Book Review: Dead Line by Chris Ewan – a pacey thriller with some interesting publicity to recommend it
Chris Ewan has a good writing pedigree – he’s won awards for his The Good Thief’s Guide to… series, plus
a first novel award for his standalone novel Safe House.
Dead Line is set in
Marseilles and centres on Daniel Trent, a hostage negotiator who finds his fiancé
has gone missing. Trent is convinced
that Jerome Moreau, a dodgy character if there ever was one, is responsible, so
decides to take the law into his own hands.
His plan is to kidnap Moreau and by using some unorthodox persuasion
techniques, find out where Aimee is. The
only problem with this cunning plan is that Moreau himself is kidnapped,
leaving Trent no choice but to find and rescue Moreau to be able to find and
rescue Aimee.
Dead Line is a fast and pacey
thriller, with a good plot that keeps you hooked to the end. A number of high profile authors such as Ann
Cleeves and Simon Kernick have already written very favourable reviews of this
novel. So, rather than me saying more, I’ve
decided to enlist the power of the Interweb.
Here are two links that should help you decide whether to try this book. The first, a short publicity film for Dead
Line:
This second clip is Chris Ewan himself at the 2013 Old Peculier Crime Writing
Festival talking about the crime genre, writing and the importance of characters
and location:
Happy reading.
Romancrimeblogger
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