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    Taking Pity
    Taking Pity
    Taking Pity
    Audiobook11 hours

    Taking Pity

    Written by David Mark

    Narrated by John Curless

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The New York Times hails David Mark's police thrillers as "in the honorable tradition of Joseph Wambaugh and Ed McBain." In Taking Pity, Detective Sergeant aector McAvoy returns for another darkly enthralling installment of this internationally acclaimed series.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJul 7, 2015
    ISBN9781490684420
    Taking Pity
    Author

    David Mark

    David Mark spent seven years as crime reporter for the Yorkshire Post and now writes full-time. The first novel in his DS McAvoy series, Dark Winter, was selected for the Harrogate New Blood panel (where he was Reader in Residence) and was a Richard & Judy pick and a Sunday Times bestseller. Dead Pretty was longlisted for the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger in 2016. He lives in Northumberland with his family.

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    • 4/5
      After reading "Original Skin", the second book in this series featuring Detective Sargeant Aector McAvoy of the Hull police, I didn't really expect to read any more of the series. I found McAvoy to be a dull, colorless, placid, family man. His wife is a Traveler who seemed reckless and a poor match for a police officer. In the new book, his wife and baby daughter have been injured in an explosion (I assume in the third book) and are now in hiding from organized crime members. With most of his family now gone, this automatically gives McAvoy a darker side but he is still trusting and upright to a ridiculous degree and is the least interesting character in the book. He is the Dudley Do Right of the Hull police. He is now out on sick leave recovering from his grief and from injuries suffered while apprehending a serial killer. He's living in a motel with his five year old son Fin. The Home Office wants him to investigate a fifty year old case in which a young man may have been wrongfully charged with murder and institutionalized. This crime is linked, in a very complicated fashion, with a lot more crimes and criminals. McAvoy's boss, Detective Superintendent Trisha Pharaoh, is investigating these other crimes and she is much more intriguing than McAvoy and so are some of the criminals. I'm glad I gave the author another chance, because overall I was entertained by this book and liked it a lot more than I liked book 2. The plot was convoluted, involving a lot of violence and corruption, but for the most part all of the threads had come together by the ending (which sets you up for the next book).Judging by the 2 books I've read, the author does have a few tendencies that get on my nerves. He writes in the present tense which grates on me. He is overly fascinated by ghastly, ghoulish, sadistic crimes and links sex and violence too often. Finally, McAvoy keeps taking his children with him when he investigates crime scenes. Really, five year old Fin has more sense than his father. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher.
    • 4/5
      So many characters with so many secrets and deviant behaviors makes this 4th installment of the D.S. McAvoy British police procedural novels a winner. I did have some trouble sorting out the baddies from the goodies mid-read, but the wrap up at the end was worth the trouble. The murder that took place in the 1960's was just a backdrop for the other crimes uncovered in the organized crime life of Hull in Yorkshire. McAvoy is pressed back into service from sick leave by his supervisor to investigate a decades-old serial murder. The gent that was institutionalized for the crimes may be granted a trial after all these years. While at the church yard where the murders supposedly took place, McAvoy stumbles upon a gritty, dark secret. Warning! There is violence and descriptions of unspeakable torture, so not for the faint of heart. My thanks to the author and Penguin's First to Read program for a complimentary copy.
    • 4/5
      The first thing I want to say is that to really enjoy this book you should read the ones before it to really know what is happening in this story. This was the first book I have read by David Mark and it will not be my last. I did have a little trouble in the beginning not knowing all the characters and what had previously happened but I soon did catch up enough and really enjoyed the story and the characters. There were a lot of twists and turns. I really loved Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy and his son. This made me cry in many places and get really worried what was going to happen to everyone. I look forward to reading the next installment and may need to go back and read more of his others. I received an ebook copy from FirsttoRead for a fair and honest opinion.