Dark Water begins at a furious pace. A young woman on her way home from a New Year’s Eve party in 1999, 40 minutes before heralding in the new millennia. Driving conditions are poor and visibility is at a dangerous level on slippery roads. Suddenly a car drives into view and forces her off the road. The time is 23:25.
Caro Ramsay was born and educated in Glasgow. Now in her late thirties, she lives in a village on the West Coast of Scotland with an odd selection of stray dogs including Emily, the demented pit bull terrier. Dark Water is the third book in the Costello/Anderson series it follows Absolution (2008) and Singing to the dead (2009).
One of the main advantages with starting a new book is you really have no idea what you are going to get. We all, as readers, have expectations. However, until you begin the literary journey held within the covers you can never be certain if the pages contain a gripping and well told story or not. Available in Paperback from Penguin.
Dark Water had me from the very first page, the Prologue. It set the scene for the entire book. It was atmospheric, descriptive, suspenseful and gripping.
When a hideously disfigured body is found in the attic of a deserted tenement it began a journey full of discovery and pain that with each turn of the page seemed to multiply. Little do investigating officers DI Anderson and DS Costello know then that the murder would open up old wounds long since closed.
Partickhill police station is on its last legs, DCI Rebecca Quinn is close to retirement and has one big case left in her, solve it and Partickhill’s future is assured, fail and they lose not only the rundown station …
