Shadow Man - Margaret Kirk
Shadow Man is a fairly standard police crime thriller although it’s a little bit better than most in as far as it provides a intriguing mystery and doesn’t cheat the reader with either a ridiculously over-the-top or an underwhelming ending. There are one or two other points of interest that give Margaret Kirk’s debut thriller a little more of an edge and some originality, principally being that it is set in Inverness around the time of the Scottish referendum. There are certainly divisions and divided loyalties expressed within families in Shadow Man , as well as some historical consideration of the nature of being Scottish, but it has to be said that this aspect remains largely in the background, and a first glance it doesn’t seem to have anything at all to do with the murder of Morvern Murray, a high-flying local TV celebrity who has been brutally eviscerated in her hotel room on the eve of her wedding. Social and professional rivalries look like being more of an issue here, thinks ...