The White Crow

 

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the gifted audiobook! Happy #thrillerthursday book pals! 

I love a good police procedural. I was happy when Michael Robotham’s The White Crow published earlier this month. It’s the second book in the Philomena McCarthy series. Philomena is a young and ambitious officer in London. But she comes from a family of notorious gangsters. Her career often bumps up against the family business.

In this book, Philomena finds a little girl wandering the streets alone very early in the morning. The girl is soon connected to the robbery of a jewelry store and the murder of her mother.

The police investigation leads back to Philomena‘s father and her uncles. But the pieces of the puzzle don’t add up. Meanwhile, Philomena‘s father and uncles are dealing with an interloper who is disrupting the family business and threatening to take everything. Here’s the full summary from the publisher: 

Philomena McCarthy has defied the odds to become a young officer with the Metropolitan Police despite her father and her uncles being notorious London gangsters.

On patrol one night, Philomena finds a barefoot child, covered in blood, who says she can’t wake her mother. Meanwhile, three miles away, a London jeweler has a bomb strapped to his chest in his ransacked store and millions are missing.

These two events collide and threaten Philomena’s career, her new marriage, and her life. In too deep, and falling further, Phil must decide who she can trust—her family or her colleagues—and on what side of the thin blue line she wants to live.

This is a fast paced and intricately plotted story that’s told from multiple points of view. It’s filled with tension and suspense as Philomena races to put all the pieces together. Even though this is the second book in a series, it can definitely be read as a standalone. Katy Sobey does an excellent job with the narration, conveying lots of tension and emotion. I’m definitely recommending this one. This is a great police procedural featuring a strong female main character. I’m already looking forward to the next book in the series. 

Do you like to binge read a series all at once or read as it’s published? 

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About the Author

Michael Robotham is a former investigative journalist whose bestselling psychological thrillers have been translated into twenty-five languages. He has twice won a Ned Kelly Award for Australia’s best crime novel, for Lost in 2005 and Shatter in 2008. His recent novels include When She Was Good, winner of the UK’s Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller; The Secrets She Keeps; Good Girl, Bad Girl; When You Are Mine; Lying Beside You; Storm Child; and The White Crow. After living and writing all over the world, Robotham settled his family in Sydney, Australia.