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Heads or Tails- Rob Ashman- Crime

Valerie tosses coins… to see if that day she will kill again. She plans meticulously- location

being all important. She has a pet at home- one who is shackled and cuffed, thin and weak

who is making noises that James her neighbour is complaining about. Malice and Peitersen

have what at first appears to be a roof jumper but with cutting edge computer equipment

and other oddities things don’t add up to a suicide. Meanwhile someone's boss is trying to

work out why he is dead when in the middle of an operation- one far too valuable to lose

someone over. Agencies collide and Malice and Peitersen try not to step on toes but are

determined to get to the bottom of this. I love the relationship between Malice and

Peitersen. There is respect, humour and that “get it done” attitude. Rob has a wonderful

style of writing that is gritty at times and with that well placed humour at others “ her

fringe looked like it had been cut with a bread knife” made me smile amongst others. A

complex case, a well thought out plot and some odd characters (in a good way). You

can’t really have a likeable murderer can you? (ok you can sometimes!) . A brilliant read,

one of a series but will happily stand alone(although some things will make more sense

if the series has been red and why miss out on some other cracking reads?). A

wonderful, highly entertaining read. 5* from me.

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