Canaries in the Coalmine

Canaries in the Coalmine- Ross Greenwood- Crime  

Oh wow! A book I loved and characters I fell in love with.  Robbie is in prison with her friend Angelica. As yet we don’t know quite what for. Angelica is feeling down and Robbie does her best to alert the warders but to no avail. Robbie's sentence finishes a short time later and as her Mother has gone back to her homeland of Ecuador she has gone to stay with the neighbours- but only for a month at her mothers insistence that she makes her own way. Stan and Edna are “Trojans' ' in Robbie's own words and I found myself going “aww “ at their kindness. Robbie goes to see Trevor, Angelica’s father and strikes up an unlikely friendship and then she delves into Angelica’s past and why she was as she was and her tumultuous relationship with her father and others.

OMG.  A book that stopped me in my tracks (in a very good way). Yes it's a crime book but it's so very much more. It's about understanding our fellow humans whatever they are or choose to be or what they have been through. Of love and understanding and most of all caring. Trevor made me cry at the end, and yes as Ross says afterwards we’ve perhaps all known a Trevor in our time. One of my books of the year, this really is something so special I don’t have adequate words to describe it. Stunning and  10* don’t do this justice. 

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She begged for two promises.

The first was to save a life.

The second was to take one...

Life changed in the blink of an eye when a man died.

My best friend, Angelica, and I entered a hell on earth: every day was a battle to survive.

I served my sentence, but she had to stay.

Alone, with Angelica's promises ringing in my ears, I had to pick up the pieces of my life while looking into her past.

I stepped into a nightmare world, meeting a man so evil, he'd ruined countless lives.

Now I have to decide. Can I keep my second promise?

Ross Greenwood's modern thriller will introduce you to characters you'll never forget in a place where gender is nothing... and everything.

Praise for Canaries in the Coal Mine.

"I was up until after 1 a.m. two nights running because I couldn't put it down, on school nights! This a definite must-read and one of my favourite books of the year so far. It made me laugh, cry, gasp and grimace, and not many books do that to me, and I read loads. A total and utter five stars from me."

"I was rooting for Robbie all the way through."

"I love the characters, they're honest and believable. I became so invested in their lives and could hardly put the book down. So often books are described as thought provoking, but this definitely was.'

"Not what I was expecting at all, but so good."

"Just buy it, you won't regret it!"