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A motorcycle gang abducts Anna Lee as she attempts to stop them from kidnapping a young girl. Imprisoned in a bare cold room with the terrified victim, Anna tries desperately to escape. In the meantime, her colleagues from the security agency are scouring London in search of her. She has shaken the unsteady balance of the London underworld - & things are about to turn very nasty, not to mention bloody.Tags
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“Bad Company” proved to be a bad read.
The potential was there for a great crime thriller, but thrills are sadly missing here. It lacks an engaging narrative and compelling characters. I won’t give the ending away but will state that it left me dissatisfied.
What irritated beyond everything else was the excessive number of adverbs. If, as the saying goes, “The road to Hell is paved with adverbs”, then that road first passes through this book.
This is worst of all in the dialogue attribution, where the author tries to use a different adverb every time a character speaks: “he said conversationally,” “she said angrily,” etc. It’s distracting to the point that come halfway through the book, I would wonder which adverb was show more coming up whenever a character began to speak.
A good writer should be able to *show* the characters' emotions with actions, not rely on adverbs to *tell* the reader about it. show less
The potential was there for a great crime thriller, but thrills are sadly missing here. It lacks an engaging narrative and compelling characters. I won’t give the ending away but will state that it left me dissatisfied.
What irritated beyond everything else was the excessive number of adverbs. If, as the saying goes, “The road to Hell is paved with adverbs”, then that road first passes through this book.
This is worst of all in the dialogue attribution, where the author tries to use a different adverb every time a character speaks: “he said conversationally,” “she said angrily,” etc. It’s distracting to the point that come halfway through the book, I would wonder which adverb was show more coming up whenever a character began to speak.
A good writer should be able to *show* the characters' emotions with actions, not rely on adverbs to *tell* the reader about it. show less
Really expands Anna's world by telling the story from the POV of her detective colleagues as well as herself. Defeats the expectations of the genre by not having the case all tidily wrapped up at the end.
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Liza Cody was born in London on April 11, 1944. She is an English crime fiction writer. She is the author of the popular Anna Lee series, which introduced the professional female private detective to British mystery fiction. Cody is also the author of the Bucket Nut Trilogy which features professional wrestler Eva Wylie. Cody has also written the show more novels Rift, Gimme More, Ballad of a Dead Nobody, and Miss Terry. Cody's awards have included the John Creasey Memorial Prize and the CWA Silver Dagger in the UK as well as an Anthony Award in the U.S. and a Marlowe in Germany. Most of Cody's work is set in London. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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