"Strong police procedural thriller"
In Glasgow, Detective Inspector Orla McLeod and her partner
Luke Tyler work undercover. They plan to bring to an end
the brutal Tord Svensen's criminal empire. However,
everything quickly unravels as either someone on their team
informed Tord or they slipped up somehow because they are
spotted as infiltrating intruders. When the dust settles,
Luke is dead and the only person living who can identify
Tord is the nine-year-old boy who saved Orla's life even as
he watched his own mother killed. Orla realizes that she must keep the lad Jamie Buchanan
safe, but Glasgow means death for the youngster. She takes
him to the Scottish Highlands, but Tord is coming. No one
lives if they can finger Tord. NO GOOD DEED is as good a police procedural thriller as it
gets. The story line is powerful and descriptive even with
the villain identified almost from the start. The action
moves out as soon as the reader begins the opening
paragraph. Yet Manda Scott insures that the characters are
fully developed, especially the haunted Orla. As she did
with HEN'S TEETH, Ms. Scott provides a Scottish police
procedural worth reading by anyone who relishes a loaded
fast-paced thriller. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted April 20, 2002
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