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From the PR:<\/strong> \u201cWhat if one moment \u2013 one split second \u2013 changed everything?
When a firearms officer shoots a suspect dead and wounds another, who later dies in hospital, the official line is that the sun was in her eyes. Her body cam failed. Known only as Officer X, her anonymity is meant to protect her \u2013 until a judge releases her name and a media storm erupts.<\/p>\n

Detective Superintendent Jack Dylan and DI Charley Mann are called in to determine whether it was a justifiable use of force \u2013 or something darker. And when it\u2019s revealed that Officer X knew the victim, and her brother died of a drug overdose linked to the same woman, the case becomes charged with personal and political tension.<\/p>\n

As pressure mounts, a vulnerable witness dies and a lost phone surfaces with a photograph and a message that could unravel everything \u2013 and reveal the truth about what happened that day. Split Second brings Dylan and Mann together for the first time, in an investigation that will test their instincts, their loyalties and the limits of justice itself, as both detectives must decide how far they\u2019ll go \u2013 and what they\u2019re willing to sacrifice \u2013 to uncover the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

This book gave me sunburn. Well, maybe not directly but it sure enough contributed to it. I blasted through this in two sittings, the first of which was on a beach in Brittany where \u2018just one more chapter\u2019 meant reapplying sunscreen slipped my mind. It\u2019s just such a monumentally gripping book. Those two sessions absolutely flew by \u2013 Split Second<\/em> is so immensely addictive and satisfying that there\u2019s no real question of finishing it as soon as you pick it up. <\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t mean, though, that this is a novel without depth or substance, far from it. This is an intensely rich and detailed story with plenty of twists and populated by great characters. There\u2019s no doubting that R.C. Bridgestock know what they\u2019re talking about. Husband-and-wife writing team Carol and Bob both worked for West Yorkshire Police \u2013 Bob eventually becoming Head of CID \u2013 and that experience is apparent throughout Split Second<\/em>. Procedure isn\u2019t simply something sprinkled around the edges to make everything look convincing; it informs the way the investigation develops, the decisions people make and, perhaps more importantly, the consequences of those decisions. There\u2019s a weight and credibility to it that\u2019s too often sacrificed in crime fiction in the rush to get to the next body, revelation or conveniently timed car chase.<\/p>\n

This is probably a good point to admit that, historically, the home-grown British police thriller hasn\u2019t been particularly high on my reading list. That may seem slightly odd given how often I\u2019ve complained about people who simply declare entire genres off-limits, but hypocrisy comes for us all eventually. Perhaps it\u2019s the familiarity of it. Years of mundane interactions with the local constabulary and seemingly endless television programmes involving police officers standing beside wet roundabouts have never quite offered the same escapism as, say, a semi-alcoholic Norwegian detective pursuing murderers through the snow, or a one-man army called Jack arriving in some unfortunate town shortly before half its population requires medical attention. Which, given how much I bloody loved this book, may have been something of a mistake.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also going to mention here that I came to Split Second<\/em> knowing absolutely nothing about R.C. Bridgestock\u2019s previous books. Detective Superintendent Jack Dylan and DI Charley Mann may be the protagonists of two established series \u2013 and their coming together here may well mean considerably more to existing readers \u2013 but both were complete strangers to me. Happily, that proved no obstacle whatsoever. There\u2019s no sense that you\u2019ve arrived late to a party and are expected to know who everyone is, nor any requirement to head off and read any previous novels before being allowed through the door. Split Second<\/em> works perfectly well as a thriller in its own right, and a highly addictive one at that. In fact, it\u2019s so bloody addictive that I\u2019m now impatient for the follow-up. Without venturing anywhere near spoiler territory, Split Second<\/em> doesn\u2019t so much finish as pull the rug out from underneath your feet and disappear.<\/p>\n

It does, however, mean R.C Bridgestock have managed something I really wasn\u2019t expecting when I picked this one up. Not only have they completely dismantled my own, admittedly ill-founded, reluctance toward the British police procedural, they\u2019ve left me invested in characters I\u2019d never encountered before and am impatient to find out where they\u2019re going next.<\/p>\n

More importantly, Split Second<\/em> is simply a cracking read. It\u2019s intelligent without ever getting bogged down in its own detail, authentic without endlessly pointing at the research behind that authenticity and ridiculously difficult to put down. I went into it knowing nothing of the writers or their existing characters and came out the other side wanting more of them all \u2013 just need to ensure that next time I remember the sunscreen. <\/p>\n

My thanks to Orenda Books for my copy of Split Second<\/em>\u00a0and to Anne Cater for inviting me to review as part of the blog tour.<\/p>\n

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