Needlepoint by Jenny Roberts

Needlepoint

Jenny Roberts

Cameron McGill is flawed yet strong and when her journalist sister, Carrie, dies in circumstances so out of character, she is forced to look beyond the line fed to her by the police. Unable to accept the advice of friends and colleagues, McGill decides that her sister deserves more than a dismissive shrug of the shoulders and the ‘shit happens’ attitude of officialdom. Her nightmare journey through the seedier side of cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a constant reminder that all is not as it seems.The individuals she meets along the way: the German Businesswoman with an agenda of her own; Hellen, a lesbian cop who irritates and then intrigues our heroine and the street people, the vulnerable and the young are all skilfully drawn. With a backdrop of squats, unhelpful officials and drug-induced danger that is never very far away, Needle Point delves into very murky waters indeed. An impressive debut… hugely believable characters and bright as a button prose.

The Guardian: ‘…deserves to be read by more than a niche market. Cameronhas the short hair and the big Harley-Davidson of a dyke the straight world would recognise. When she can’t get over her sister’s mysterious death in Amsterdam, she sets off to conduct her own investigation… this The Guardian: ‘…deserves to be read by more than a niche market. Cameronhas the short hair and the big Harley-Davidson of a dyke the straight world would recognise. When she can’t get over her sister’s mysterious death in Amsterdam, she sets off to conduct her own investigation… this is an excellently paced, well-plotted thriller.’

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Details

ISBN	1905108036
Genre	Mystery
Publication Date	06-Jun-06
Publisher	BookSurge
Format	Paperback
No. of Pages	280
Series	Cameron McGill Mystery
# in Series	1
Notes	Product Description Cameron McGill’s journalist sister, Carrie, has been found dead in an Amsterdam canel with needle marks all down her arm. No matter how she tries, Cameron can’t believe that Carrie would ever take drugs – even though the police are adamant that she did. When they close the case for good, Cam decides to take matters into her own hands and goes to Amsterdam to find out exactly what happened to her sister. Once there, she encounters radical squatters, evasive drug agencies, a German vamp called Helga and a particularly attractive policewoman whom she finds hard to resist. But it’s hard to know who to trust in a quest that might ultimately claim her life as gruesomely as it took her sister’s.
Rating	NotRated
BookID	8729