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There's no reason why a crime thriller based in Northern Ireland should be any different from a thriller based in any other part of the UK, but aside from the locations and geography, Kerry Buchanan doesn't seem to make the most of the opportunities for the two PSNI detectives in her first Harvey and Birch thriller series. Regardless of whether the nature of the case of serial killer abductions in Knife Edge  might not be the kind of crime we traditionally associate with the province, it doesn't seem as if the author really develops or makes the most of the unique circumstances of working as police officers in the Police Service of Northern Ireland in this first novel of her series. Purely in terms of it being a dark crime thriller however, Knife Edge certainly sets out to live up to its title. Nic Gordon is a young woman who has suffered a horrendous experience at the hands of a vicious killer. She and her friend Colm had been abducted at a Belfast club where their drinks...