Absolution
Caro Ramsay
Having read it
★★★★☆
A damn good read, quite frankly, that kept me hooked and wanting to find out how it all ended; it had good twists and turns and characters with plenty of attitudes and approaches (and issues?!) that helped drive the plot, maintain intrigue and, as is important with crime novels, kept you guessing as to whodunnit!
A good passage
Memories were already stretching and yawning, uncoiling from sleep, memories of things he had never known, a voice he had never heard, a smile unfurling from lips he had never gazed at. Had never kissed.
A beauty he had never seen.
But it still felt like a reunion; even through the reek of staleness he could smell her in the air, in the scent of bluebells. The scent of her.
A second good passage
‘Thinking? Drinking’s more like it. [DCI] Alan [McAlpine], get a grip! I’ve seen stiffs with more life in them. What’s going on? What was going on this morning?’
A third good passage
She remembered this road as a child, and it’s strange phenomenon: a parked car runs uphill if the handbrake is slipped. People who knew about such things said it was all to do with the lie of the land, an optical illusion. Costello preferred the theory of the Electric Brae, a strange force that pulled cars against the force of gravity. She turned off the engine and gently slipped the handbrake off, and the Toyota, imperceptibly at first, began to roll up the hill. As it gained speed, Costello pressed her foot on the brake. She smiled to herself: physical proof that the world was just that little bit crazy.