Review:- Lin ANDERSON – “Final Cut”

Year Published: - 2009
Where the book was from:- Pensby Library
ISBN: - 978 0 340 92244 6
Pages: - 344pp
Genre: - Crime
Location:- Glasgow and surrounding area
How I came across it: - Serendipity
Rating: - ***** **
One sentence summary:- Lost in a snow storm after her mother’s car crashed, a young girl is found in woods clutching a skull; thereby distracting forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod from investigating a body in a burned skip.

General comments:- This is the sixth Rhona MacLeod book.

I don't like the cover - which shows a damaged doll. A skull would have been acceptable but the damaged doll makes it seem like a horror story - it nearly put me off reading it.

AUTHOR Notes:- Lin Anderson was born in Greenock of Scottish and Irish parents. A graduate of both Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities, she has lived in many different parts of Scotland and also spent five years working in the African bush. A teacher of Mathematics and Computing, she began her writing career four years ago. Her first film, Small Love, which was broadcast on STV, was nominated for TAPS writer of the year award 2001. Her African short stories have been published in the 10th Anniversary Macallan collection and broadcast on BBC Radio Four.