Christine Campbell
Autor/a de Strife and Progress: Portfolio Strategies for Managing Urban Schools
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A Scottish mother searching for her runaway daughter becomes a reluctant detective for other parents. Set in Scotland Mirabelle uses her snooping and compassion to help reunite families.
This follows “Traces of Red” though not as enjoyable as the characters are becoming over-the-top characterizations and the runaway daughter is given story lines that do not make sense or fit my logic.
A great travelogue for the Isle of Skye.
This follows “Traces of Red” though not as enjoyable as the characters are becoming over-the-top characterizations and the runaway daughter is given story lines that do not make sense or fit my logic.
A great travelogue for the Isle of Skye.
A Scottish mother searching for her runaway daughter becomes a reluctant detective for other parents. Set in Scotland Mirabelle uses her snooping and compassion to help reunite families.
At first I didn't like the authors use of Scotts vernacular but I was able to filter it out and concentrate on the story.
A different kind of detective story with real characters.
At first I didn't like the authors use of Scotts vernacular but I was able to filter it out and concentrate on the story.
A different kind of detective story with real characters.
Traces of Red is the second book in The Reluctant Detective Series by Christine Campbell. Once again, the irrepressible Mirabelle helps her soulmate, DI Sam Burns, solve a complicated case but there is no need for you to have read Searching for Summer, the first book in the series, since the back story is gradually revealed during this novel.
Mirabelle has given up her work as a social worker and has turned her small Edinburgh flat into a Missing Person’s Bureau. Usually these are young women, so she is surprised when Kay, a quiet middle class woman, seeks help finding her missing husband. It is soon evident that all has not been right in this marriage and Kay is keen to help Mirabelle by organising her files and accompanying her on investigations.
Meanwhile DI Burns is interviewing a barman at a pub where a baby was found and he is trying to find the mother and her female companion. He enlists Mirabelle’s help when an injured young woman is found but she also helps Sam to deal with the loss of his much loved mother.
All the characters in Christine Campbell’s books are distinct and real. They seem to talk directly to the reader so that it matters what happens to them. The interwoven strands of this story reminded me of Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie books as does the bittersweet ending to the novel. I highly recommend Traces of Red whether you like mystery, detective or contemporary stories.
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Mirabelle has given up her work as a social worker and has turned her small Edinburgh flat into a Missing Person’s Bureau. Usually these are young women, so she is surprised when Kay, a quiet middle class woman, seeks help finding her missing husband. It is soon evident that all has not been right in this marriage and Kay is keen to help Mirabelle by organising her files and accompanying her on investigations.
Meanwhile DI Burns is interviewing a barman at a pub where a baby was found and he is trying to find the mother and her female companion. He enlists Mirabelle’s help when an injured young woman is found but she also helps Sam to deal with the loss of his much loved mother.
All the characters in Christine Campbell’s books are distinct and real. They seem to talk directly to the reader so that it matters what happens to them. The interwoven strands of this story reminded me of Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie books as does the bittersweet ending to the novel. I highly recommend Traces of Red whether you like mystery, detective or contemporary stories.
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A different kind of detective story with characters you can relate to.