The road to hell paved with good intentions Her first novel BLOOD IN THE WATER introducting Edinburgh detective Alice Rice was published in 2007 and in that same year optimism to the fore she abandoned her legal practice in order to concentrate on her writing. The road to hell david pawson pdf When the body of a half clothed woman is discovered in an Edinburgh park a murder investigation is launched The victim has not been reported missing and there are few clues to her identity Soon after the naked corpse of a prominent clergyman is found also in a park Detective Sargeant Alice Rice wonders if the same killer is at work and if so what the connection is between the apparently motiveless attacks Full of action and intrigue this thrilling mystery takes the policewoman to new personal depths and along a trail that leads to some of Edinburgh s darkest and scariest corners The Road to HellAlice investigates a suspicious death whilst dealing with her own personal challenges Interesting characters populate this Edinburgh based crime novel Gillian Galbraith very interesting to read another version of crime in Edinburgh Gillian Galbraith I did enjoy it but story felt a bit stretched out Gillian Galbraith This was a step too far for me There has been a growing tendency in this series to shift the focus and interest to the lives of the police and to shift the crimes into those lives While I can appreciate the concept of Police as people impacted by crime as citizens such shifting has the effect of narrowing the world in which the books are set and failing to deal with the impact of policing per se on those involved It also distances the reader from the process of solving crime where I prefer to focus my reading I have had misgivings for a while about the direction in which the series is heading I think I ve reached my limit Gillian Galbraith For me full enjoyment of this was marred by slightly flabby editing too many sub plots insufficiently convincing actions on the part of Alice who lacked common sense and an ability to grieve and was stupid and or spineless beyond belief far too often Plus an unsatisfactory ending Gillian Galbraith.

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Gillian Galbraith was born in Coupar Angus Perthshire in January 1957 She was educated at a convent and at the Universities of Edinburgh and Dundee, The long hard road out of hell pdf Following careers in dish washing bookselling and journalism she was called to the Scottish Bar in 1987, The road to hell nikolay gvozdev Her second novel WHERE THE SHADOW FALLS also featuring DI Alice Rice will be published by Birlinn in Spring 2008: The road to hell is paved with adverbs Gillian lives happily in Kinross shire with her husband Robert daughter Daisy and assorted other creatures