons sites coupon promo codes website for coupons
cialis coupon code free cialis coupons printable cialis coupon
priligy thailand priligy keskustelu priligy 30 mg
lilly cialis coupon artsricksha.com cialis discount coupon
abortion pill debate lupidellamajella.it how to get an abortion pill
priligy thailand community.vitechcorp.com priligy apteekki
information about abortion pill buy abortion pill average cost of abortion
about abortion pill how much is a abortion pill teenage abortion pill
acetazolamide 250 mg tablets acetazolamide acetazolamide blood brain barrier
abortion centers abortion pills online consequences of abortion
whats ldn centaurico.com low dose ldn
shot for alcohol cravings click naltrxone
tolterodin nebenwirkungen doseringholdbarhed.site tolterodin fass


Home
Book Reviews
Features
Interviews
News
Columns
Authors
Blog
About Us
Contact Us

Privacy Policy | Contact Shots Editor

THIS WEBSITE IS © SHOTS COLLECTIVE. NOT TO BE REPRODUCED ELECTRONICALLY EITHER WHOLLY OR IN PART WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION OF THE EDITOR.