[Book Review] Spoken Bones
TITLE: Spoken Bones
AUTHOR: N.C. Lewis
SERIES: DI Fenella Sallow (#1)
RELEASES: October 16, 2021 by Independently published
GENRE: Mystery,Fiction, Crime, Suspense, British Literature
AGE RANGE: Adult
RATING: 1 out 5
SYNOPSIS: This dark secret could finally break her…
Detective Inspector Fenella Sallow is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. When the body of a retired artist is discovered atop the blackened embers of the town bonfire, the community is rocked to the core.
It falls to DI Fenella Sallow and her team to find out how she came to be there. In her fifties, the veteran detective inspector thought she had seen it all. But behind the curtained windows and closed doors of the idyllic Cumbria coastal setting lurks pure evil.
Fenella must confront her dark past. Haunted by the unsolved case of a missing girl, she knows it is a race against time. Can she stop this death from slipping through her fingers, too?
Before long, it becomes disturbingly clear that the killer is playing a twisted game and will do anything to conceal the terrible truth of what happened on the beach on Bonfire Night.
REVIEW: One of the worst books I have ever read. Every sentence this writer writes contains an absurdly erroneous comparison. This story was supposed to be set in the Lake District in a coastal town, but the setting and topography had no sense of place. As far as northern speech is concerned, the main character calls everyone 'luv.'
The author should hire an editor, as the book reads like it's made up of about separate pieces sewn together without attention to continuity. Another possibility is that a group wrote different sections of the book and sold it as if it came from one person. Toward the end of the book, the author seems to have decided enough was written, so they use the confession of a character that wasn't in the story until the end.
This author is not worth reading anymore (if an actual person is writing).As a result, I do not recommend reading this book as it is poorly written, lacks coherence, and has no interest in reading it.