A Slow Fire Burning

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The author decided to create a slow burn mystery which could be helpful to build high tension and increase the expectations of the readers as the pace gets faster at the second half. I wouldn't say I read an awful lot but I do know that if I had to pick a favourite author at the moment I would say Paula Hawkins. Overall: maybe this book may have been promoted as contemporary fiction, I could have a chance to like it more.

Set along a stretch of Regent’s Canal, Hawkins has created an exquisite sense of place (there’s even a helpful illustrated map… there’s the Sekforde Arms! Harks back to peak-period Barbara Vine with its beautifully drawn characters and its offbeat London setting .

He glanced at the bookcase filled with paperbacks, at the dusty peace lily sitting on top of it, the framed photograph of a homely couple flanking their big-boned child.

And we know that Hawkins loves her unstable female characters whom the reader feels frustrated and sympathy with, in equal measure. The relationship she forms with the 80-year-old lady (whose name I can’t remember) is lovely, they care for one another, and it’s an excellent example of young and old helping each other and keeping company to the benefit of both parties.Bending down when no such response came, her attempt to peer into the cabin thwarted by the net curtain coupled with what looked like a decade's worth of city and river grime. I inhaled this novel, a gripping exploration of the damage that secrets can do, Hawkins' writing draws you in from the first word and refuses to let you go until the last.

This was a very dark story as a whole, and I don't even know that the murder mystery in itself was what I was most intrigued by; the characters however were another thing! From the first sentence to the last, this explosive , startling novel grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go.Miriam is a middle aged woman, living just several boats down from the boat where Daniel is brutally murdered. The detective was nodding again, noting all this down, and Miriam felt sure it wouldn't take him long to figure out exactly who she was talking about. The detective was sitting opposite her, his knees almost touching her own, his shoulders hunched and back rounded. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

On her way to the bedroom, she stepped on her jacket, which she'd dropped in the hallway in her rush to get to the bathroom. A Slow Fire Burning is a treat: utterly readable, moving in parts and saturated with the kind of localised detail that made The Girl on the Train so compelling .Fast-paced , highly charged and carried off with so much confidence that it is impossible to resist . As a result she couldn’t help herself getting into trouble with both employers and police and you really feel for her as she gets involved in a houseboat murder. It’s a saying well-known to those recovering from destructive relationships, and it’s also the theme of the book.