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The Craig Crime Series #8
The Careless Word
Please note this is the LATEST EDITION of the eighth book in the Craig Crime Series.
When events from Belfast’s troubled past occur again decades later, the worst is feared and the Belfast Murder Squad is called.
They find a quiet Belfast bookshop and a distant country linked in unexpected ways, and idealistic youth sadly misled.
THE CARELESS WORD. Words can be weapons too.
The books in The Craig Crime Series may be read as a series or as standalone books.
Now complete the The Craig Crime Series:
A Limited Justice
The Grass Tattoo
The Visitor
The Waiting Room
The Broken Shore
The Slowest Cut
The Coercion Key
The Careless Word
The History Suite
The Sixth Estate
The Sect
The Keeper
The Talion Code
The Tribes
The Pact
The Cabal
When events from Belfast’s troubled past occur again decades later, the worst is feared and the Belfast Murder Squad is called.
They find a quiet Belfast bookshop and a distant country linked in unexpected ways, and idealistic youth sadly misled.
THE CARELESS WORD. Words can be weapons too.
The books in The Craig Crime Series may be read as a series or as standalone books.
Now complete the The Craig Crime Series:
A Limited Justice
The Grass Tattoo
The Visitor
The Waiting Room
The Broken Shore
The Slowest Cut
The Coercion Key
The Careless Word
The History Suite
The Sixth Estate
The Sect
The Keeper
The Talion Code
The Tribes
The Pact
The Cabal
300 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 14, 2018
65 people are currently reading
21 people want to read
About the author
Catriona King
45 books43 followersCatriona King is a doctor and NHS Manager. She was raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland and moved to central London to live and work as a Doctor, where she trained as a police Forensic Medical examiner. She worked closely with the Metropolitan Police on many occasions, and encountered many fascinating people and situations, in both Belfast and London. In recent years, she has lived and worked in Belfast, basing her D.C.I. Craig crime novels in the streets of modern Belfast and Northern Ireland, and locating the fictitious crime headquarters of 'Docklands Coordinated Crime Unit' in one of Belfast's most colourful and oldest districts, Sailortown. Catriona has written since childhood, fiction, fact and reporting. 'A Limited Justice' is her first novel, released on Kindle on 24th August 2012 and in paperback on the 26th October to Five Star Reviews. It follows Detective Chief Inspector Marc Craig and his team, in the hunt for the killer of three people.
There are four further novels in the D.C.I. Craig series: 'The Grass Tattoo', 'The Visitor', 'The Waiting Room' and the fifth book in the Craig Series 'The Broken Shore' released in December 2013. All are available in paperback and e-book. Catriona's sixth novel, 'The Carbon Trail' a standalone espionage thriller set in New York City, will be released in April 2014. Books six and seven in the Craig series called 'The Slowest Cut' and 'The Coercion Key' respectively are currently in edits for release in 2014.
Catriona is active on both Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CatrionaKing... and Twitter https://twitter.com/CatrionaKing1 where she engages about her books. Her website is www.catrionakingbooks.com
Books can be purchased on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and many other sites http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_nos...
There are four further novels in the D.C.I. Craig series: 'The Grass Tattoo', 'The Visitor', 'The Waiting Room' and the fifth book in the Craig Series 'The Broken Shore' released in December 2013. All are available in paperback and e-book. Catriona's sixth novel, 'The Carbon Trail' a standalone espionage thriller set in New York City, will be released in April 2014. Books six and seven in the Craig series called 'The Slowest Cut' and 'The Coercion Key' respectively are currently in edits for release in 2014.
Catriona is active on both Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CatrionaKing... and Twitter https://twitter.com/CatrionaKing1 where she engages about her books. Her website is www.catrionakingbooks.com
Books can be purchased on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and many other sites http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_nos...
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May 22, 2017
CATRIONA KING.
The Careless Word.
When deaths are committed in Belfast the worst is always assumed.
Now Craig's team are involved and they have to have it solved before going to Johns wedding in two weeks time, so all hands to the pump as they say. Bombings and murders everywhere you turn, is it back to the bad old days again, time will tell. This series has had me captured since book 1.
5* 22 May 2017.
The Careless Word.
When deaths are committed in Belfast the worst is always assumed.
Now Craig's team are involved and they have to have it solved before going to Johns wedding in two weeks time, so all hands to the pump as they say. Bombings and murders everywhere you turn, is it back to the bad old days again, time will tell. This series has had me captured since book 1.
5* 22 May 2017.
June 28, 2015
These are beginning to seem formulaic
It always works the same way: Craig always has a crucial intuition that leads to breaking the case, with other team members pitching in their own insights to help things along. There's always the same sort of teasing each time before people buckle down to discuss the case, Nicky is always Mom at least once, as well as helping the deductions along. The gang is always having dinner and drinks at the same restaurant, Craig and John are constantly having the same relationship talks about the women in their lives. Annette is always the intuitive one, Liam is the boor with real policing skill that always shows up at least once in each case, Nicky is the smart mom with an outre fashion sense, Davy is brilliant but shy. In short, no one ever really changes and the way in which these cases are solved is the same every single time... It's all too predictable, and though the books are well written, by book #8 one is really hoping for something more. Some character development or real change of some kind, let's say.
It always works the same way: Craig always has a crucial intuition that leads to breaking the case, with other team members pitching in their own insights to help things along. There's always the same sort of teasing each time before people buckle down to discuss the case, Nicky is always Mom at least once, as well as helping the deductions along. The gang is always having dinner and drinks at the same restaurant, Craig and John are constantly having the same relationship talks about the women in their lives. Annette is always the intuitive one, Liam is the boor with real policing skill that always shows up at least once in each case, Nicky is the smart mom with an outre fashion sense, Davy is brilliant but shy. In short, no one ever really changes and the way in which these cases are solved is the same every single time... It's all too predictable, and though the books are well written, by book #8 one is really hoping for something more. Some character development or real change of some kind, let's say.
December 29, 2016
It is more than a year since I read Marc Craig #7. Perhaps the break did me good.
I think the reason why these are so readable is because above all else they are well written. The story line is creative, it doesn’t go on too long, and even though we hop about from European city to The Middle East and back to Belfast, Ms King provides twice daily team briefings just in case we missed any vital action.
These deserve to run.
I think the reason why these are so readable is because above all else they are well written. The story line is creative, it doesn’t go on too long, and even though we hop about from European city to The Middle East and back to Belfast, Ms King provides twice daily team briefings just in case we missed any vital action.
These deserve to run.
August 20, 2016
Despite what the summary says these books do not really tap into Northern Ireland's past. I have read at least 3 other series set in the North and they all feature some level of sectarian tension which is absent from these books. These characters tend to be rather static, especially Craig. Also the group of police appears to be highly unrealistic in their ranks and organization.
July 9, 2015
A step back from previous writings
Not a bad storyline, but a bit sketchy, never really got to know the advisories, especially the leader.
I am hoping that the final book in the series reverts more in line with the original characters and storylines.
Not a bad storyline, but a bit sketchy, never really got to know the advisories, especially the leader.
I am hoping that the final book in the series reverts more in line with the original characters and storylines.
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