To Catch A Rabbit book review

To Catch a Rabbit is the first book by new author Helen Cadbury, joint winner of Northern Crime Award 2012.

I bought this book following an author event at Dewsbury Library and what a debut. 

Sean Denton is a Doncaster PCSO with dyslexia but it is his observations that make him such a captivating character.  When two boys stumble across the body of a dead prostitute on his patch he feels way out of depth.  When Karen Friedman finds out that her brother is missing she needs to find that he is safe, but when she begins to speak to the police about the case she uncovers things about herself that she wasn’t aware that she needed or desired.  Both Sean and Karen’s enquiries begin to throw up the same names and the story delves into the murky world of human trafficking and the sex trade.

There is a lot of time-line shifting and twists and turns of plot and the characterisation is spot on, though I would have liked to have spent more time with some of the minor characters such as the family Karen is trying to help gain residency.

Sean is a character with legs, who is not the usual hardened policeman and I can’t wait for the next book and his next case.

 A page-turning debut.                                                                                            10/10

 

For more information on Helen Cadbury see:

www.helencadbury.com
twitter.com/helencadbury

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