Book Review: No Good Deed

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

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Manda Scott
Class/Genre:   Mystery
Bantam, Apr 2002, $22.95, 320 pp.

In Glasgow, Detective Inspector Orla McLeod and her partner Luke Tyler work undercover. They plan to bring to an end the brutal Tord Svensen’s criminal empire. However, everything quickly unravels as either someone on their team informed Tord or they slipped up somehow because they are spotted as infiltrating intruders. When the dust settles, Luke is dead and the only person living who can identify Tord is the nine-year-old boy who saved Orla’s life even as he watched his own mother killed.

Orla realizes that she must keep the lad Jamie Buchanan safe, but Glasgow means death for the youngster. She takes him to the Scottish Highlands, but Tord is coming. No one lives if they can finger Tord.

NO GOOD DEED is as good a police procedural thriller as it gets. The story line is powerful and descriptive even with the villain identified almost from the start. The action moves out as soon as the reader begins the opening paragraph. Yet Manda Scott insures that the characters are fully developed, especially the haunted Orla. As she did with HEN’S TEETH, Ms. Scott provides a Scottish police procedural worth reading by anyone who relishes a loaded fast -paced thriller.

Harriet Klausner

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