Unsafe
John Connor, Author Orion Publishing Group, $14.95 (358p) ISBN 978-0-7528-8524-7
The dysfunctional personal lives of the lead police characters overshadow Connor's fifth novel featuring West Yorkshire Det. Sgt. Karen Sharpe (after 2007's ""Falling""). Sharpe must contend with a trainee, Det. Constable Marcus Roth, who as a child prodigy was socially warped by being accelerated in school and thus placed with much older peers. An unrepentant ladies' man, the 28-year-old Roth, despite being attracted to Sharpe, has few compunctions about getting involved with her teenage daughter. Sharpe, for her part, is sleeping with a Pakistani Category-A crook, whom the security services wanted her to get close to as a means of learning about his brother. Sharpe soon crosses the line between playing a part and getting emotionally involved. The soap-operaish background tends to obscure the main plot line, the investigation of a young woman's brutal murder. ""(Dec.)"" .
Details
Reviewed on: 11/02/2009
Release date: 11/01/2009
Genre: Fiction
Hardcover - 368 pages - 9780752885230
Paperback - 358 pages - 9780752885247
Paperback - 479 pages - 9781409102076
Open Ebook - 336 pages - 9781409106944