Fatlands

Hannah is asked to chaperone 14 year old Mattie as she goes shopping in London for her birthday, since her father Tom is too busy to spend the day with her himself. Without wanting to give too much away, things go horribly wrong. The assumption is that an attack has been perpetrated by animal rights activists, since Tom is head of research for a company which is developing a product which will increase pork yield in pigs.

I didn't enjoy this one as much as the first in the series - it was less fun and more violent. Hannah spent quite a lot of the book being horribly and violently attacked, although bizarrely she seemed to find some of this sexually arousing. Also troubling (this was published in 1993) was Hannah's approval of Mattie's show more 'affair' with the (much older) gardener at her school, which was textbook predatory grooming.

I'm hoping the final instalment will be more investigation and less disfigurement and knocking out of teeth. show less

3.25 stars

Hannah Wolfe is a private investigator, but usually her jobs are pretty mundane. She is hired to “protect” a 14-year old girl, Mattie, for one day. She has been told that Mattie’s mother may try to kidnap her. Mattie’s father is a scientist who, in trying to find a cure for cancer, tests on animals. Things go very wrong, and Hannah is left to figure out how it all happened.

It was all right, although if I put it down, I wasn’t really all that compelled to pick it up again real soon. I was afraid there might be parts that would be difficult for me to read, depending how much detail she went into in describing some of the animal testing, but it wasn’t as bad as I was afraid it might be.

animal rights blamed for murder to cover up drug side effects

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La investigadora privada Hannah Wolfe, que es independiente aunque no invencible, idealista pero definitivamente no ingenua, ha asumido uno de los trabajos menos glamorosos en el mundo de la seguridad: acompañar al rebelde adolescente Mattie Shepherd en Londres. Pero el padre de Mattie le está pagando mucho dinero a Hannah, más de lo que vale el trabajo, al parecer. O tal vez no. El padre de la niña está en la lista negra del Frente de Liberación Animal. ¿Pero por qué? Cuando estalla la violencia, destrozando a la familia, esto es lo que Hannah debe descubrir. Su obsesión por la verdad casi la mata, arruinando su vida privada y arrastrándola a un vórtice de mentiras y traiciones.