No Time to Cry

Constance Fairchild Series 1

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No Time to Cry

By: James Oswald

Narrated by: Rose Akroyd

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From one of the UK's biggest crime writers - the man who brought you the best-selling Inspector McLean novels - comes a phenomenal new series guaranteed to have your heart in your mouth.

Undercover ops are always dangerous, but DC Constance Fairchild never expected things to go this wrong.

Returning to their base of operations, an anonymous office in a shabby neighbourhood, she finds the bloodied body of her boss and friend, DI Pete Copperthwaite. He's been executed - a single shot to the head.

In the aftermath, it seems someone in the Met is determined to make sure that blame for the wrecked operation falls squarely on Con's shoulders. She is cut loose and cast out, angry and alone with her grief...right until the moment someone also tries to put a bullet through her head.

There's no place to hide and no time to cry.

Crime Thrillers

Mystery

Police Procedural

Thriller & Suspense

Fiction

Crime

Thriller

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Heartfelt

Suspense

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Given the faith in his own writing that Oswald showed by self-publishing his first Inspector McLean novel it felt inevitable that he would not want himself to be constrained by a single lead protagonist and so Constance Fairchild must have been born. Oswald's new series is once again a crime thriller but in many ways it's everything the McLean series is not. It's a first person, single POV story of a young and feisty Detective Constable hundreds of miles away working for the Met Police in London. Of course with Oswald things aren't going well for Con when we join her and they don't improve a great deal as things go on. She's plunged into danger from the off and suspicion falls on her when her boss is brutally executed.

I will be very interested to see what our lady reviewers make of this one as Oswald does what felt to this male ignoramus a very decent job of portraying a strong and very enjoyable female character. Much better than a number of more feted thriller writers have managed in recent years anyway. She's spunky, swears a lot but is never OTT, she feels like a finely balanced character and one worthy of her own series. This is also mostly much more direct than the McLean series and there is less attempt to build a loveable set of characters like the wonderful Grumpy Bob and Mrs McCutcheon's cat. There is however an appearance from one of my favourite denizens of McLean's Edinburgh which I particularly enjoyed. This confirms that Fairchild occupies the same world with the same laws of (super)nature perhaps . . .

Rose Ackroyd gives a fine performance with good narrative and character voicing though part of the way through she became very slightly husky suggesting a small throat problem though it never spoils it.

Fans of Oswald are likely to enjoy this book I would imagine but it is very different in style, you aren't getting a female Inspector McLean by any stretch and as Oswald suggests in an introduction read by himself she isn't quite so married to the job. It is damn good though and I have no reservations in recommending it with the only caveat being that if you're after more of the same from Oswald you might be disappointed.

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