Janet
Wingers seemed to have been one of the many that went missing, even though it's
almost unheard of for such a thing to happen in Central London. And how could
she have disappeared from an enclosed dressing room at the mall?
Described as
a "thriller suspense set in London," Hollow Town follows the investigation of a little girl's
disappearance. Harry, a lead detective the parents hire for the case, believed
this to be a crime of trafficking by a Saudi Arabian cartel. Then the story
takes an alternate route, revealing how a wealthy Middle Eastern man named
Ahmed was kidnapping these girls to support his lavish lifestyle.
Short, quick,
and simple, story was pretty straightforward, although I kind of felt that it
was a little too scattered. It didn't really have a natural flow. I mean, one
minute, we are reading about the so-called versatile Patricia, who works for
the detective agency that suspects the Middle Easterners, and the next minute,
we read about a woman's abusive relationship with the Middle Eastern man, who
confessed to all these kidnappings. And this was all in the first chapter. I
mean, I honestly thought that Patricia was going to be the lead detective by
how it started, but it turns out that a couple of gangsters were on the case. And
why was there even a case when Ahmed practically revealed his whole operation
to this ex-girlfriend, who confessed everything to the police? Perhaps the
"thrill" was in catching this guy and his villainous cohorts. It just
felt all over the place. There really wasn't much direction or real
"thrill" in it. There was also a few typos in it, which I managed to
overlook for the most part.
The writing
was okay, and I liked the concept and all, but no way would I have called this
a "thriller."
My rating: 3 stars
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