Book Review: Little Girl Blue

Reviewed By: Luke Croll - RAM

Little Girl Blue     Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
David Cray
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Police Procedural   Woman Main Character
Carroll & Gray; 2002; $24.00; 320pp
Classification Adult fiction (mystery)

Lieutenant Julia Brennan heads the investigation into the body of a naked young girl. She finds her life turned upside down as she struggles to identify the child and bring the guilty parties to justice, finding herself in a world of paedophiles and foreign adoption agencies. However, as she gets closer to the killer, the killer is coming closer to her own home and her own child.

'Little Girl Blue' deals with a topic that most of us find abhorrent - paedophilia. Cray does not go into detail about sexual acts or anything of that ilk, meaning that although the general subject matter is paedophilia, we never find out enough to make us wish to put the book down. Instead, it actually keeps us hooked as Cray leads us through his (at times) complicated plot.

He succeeds in creating two very interesting characters, Peter and Brennan, both of whom have various sides to their character and I can easily imagine seeing them again in a future novel. A detailed novel, with clearly checked facts, Cray does well in bringing New York City alive and writing an enjoyable, recommended tale. Dark, fast-paced and well written, Cray has another success on his hands here.

Luke Croll - RAM

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