To The Last Page

I'm not entirely convinced by the hard-ass act of Brigid Quinn, the tough and experienced 60 year old ex-FBI agent of Becky Masterman's A Twist of the Knife . It does seem like a deliberate ploy to have an edgy character who is a bit morally ambiguous, keeping the reader conflicted about her bluntness but admiring how (she tells us) she gets things done. Sometimes she bends the rules, but "it's for the right reasons". Yeah. sure, isn't that what everyone thinks? I'll give you an example that is totally unrelated to the actual case here - so no spoilers - but which is told by Quinn in the first person narration so that you have an understanding of where she is coming from. Opening her mouth once too often without thinking, Brigid Quinn says something insensitive to a fellow detective who is agonising over a failed prosecution in a child abuse case. The detective subsequently commits suicide and Quinn feels really bad about it. To try to make up for it, she ...