- Celebrated Australian novelist Michael Robotham has just released The White Crow, his nineteenth.
- I've read a few of his crime thriller novels over the years and enjoyed them immensely, and this one is simply superb on every level. It's long, at 434 pages, but the chapters are short so it's a comfortable read. And it's set in London, which adds a very distinct dimension. The city is alive and also dangerous.
- It's a complicated story of crime bosses and their ambitions and families, and the way the police on so many levels are threatened and compromised. A white crow is a person who stands out, and doesn't comply with the usual expectations and demands. Police Constable Philomena McCarthy's father and his brothers are criminals, and Philomena has distanced herself from them for over a decade. Joining the police force was her ultimate 'betrayal'.
- But she's tough and relentless, and to her father, dangerous.
- There are many threads and subplots but they all cohere and result in a very emotionally satisfying ending.
- Take a break from the ugly world we currently live in and immerse yourself in this. I highly recommend it.
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