The Girls Beneath

so-so

Tom Mondrian is just coasting at life really but it suddenly veers out of his control. His worklife as a PCSO is unfulfilling, whilst in his personal life his girlfriend tells him that she has been having an affair & is about to leave him. Later that morning, a stray bullet leaves Tom with a brain injury. Weeks later & back at work, he realises that the injury has given him a new perspective on life including the cases he works on.

OutsmartYourShelf Tom has trouble remembering faces, but now sees things & makes connections that others don't & decides he & PCSO partner, Emre Bartu, are about to solve the cases of several missing girls.

This is a slightly unusual police procedural crime fiction read. Tom's character changes after the shooting & he now has no filter with how he speaks & it can take him a while to think of the correct words. 5mo

OutsmartYourShelf He also visualises smells as colours & musical notes, a condition known as synesthesia. It's a different take compared to the usual 'maverick detective' trope, but it can be difficult at times to follow his thought processes. Also some aspects of it are just too far out of the bounds of reality & the 'baddie' was also easy to spot which was a little disappointing as I was hoping it would be a little more involved than that. 3⭐
(edited) 5mo

OutsmartYourShelf Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3936345468
Read 6th-7th May 2024

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DieAReader 🥳Great! 5mo

Librarybelle Sounds like there is a lot going on in the story and for the main character 5mo

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