In the present day’s staff evaluate is from Sandra.
Sandra blogs right here https://www.firthproof.co.uk/index.php/book-reviews
Sandra has been studying The Lady On The Boat by JD Wooden.
The Lady on the Boat is listed as the primary ebook within the Cal and Sofie sequence, however this can be a bit deceptive. It’s really the primary half of a two-part story which concludes in Don’t Look Down. It’s higher to know this earlier than you begin studying as it is going to be much less complicated. The plot is difficult, however in easy phrases it considerations a pharmaceutical firm, Cambridge Bio, based by MP Walter Crane, and an unlawful drug trial. Crane has aspirations to turn into chief of his get together, one thing the Russians are additionally working behind the scenes to facilitate. Sofie’s dad, who was taking part within the drug trial, died six months beforehand in what was presumed to be an accident. Sofie’s journalist pal Kate is investigating the drug firm and crops the seed of doubt that attracts Sofie into this harmful conspiracy.
The story is advised from each Sofie and Cal’s perspective, with extra sections from different characters, so the reader will get a rounded image of what’s going on and is aware of greater than both Sofie or Cal. Of the 2, I discovered Cal extra plausible than Sofie. I don’t know if this was a case of a male author not making a convincing feminine protagonist, however I actually didn’t take to Sofie in any respect. Hopefully, the following a part of the story will change my opinion. Aside from a brief dialog close to the start, Cal and Sofie don’t meet correctly till virtually the tip of The Lady on the Boat. In books like this there would usually be much more interplay between the primary characters earlier within the narrative. It is a promising debut thriller from JD Wooden, although he has written in different genres, and I look ahead to studying the conclusion to Sofia and Cal’s journey.
E book Description:
E book 1 of the brand-new Cal & Sofie thriller sequence
When 26-year-old Sofie James, recovering from her father’s current suicide, learns from a journalist pal that he could have been the sufferer of a secret drug trial, she is determined to uncover the reality. Nonetheless, once they meet up with two pharma firm whistleblowers on a Thames river boat, all of it goes improper: her pal and the 2 males are shot and left for lifeless, and she or he narrowly escapes together with her life.
Shockingly, they disappear, together with the proof, and the police don’t imagine her. As a witness, her life is now in horrible hazard, not least as a result of the chairman of the corporate conducting the drug trial, Cambridge Bio, is a number one politician. Pressured to attempt to remedy the thriller on her personal, Sofie goes on the run. However there’s another person on the lookout for her: ex-Particular Forces Cal Harrison had been tasked by Cambridge with ‘defending’ the whistleblowers, and he suspects he’s been arrange. When he begins to query their disappearance, he finds himself framed for his or her homicide.
His solely hope of saving himself, and attending to the reality, is to seek out the lady on the boat…
