The Night Women

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The Night Women by Sara Blaedel

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Maybe a 3.5 read for me. I might have gone to four stars except it wasn't quite my type of police procedural, leaning heavy into the no one cares about trafficked women theme. Might be too realistic in that respect. It's also entrenched in eastern Europe and the atrocities in former Yugoslavia. There are two story lines, the trafficked women and the killings that surround them and babies being left in a local church.

Louise is a detective investigating the prostitutes and her friend Camille, an investigative journalist is looking into that and the baby as it was her eleven year old son and his friend, the pastor's son, found the baby. However her story leads to another killing and Camille spins out into a deep depression which honestly takes up a bit too much of the story for me.

The other reason I gave it three stars is the whole thing felt a bit overly long at 400 pages. And after a clue given at the halfway point solved the mystery for me which okay I like it when I get clues but it's like what was taking them so long to figure out what was rather obvious.

I liked Louise though, Camille less son. I'd read more of the series.



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