Lane: A Case for Willows and Laneby Peter Grainger
Very enjoyable British action thriller. Not the mystery I was expecting--well, no, there was a mystery behind why the villains were acting the way they were, but that part of the detection was done by police inspector Willows. Scenes of the detection were interlaid with the action flick--Willow's elderly mother Emily and Lane, a former police detective retired by necessity when she sustained major injuries. I don't think I was supposed ot know that at the beginning, but the cover gave it away.
Lane reminded me very much of Julia Spencer Fleming's heroine, The Reverend Claire Ferguson. She's gutsy and tough and thinks on her feet; she's realistic in her assessment of her physical strength when confronted by a male adversary. The only trait I missed in her is an inability in using the tools in her environment as weapons. But then again, she was trained at the Police Academy, not the United States Army.
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