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rank 2966
word count 11155
date submitted 10.12.2010
date updated 10.12.2010
genres: Thriller, Crime
classification: moderate
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Vile City

JT

Three women have gone missing in the fair city, victims of the Glasgow Grabber… DI Waddell is the man called in to find them..

 

DI Duncan Waddell has major problems. He’s borderline diabetic, the paperwork’s piling up faster than knickers at a porn shoot and the country’s biggest case has landed on his lap. Three women have gone missing in the fair city, victims of the man dubbed the Glasgow Grabber by hack and all round pain in the bahookie Catriona Hastie. Can Waddell find them before its too late? Waddell must find the truth in a city he loves, but is fast starting to despise because of all the bad things he had seen. Along the way he is hampered by the lies that people tell and DC Brian McKeith who will never be as good as the man who came before him.

 
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abductions, crime, detective, glasgow, murder, mystery, sex trade, vile city, women

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Suzannah Burke wrote 531 days ago

I have read the first four chapters, intending initially to read one or two. That is always a good sign. The book is well crafted and the pacing is excellent. I like the characterizations as well and they are wonderfully visual, I can see the police officer struggling to get his 6'3" frame from the car, i can feel the cold, and hear the disdain in the DI's voice.

Several expressions threw me a little, and you may find quite a few folks who are from elsewhere on the planet having to ask for translation of some , I am an Australian so found the accented writing understandable on the whole.
You don't want the story to lose it's Glaswegian charm, so the expressions must of course stay. Taggart is I take it a Television show? Be aware that you are writing this for an international market and readership, so the Scottish expressions are wonderful, but too many of the pieces of local color can make the reader lose the flow of the story, and that would be a shame. You have an interesting style, and I like the humor interspersed throughout.

I wish you well on the site, and will pop your book on my shelf in a day or so.
Welcome and well done.
Suzannah Burke
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