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It’s years since Private Investigator Annie Raymond set eyes on PC Jennifer Flanagan, yet here they are face to face because a rogue shipping container turned up in a recycling yard on the outskirts of Hull, and a man died. The grieving widow hurls accusations but too quickly backs off.
Why is the container undocumented? How did it arrive unnoticed amid the forest of cameras and automated recognition systems?
When Annie’s paymasters start taking too close an interest in her present, and Jennifer’s supervisors begin digging into her past, the two women are drawn into an uneasy alliance. Do they feel under surveillance because they’re watching each other, or is it something more sinister?
While Annie tries to protect her agency, in the myriad dockyards sprawled alongside the dark waters of the Humber, robotic systems swing gigantic steel containers with millimetre precision through the cold winter air.
Why is the container undocumented? How did it arrive unnoticed amid the forest of cameras and automated recognition systems?
When Annie’s paymasters start taking too close an interest in her present, and Jennifer’s supervisors begin digging into her past, the two women are drawn into an uneasy alliance. Do they feel under surveillance because they’re watching each other, or is it something more sinister?
While Annie tries to protect her agency, in the myriad dockyards sprawled alongside the dark waters of the Humber, robotic systems swing gigantic steel containers with millimetre precision through the cold winter air.
386 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 20, 2021
About the author
Penny Grubb
22 books36 followersPenny is a scientist and academic (Health Informatics), and was Chair of the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society , the largest writers’ organisation in the world, for six years to 2013.
A writer all her life, she penned her first story at age 4 and won her first writing competition at age 9. In 2004 she received an international award, the Crime Writers’ Association’s Debut Dagger.
She has worked in a variety of jobs, having been on the inside of pathology labs, operating theatres and medical schools across Europe.
Working full time with one job in London, the other in Hull, in her spare time Penny writes crime novels and occasional articles for newspapers and magazines.
A writer all her life, she penned her first story at age 4 and won her first writing competition at age 9. In 2004 she received an international award, the Crime Writers’ Association’s Debut Dagger.
She has worked in a variety of jobs, having been on the inside of pathology labs, operating theatres and medical schools across Europe.
Working full time with one job in London, the other in Hull, in her spare time Penny writes crime novels and occasional articles for newspapers and magazines.
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April 29, 2021
This is the latest in the Annie Raymond series, and, as usual, worth waiting for. As someone who doesn’t read much crime fiction, I’ve always enjoyed this series of crime novels, which is probably explained by the excellent writing and the way Penny Grubb delivers her characters.
In this story, Annie’s always enquiring mind and need to know what really happened, takes her on a strange journey into an unfamiliar world. The descriptions of the container park, with its vast array of massive metal boxes full of who knows what, engage the reader’s attention. We are there with her as the massive machinery follows its automated processes completely unconcerned for the humanity that designed and supposedly controls it. In the first visit, the air of threat and menace is tangible. In the final one, the threat becomes all too real, as Annie faces almost unsurmountable odds and dangers in her quest to discover the truth.
As always, the characters are wonderfully real people; varied, interesting, unreliable and oh so human. We feel the frustrations, irritations, uncertainties, and, as the denouement builds, the tensions, fears, and dreads.
This story grabbed me from the very start and held me tight in an unrelenting grip until the last word.
A real page turner, but one where the action is driven by the varied and fascinating characters. A great read!
In this story, Annie’s always enquiring mind and need to know what really happened, takes her on a strange journey into an unfamiliar world. The descriptions of the container park, with its vast array of massive metal boxes full of who knows what, engage the reader’s attention. We are there with her as the massive machinery follows its automated processes completely unconcerned for the humanity that designed and supposedly controls it. In the first visit, the air of threat and menace is tangible. In the final one, the threat becomes all too real, as Annie faces almost unsurmountable odds and dangers in her quest to discover the truth.
As always, the characters are wonderfully real people; varied, interesting, unreliable and oh so human. We feel the frustrations, irritations, uncertainties, and, as the denouement builds, the tensions, fears, and dreads.
This story grabbed me from the very start and held me tight in an unrelenting grip until the last word.
A real page turner, but one where the action is driven by the varied and fascinating characters. A great read!
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