Eyes Like Mine by Sheena Kamal, Book Review

Now here is a doozy. I love crime books written in a first-person narrative, especially if the protagonist is as complex and interesting as Nora Watts, a researcher for an investigation bureau in Vancouver, Canada. Forget Canada being a place of polite and kind people who articulate all their violent instincts on the hockey rink. Like everywhere else, it has bad people, really bad people. And they are out to get Nora. What could be worse? Really bad people out to get the teenage daughter she gave up for adoption the day she gave birth to her.

In a tight spot, like when you are running for your life, you hope you have friends or family to turn to for help. You hope there is at least one person you can trust with your life. But what if that isn’t the case? What if you are entirely on your own? Nora Watts gives new meaning to two words - ‘disadvantaged’ and ‘survivor’. Will she be able to save her daughter though?

The author, Sheena Kamal, is new on the block, but not for long - this is a name to look out for. 

Published February 2017 by Zaffre in hardback, £12.99.