Trial by Blood - John Macken

Billed as a crime thriller, the emphasis needs to be on the 'thriller' aspect. Although this is definitely a novel about terrible crimes, the action is more suited to an espionage story and could easily be made into an action movie. In fact, much of the time that's what I felt like I was reading, and since that was not why I picked up the book, I was a little disappointed. AUTHOR BACKGROUND Macken is a scientist so he writes convincingly about the science - in fact, sometimes he writes a scene that could so genuinely take place between scientists that I can't really follow it! This really only happens once or twice in the early chapters, but is ...  Read the complete review