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The Reckoning
Oct 8, 2024 7:48 AM

Author:Sue Walker

The Reckoning

It was on a beautiful morning in June 1973 that eleven-year-old Miller McAllister’s world fell apart … That was the weekend that police found the remains of three missing teenage girls on the tiny Scottish island of Fidra. And that was the weekend that Miller’s father, Douglas, was arrested for triple murder. Thirty-two years later, Douglas has died in prison and Miller returns home after decades of self-imposed exile. The McAllister family always maintained Douglas’s innocence – as steadfastly as Miller maintained his guilt. But when Miller is given the legal archive and a letter his father wrote to him just days before his death, suddenly everything looks less clear. To excavate the past and recover the truth, Miller immerses himself in the terrible events of over thirty years ago and his family’s darkest hour. Was nothing quite as it seemed on that fateful June day? Could Douglas McAllister have been innocent after all? And if he didn’t kill the girls … who did?

Reviews

Top-class crime fiction... An unerring sense of pace, good tension, more than averagely believable characters and some neat twists

—— The Times

It's a chilling story that delves into the sordid underbelly of the city's illegal club nightlife. Edwardson leaves generous space for his detectives' personal lives, with one real shocker

—— Daneet Steffens , Time Out

Åke Edwardson writes great endings... Never End [is] a novel with the most exhilarating final 50 pages in recent crime fiction

—— The Toronto Star

This series is a tough, smart, police procedural... and has the same gritty edge and great characters as the best of Ed McBain's 87th Precinct books

—— The Globe and Mail

Original...plenty to enjoy

—— Times Literary Supplement

Forsyth's tale of intrigue and bravery hooks the listener from the start.

—— Waterstones Books Quarterly

Wedding a superb command of detail to a story of pace and power, Forsyth has written a counterterrorism primer-thriller of chilling relevance

—— The Observer

Masterly

—— Financial Times

... Totally absorbing ... a highly recommended read.

—— Irish Independent

... Brilliantly executed and full of significant popular allusion and Irish attitude.

—— Western Daily Press

Bruen's tightly coiled prose strikes like a piss-soaked rattler.

—— Capital

Sharp, punch and unsettling, Priest is a masterpiece.

—— Peterborough Evening Telegraph

... An intensely dark maelstrom ... excellent.

—— www.marymartin.com.au

Bruen should be valued as one of the most challenging and memorable writers in the genre at the moment.

—— www.reviewingtheevidence.com
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