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About The Children
by Carol Westron
The discovery of two
boys shot dead, both under the age of twelve in a quiet suburban
park
is a gruelling find.
Assigned to the case is Superintendent Tyler head of Saltern's
Serious
Crimes Team, and
with his regular second-in-command on sick leave his new DI is Gill
Martin. There are
however five victims, three dead; a woman and the two children, and
two
wounded, a man and a
young woman. As the SOCO team proceed to sift the evidence it be-
comes a possibility
that there were three children present at the time of the attack, and
if so
where is the third
child?
Whilst his team try
to establish the train of events, such as who was shot first, Tyler,
Gill
Martin and his
Sergeant Kerry Buller visit the parents. Jasmin and Ian Quantrull
confirm that
their youngest child
Charlie had gone to the park with his two brothers.
As Tyler and his
team investigate the lives of the five victims, trying to establish a
motive, the questions abound
. Were these random killings? Who were
the intended victims? But the overriding urgency is ‘Where is
Charlie’
As complicated as is
his job, so to is Tyler. Having recently returned from a course in
the USA on children
who commit violent acts Tyler reluctantly begins
to look at the two boys . An avid reader Tyler has a habit
of
finding passages from books leaping into his mind as he goes about
his job. Something that helps him make
sense of the ugliness he so
regularly encounters, but which he keeps locked away from his
colleagues. It will be
interesting to learn more of Tyler. And also
of Gill Martin.
Complex and
compelling this is a fascinating mystery and even as the layers of
the lives of both victims and family members are stripped away, as
the investigation progresses you will still be eagerly turning the
pages to know
the identity of the killer. A marvelous second book, I
look forward to the next. Most highly recommended.
------
Reviewer: Lizzie
Hayes
About the
Children is published by Pentangle Press, April 2014.
ISBN:
978-1-4952-32107-7
www.carolwestron.com
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