‘Remember, Remember’ by Lisa Cutts

Published by Myriad Editions,
21 August 2014.
ISBN: 978-1-908-43439-5

An interesting slant on the realities of our police-force and their methods, written by a former policewoman who clearly knows what she is talking about.   DC Nina Foster – likable and realistic – was attacked and badly wounded in Cutts' previous crime novel,Never Forget, and now is returning to work after months of recuperation.  To ease her back into police routine, she is given a fifty-year-old Cold Case involving a fatal train crash on a level crossing. 

 

At first she is bored by being kept out of the daily routine of drug-related deaths, robberies and gun-crimes, but eventually she begins to find links between that long-ago accident, and current-day criminal activity, and gradually finds herself back in the mainstream of police-work.

 

I found the relationship between the flawed and all-too-human DC Foster and her colleagues particularly convincing.  As well as the good guys, Cutts has drawn her criminals realistically, even sympathetically, and given them some complexity within their well-drawn backgrounds and histories.   Definitely a good read.

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Reviewer; Susan Moody

Lisa Cutts  is the daughter of a former Metropolitan police officer and obtained her first degree in Law, working in a number of jobs in London and around the South East area, before becoming a police officer herself in 1996. She later achieved a second degree in Applied Criminal Investigation. She lives in Kent, where she balances working full-time for Kent Police with writing crime fiction. An extract from Never Forget (now optioned for a major TV drama) won the Writer’s Retreat Competition in 2012. Remember, Remember is the second book in the DC Nina Foster series.

www.lisacutts.co.uk

Susan Moody was born in Oxford is the principal nom de plume  of Susan Elizabeth Donaldson, née Horwood, a British novelist best known for her suspense novels. She is a former Chairman of the Crime Writer's Association, served as World President of the International Association of Crime Writers, and was elected to the prestigious Detection Club. Susan Moody has given numerous courses on writing crime fiction and continues to teach creative writing in England, France, Australia, the USA and Denmark.  In addition to her many stand alone books, Susan has written two series, one featuring PI Penny Wanawake (seven books) and a series of six books featuring bridge player Cassie Swan. Her most recent series features Former Detective Inspector Alexandra Quick. There are three books in the series.