Right this moment Mandie is sharing her overview of The Redeemer, the debut thriller from Victoria Goldman, that includes her Shanna Regan. I reviewed the ebook on its launch two years in the past advert you may learn my ideas right here. Right here’s what it’s all about:
Launch Date: 12 July 2022
Writer: Three Crowns Publishing
In regards to the Ebook
‘REPENT BEFORE YOU DIE … OR MAY YOU NEVER R.I.P.’
Threatening plaques, vigilante killings, a Jewish group in an English city – what’s the hyperlink? The clock is ticking to the following homicide.
After witnessing a racist incident in a small Hertfordshire city, journalist Shanna Regan uncovers a sequence of threatening pretend commemorative plaques. Every plaque highlights somebody’s misdemeanour relatively than a great deed.
Delving deeper, Shanna discovers these plaques are linked to vigilante killings spanning a number of a long time, with ties to the native Jewish group.
As her seek for the reality turns into private, Shanna places her personal life at risk. Can she cease the following homicide in time?
The Redeemer is a compelling, thought-provoking homicide thriller debut, that includes themes of prejudice and racism, id and heritage, revenge and redemption, and secrets and techniques from the previous.
Mandie’s Ideas
The Redeemer is a ebook that has been on my TBR pile for longer that it ought to have been, however I’ve now lastly rectified that error. That is the primary ebook within the Shanna Regan Thriller sequence, and it takes you into the fact of antisemitism and revenge killings.
Shanna Reagan has just lately moved again to the city the place she grew up earlier than her mom died after years of travelling round. While she is meant to be investigating the origins of the blue plaques within the space, she witnesses an assault on a Jewish lady by some native youths. Decided to not allow them to win she manages to chase them off and after chatting to the sufferer she is advised of one other plaque close by. What’s shortly evident is that this isn’t an official plaque however extra of a calling out of somebody’s wrongdoing, one which the individual additionally pays the value for.
It’s clear from the beginning that Shanna is sad in her job and that could be a means to an finish when she finds any excuse to not be within the workplace, a lot preferring to research the unofficial plaques which are dotted round the local people. As she slowly makes discoveries in regards to the occasions and all their victims, we additionally study extra about Shanna and the previous that she appears to want to maintain hidden, the explanations for this grow to be evident quickly sufficient and it’s extra about self-preservation.
As extra of Shanna’s previous is revealed to each the reader and Shanna herself the weather of the story all grow to be interwoven with one another, and also you see how particular person occasions spiralled uncontrolled till these concerned had been caught up in a series of actions that they may not escape however would do something to forestall being found. There may be additionally a sinister shadow from Shanna’s previous who will do something to intimidate her into giving them what they need.
On the coronary heart of this ebook is a tightknit Jewish group and within the means of Shanna uncovering the thriller, the reader is launched to the tradition and beliefs which are typically misunderstood or utterly ignored. Because the story reaches its conclusion you discover you’ve gotten related with the characters and might perceive to an extent a number of the actions they took. Victoria Goldman has managed to create some really plausible characters and places the reader within the coronary heart of a group that’s grieving for thus many issues. I’m now wanting ahead to ebook 2 and catching up with Shanna Reagan to see the place her investigations take her subsequent.
In regards to the Creator
Victoria Goldman MSc. is a contract journalist and editor. She is a ebook & stationery addict, crochet novice and nature lover (particularly the native wild parakeets). She lives in Hertfordshire and is married with two sons.