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Read Acid Row by Minette Walters on the plane to India yesterday after the wife recommended it despite having previously dismissed her as a bit of a chick writer due to the heavily feminist slant of her televised work in The Sculptress, The Ice House etc.
Not a heavy duty read but a very well paced thriller that really cuts into the dark underbelly of England. It deals with a 24 hour period on a Hampshire sink estate where local gossip has convinced people that 2 peadophiles have been rehoused in the middle of their estate at the same time as a young local girl has gone missing. Should certainly be read by the "cut off their bollocks, hanging's too good for them, name and shame" Daily Mail reading numpties that surface on here every time a serious crime is given tabloid coverage.
Had read The Devil's Feather previously and found that to be a pretty good pacy thriller as well.
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