Tangled Web UK Review April 2008
The Twilight Time by
Karen Campbell
hbk out April 08
Published by Hodder
at £12.99
Sergeant Anna Cameron starts work in the Flexi Unit, policing Glasgow’s notorious Drag. This is a place of working girls and drug deals. Several local prostitutes have been attacked by a man who uses his knife to carve initials on their faces. Then an old Polish man is found murdered in his flat. The Twilight Time is written in gutsy, gritty prose with some laugh out loud descriptions: "He looked like a coconut ice, spider-veined face frilled by white hair". If ‘bad language’ bothers you as a reader, steer clear, and there are no-holds-barred references to the most intimate bodily functions. An insider’s knowledge of work in the police is used to good effect (Campbell was a serving police officer). But the strained relationships between Anna and her new team, which includes ex-lover Jamie (now married with a wife and a child), are as gripping as the hunt for the bad guy. A powerful first time novel from Campbell, who brings a scorching honesty to the emotional inner-life of her characters. This will surely be the start of a successful series.
(
Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder)
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