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Time runs out as the men and women of Glasgow's P Division frantically search for a missing child who they fear has been kidnapped by a bizarre serial killer. ... Read more

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Terse Glasgow Police Procedural
The eighth of Turnbull's eleven Glasgow-set "P Division" police procedurals follows the squad over the course of a few days in which a young boy goes missing and a teenage girl's corpse is discovered in the nearby countryside. The prose is clipped and the characterization minimal, as Turnbull lets the story unfurl in a strict chronological progression. Squad members who go off duty generally shuffle off-stage as the action is picked up by the new shift of characters. While occasional diversions are made to the coppers' off-duty lives, this never reaches the psychological complexity or detail of, for example, John Harvey's series. (Of course, as with any series, the characters will be much richer to those who have read the previous seven books.)

Adhering the strict framework of procedurals, the police systematically pursue each case, and further details slowly accrue, including a potential link to a 25-year-old case. Some of the procedures show their age (for example, suspect parameters are given to the unit's "collator", who works some kind of computer magic to yield potential suspects, and skull-based facial reconstruction is a brand new field), but it all holds together quite well. I'm not generally a fan of serial killer plotlines, but Turnbull's light touch and avoidance of spending fifty pages delving into the killer's motivation makes this one palatable. Readers who prefer to focus on procedure over character will find this an excellent read, and I will certainly be going back to start the series from the beginning. ... Read more

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Katherine Millar is eighteen and desperate to be less fat, less swotty and to have cooler friends. But most of all, she wishes she had two parents, instead of one grandma, Poll. Poll is pushing seventy, half blind and utterly poisonous. She has looked after Katherine since she was a baby, when her father was killed in a car crash and her mother vanished. Poll's ambition is for things to stay exactly the same for ever, and for Katherine never to leave their pit village of Bank Top. Katherine has other ideas, and she can feel change is coming; the omens are all around her. In the meantime, she cleans up after Poll, revises for her exams, watches daytime television and surfs the net at the library trying to find out how to be bulimic. What she doesn't quite realize yet is that life won't always wait for you to catch up with it. "Swallowing Grandma" is a perceptive, vivid and painfully funny novel about the ties of love and loathing, and the ways in which our versions of the past can thwart our visions for the future. In Katherine and Poll, Kate Long has created two unforgettable characters locked in an epic battle over whose side of the story will prevail. "Wise, warm and witty ...Will keep you reading until the very last page" - Red, "Book of the Month". ... Read more

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Originally published in 1909.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1909.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more