MellowDrama

A spine chilling novel where Detective Inspector Helen Grace makes her first appearance. Read it for a prose that doesn't meander or wastes time in getting to the point. ************************** I have bee postponing writing about Eeny Meeny because I wanted to be in a certain mood to write this review. There has only been one other book besides this one that has given me a sleepless night. That book was Agatha Christie's 'And Then There Were None'. There is nothing graphic or gory in either of these books over which I might have lost sleep but the sheer reason for which people were being murdered, shook me up. Of course And Then There Were None is very atmospheric, that whole abandoned island, the morose weather, crashing sea waves- is enough to spook you. It is the woman herself- Agatha Christies- who is a master storyteller, you might just say. Getting back to Eeny Meeny, credit should be given to Arlidge for creating a spell binding narrative doled out in...

Read it for a flawed heroine who is tormented by her past and is not allowed a moment of rest and peace- welcome to the world of Detective Inspector Helen Grace.  *********** Though I  personally want to read all the firsts of the various detectives that have been created in the world of fiction, MJ Arlidge's Eeny Meeny has not easily fallen into my lap. What instead I found was the fifth book featuring his heroine DI Helen Grace- Little Boy Blue. This is the book where Helen's professional and personal lives clash giving us some idea about what might have happened in her past. Helen has deep, dark secrets that begin to bubble up to the surface as a man is found murdered in the city's deepest and darkest corner. He was well-known to Grace and it could purely be an accident but then another man is found murdered grotesquely and he too was known to her. As leads and misplaced suspicions come to the fore, the murder investigations get sidetracked by her infightin...