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Just Another Missing Person
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If you know me you know I NEVER don’t finish a book once I’ve started. But when you have someone who thwarts a mugging by doing what all young women are taught to do and swinging her keys at her assailant . . . and said keys just so happen to make the most unfortunate contact and land right in his jugular � that is called self-defense. You do not, as a highly skilled detective especially, destroy the evidence and leave the would-be mugger for dead so you can now be blackmailed in a new missing persons case. DNF at 49 pages . . .
I have said before I can only suspend my disbelief so much when it comes to professionals acting like idiots. Police, doctors, lawyers � nope. Act like you have half a brain. Drunken bimbo across the street of a train who is gone? Yep, get stupid. I love it.
I have said before I can only suspend my disbelief so much when it comes to professionals acting like idiots. Police, doctors, lawyers � nope. Act like you have half a brain. Drunken bimbo across the street of a train who is gone? Yep, get stupid. I love it.
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Aug 14, 2023 08:59AM
Same. It's easier for me to believe in monsters than professionals doing dumb ass shit
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Dan wrote: "Same. It's easier for me to believe in monsters than professionals doing dumb ass shit"I almost can't even read legal thrillers because I've worked in law firms too long, but this one took the cake!
Ok yes, I had the same thought! I was wondering if maybe the laws are different in the UK? Seems like it would have been more effective of a blackmail situation if her daughter like, accidentally killed a pedestrian or something. Just a weird situation to cover up.
I went and read the English self defense laws (nerd alert) and I can see why she’d be concerned that the key was a “weapon� that is not “reasonable force� for the situation. Maybe. Enough to convince me to suspend disbelief enough to keep reading at least, lol. Still think she could have written something less borderline.
Louise wrote: "I went and read the English self defense laws (nerd alert) and I can see why she’d be concerned that the key was a “weapon� that is not “reasonable force� for the situation. Maybe. Enough to convin..."I did that recently on an Australia plotline that was too farfetched for me to believe without reading up on it! Aside from the self defense - to me the idea of there only being ONE camera catching the act so presto chango just destroy the CCTV box and no more evidence was the icing on the cake that I could not do any more of this one LOL.
You DNF at 49 pages! There's hope for me yet!
Agree!! I just kept thinking.. how is self defense a crime? Maybe in the UK you can’t defend yourself.. anyway the whole thing was not believable to me. I hate when characters have these secrets or things held over them then you finally find out what it is and it’s so stupid and unbelievable
I had the same thought as Louise, maybe UK laws are different? I personally enjoyed the book but that definitely confused me. A self defense “crime� was a lot to hang the book on.
Maybe I need to remove this one from my library queue.
I thought the same thing, I almost stopped reading the book.
I was beyond frustrated at the "lawyer" protagonist in her other book. Is "professionals engaging in nonsense" her thing?
Louise and Becca- thank u! me too! Such a great book otherwise, but what’s up there? UK law? I absolutely would have written it as a “texting while driving� or some other much more culpable accidental death.
I felt the same, and I couldn't continue the book after that
This was more believable for me…in Canada, we aren’t allowed to use ANYTHING as a weapon! Can’t carry pepper spray (some use bear spray as an alternative, but it is still seen as a weapon if we are in areas that don’t have bears), can’t carry a baseball bat in the car (some circumvent by also carrying a glove and a baseball), etc, etc�
I agree, I am struggling to continue this book after finding out what Julia is being blackmailed for. I’m trying to understand why she thinks her daughter would go to jail for manslaughter or murder for defending herself. All I can come up with is maybe it’s different in the UK (I am American)? I’m having a hard time suspending my disbelief enough to get into this story.
Just found this review after I decided to DNF at page 50 for the same reason!
