A review by melaniesreads
The Last Stage by Louise Voss
4.0
This was a book of two parts for me. It started with a slow burning character driven narrative. Giving little snippets of Meredith’s past. I love an unreliable narrator and she is not only keeping secrets but lies to the police and her best friend.
Then once the body is found it becomes unsettling and almost claustrophobic in atmosphere. The setting of an isolated stately home really ramped up the creep factor.
DC Gemma McMeekin and DS Mark Davis, hilariously nicknamed Dark Mavis and new officer and old friend Emad Khan made for a brilliant police team and I hope the author will feature them again. Once they start working the case more things come to light and the tension racks up the pace until the frenzied conclusion.
I went into this as a first time reader of Louise Voss and was drawn in by how well she writes strong female characters. Meredith, the striking Samantha, Gemma and Paula are all really different but utterly believable.
This very much felt like doing a jigsaw puzzle where the lid is missing so you have to take your time to work out what goes where, going in blind until piece by piece the picture is revealed. Then getting a surprise because it’s a different picture than what you thought.
Then once the body is found it becomes unsettling and almost claustrophobic in atmosphere. The setting of an isolated stately home really ramped up the creep factor.
DC Gemma McMeekin and DS Mark Davis, hilariously nicknamed Dark Mavis and new officer and old friend Emad Khan made for a brilliant police team and I hope the author will feature them again. Once they start working the case more things come to light and the tension racks up the pace until the frenzied conclusion.
I went into this as a first time reader of Louise Voss and was drawn in by how well she writes strong female characters. Meredith, the striking Samantha, Gemma and Paula are all really different but utterly believable.
This very much felt like doing a jigsaw puzzle where the lid is missing so you have to take your time to work out what goes where, going in blind until piece by piece the picture is revealed. Then getting a surprise because it’s a different picture than what you thought.