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|title=In Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)
|author=Marion Todd
|reviewer=Sue Magee
|genre=Crime
|summary=The second book in the series and it's even better than the first. A real pager-turner and excellent read.
|rating=4.5
|buy=Yes
|borrow=Yes
|pages=311
|publisher=Canelo
|date=February 2020
|isbn=B07ZGL6B1B
|website=https://www.northbanktalent.com › clients › marion-todd
|cover=B07ZGL6B1B
|aznuk=B07ZGL6B1B
|aznus=B07ZGL6B1B
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It was a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby was stolen. They were there for the fun run and their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt the race. They're against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed on Priory Marsh and the firm is sponsoring the fun run. It was Lisa Mitchell's scream which stopped everything. Her daughter, six-month-old Abi, had been taken from her pram whilst no one was looking. It's a major incident when ''any'' child is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because of a heart problem: without it, she might have only forty-eight hours to live.
The Scottish town of St Andrews doesn't have a Detective Chief Inspector on the roster and one would have to be brought in the oversee the investigation. Unfortunately for Chris West, it was Tony McAvettie: they have history from when McAvettie was on the wrong end of a punch delivered by West when the DCI slept with his girlfriend. Clare Mackay will have all on to protect West if there's a repetition and she's worried that there seems to be something amiss in the ongoing relationship between West and PC Sara Stapleton. The one point which gives her hope is that McAvettie is planning his next promotion (or pay increase of £10k a year, which seems to be the bit that interests him) and he's not ''that'' invested in the investigation.
I first met DI Clare Mackay in [[See Them Run by Marion Todd|See Them Run]] and I was impressed. It was the first book in a new series and there was an awful lot to like, so it only took me a moment to decide that I was going to read ''In Plain Sight''. There's always that slight worry that the book won't live up to expectations, but I forgot that very quickly. I was only a few pages in before I was completely hooked. The characterisation is excellent: in ''See Them Run'' I was a little concerned that only DS West from Mackay's police team really came off the page, but that wasn't the case this time around. At the end of the book, I was looking forward not, just to the next novel in the series, but to catching up with people I felt I knew.
The location is good too - firmly rooted in the area to the north-east of Edinburgh. Once again Marion Rodd doesn't rely - or even really mention - the golfing and university connections: this is simply the place where real people live, work and have their baby stolen. I could walk the streets, smell the sea air and hear the gulls scream.
The plot is good too. It wasn't one where I was tempted to try and work the answers out for myself: I was happy to be along for the ride and to enjoy a very satisfying solution. I'd like to thank the publishers for letting Bookbag have a review copy.
For more crime set in St Andrews, have a look at [[Eye for an Eye (DCI Andy Gilchrist) by T F Muir]].
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|title=In Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)
|author=Marion Todd
|reviewer=Sue Magee
|genre=Crime
|summary=The second book in the series and it's even better than the first. A real pager-turner and excellent read.
|rating=4.5
|buy=Yes
|borrow=Yes
|pages=311
|publisher=Canelo
|date=February 2020
|isbn=B07ZGL6B1B
|website=https://www.northbanktalent.com › clients › marion-todd
|cover=B07ZGL6B1B
|aznuk=B07ZGL6B1B
|aznus=B07ZGL6B1B
}}
It was a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby was stolen. They were there for the fun run and their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt the race. They're against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed on Priory Marsh and the firm is sponsoring the fun run. It was Lisa Mitchell's scream which stopped everything. Her daughter, six-month-old Abi, had been taken from her pram whilst no one was looking. It's a major incident when ''any'' child is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because of a heart problem: without it, she might have only forty-eight hours to live.
The Scottish town of St Andrews doesn't have a Detective Chief Inspector on the roster and one would have to be brought in the oversee the investigation. Unfortunately for Chris West, it was Tony McAvettie: they have history from when McAvettie was on the wrong end of a punch delivered by West when the DCI slept with his girlfriend. Clare Mackay will have all on to protect West if there's a repetition and she's worried that there seems to be something amiss in the ongoing relationship between West and PC Sara Stapleton. The one point which gives her hope is that McAvettie is planning his next promotion (or pay increase of £10k a year, which seems to be the bit that interests him) and he's not ''that'' invested in the investigation.
I first met DI Clare Mackay in [[See Them Run by Marion Todd|See Them Run]] and I was impressed. It was the first book in a new series and there was an awful lot to like, so it only took me a moment to decide that I was going to read ''In Plain Sight''. There's always that slight worry that the book won't live up to expectations, but I forgot that very quickly. I was only a few pages in before I was completely hooked. The characterisation is excellent: in ''See Them Run'' I was a little concerned that only DS West from Mackay's police team really came off the page, but that wasn't the case this time around. At the end of the book, I was looking forward not, just to the next novel in the series, but to catching up with people I felt I knew.
The location is good too - firmly rooted in the area to the north-east of Edinburgh. Once again Marion Rodd doesn't rely - or even really mention - the golfing and university connections: this is simply the place where real people live, work and have their baby stolen. I could walk the streets, smell the sea air and hear the gulls scream.
The plot is good too. It wasn't one where I was tempted to try and work the answers out for myself: I was happy to be along for the ride and to enjoy a very satisfying solution. I'd like to thank the publishers for letting Bookbag have a review copy.
For more crime set in St Andrews, have a look at [[Eye for an Eye (DCI Andy Gilchrist) by T F Muir]].
{{amazontext|amazon=B07ZGL6B1B}}
{{amazonUStext|amazon=B07ZGL6B1B}}
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