Then there’s the puzzle of the posed dead body showing signs of a ritual killing and surrounded by what looked like Norse runes. I loved the wit and deliberately dramatic scene-setting. ‘At First Light’ is also dark, it’s about ritual killings after all, but it is, from the first page, a glorious cinematic entertainment that feels like a striking anime that uses strong lines and a dark palette to create an atmosphere that is one part threat, one part humour and two parts sheer escapism. I’d expected the book to be good because I had enjoyed ‘Blood On The Tracks’, the first book in Barbara Nickless’ Sydney Rose Parnell series about an ex-soldier turned railroad cop and her service dog, but that was quite a dark and serious book with the mystery wrapped around the causes and effects of PTSD. That’s what happened to me with ‘At First Light’. It’s wonderful when you pick up a book with few expectations and then find yourself swept away by it so that you are reluctant to put it down until you reach the end.
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