Then 2/3 in the author seemed to get frustrated with how long it was taking to get anywhere either that or someone else took over the writing as it morphed into a different style, then it was suddenly all over the place with a kind of staccato finish . It also seemed odd to me how casual the characters referenced each other: in scenes from DI James Clarke’s POV, I felt it would have made more sense for him to think of Nel as Doctor Ward, and in scenes from Nel’s perspective, it was jarring hearing her think about “James” and not DI Clarke. it was a fun twisting mystery romp that brought me back to the days of my readi It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references throughout.

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THE AUTHOR: After spending sixteen years as an ecologist, crawling through undergrowth and studying nocturnal habits of animals (and people), Dr Sarah Yarwood-Lovett naturally turned her mind to murder. I would also recommend reading the enlightening section towards the back of the book, following acknowledgments, entitled ‘The Nature of Crime’. The scenes with Alice offer us fragments of clues and give us some sense of what it must be like to be losing your memory and sense of what is going on around you. A passage about Colin’s drunken reverie at the end of Chapter Forty-Six is written in the style of a high-school student: “Just then there was a knock at the door. But when she's the prime suspect in a murder, only her unique set of skills could help to clear her name.Without being pedantic or lecturing, the author pulls back the curtain on a tantalizing bit of nature most never see. If it's a group of one type of aquatic mammal—whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals—then they tend to gather in pods.

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Debut author, Sarah Yarwood-Lovett, has drawn on her personal background and created a central character who is an ecologist.He is a New Orleans criminal defense lawyer who has had a crisis of conscience while defending wealthy childhood friend Thurman Parks III. But there's no rest for courageous, mystery-solving teens in a place like Hollow Falls, and though the Lit Killer is now behind bars, his protégé, Tig's classmate and crush Oly, has disappeared! A Murder of Crows is the story of a young couple who go missing during a powerful late-summer storm and the policemen who are trying to find them.