Imagine my excitement when I picked up The White Crow, the new crime novel by Michael Robotham, and discovered he’d opened with a quote from one of my favourite authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald:
‘…in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning.’
And for the main character, Philomena McCarthy, that’s exactly what it feels like—for the entire novel.
And why wouldn’t it? She has a promising career with the Metropolitan Police in London, a father who heads a crime family...