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Turn a Blind Eye
by Vicky Newham
I received a free copy of this book from HQ Stories/Harper Collins exchange for an honest review.
DI Maya Rahman is still dealing with the death of her beloved brother when she’s called in to investigate the suspicious death of the head teacher of her old school. When a second body shows up, it’s obvious they are connected, and they need to find the killer before it’s too late for the next person on the list.
Turn a Blind Eye was a really quick read which was great because it was what I wanted, and was lovely for a day out enjoying the sun. This is going to be an ongoing detective series following Maya Rahman so we immediately get a lot of glimpses into her personal life from the prologue where she is attending her brother’s burial (one we could have skipped in my opinion as I don’t think it added anything).
This book is not own voices but really represents how multi-cultural the UK, and particularly London is, and it contained a huge amount of characters of colours with different backgrounds and belief systems. Many of these beliefs come into play in the novel from arranged marriages, Muslim clothing, societal expectations within different cultures and religions, and then we also see a lot of sexism and misogyny - some of it stemming from archaic cultural beliefs - aimed at Rahman and other women in the book. There are characters in this book that definitely drove me mad because of how they acted to Rahman but also just in general like Asad Farnam who was just a horrible person and shouldn’t have been allowed anywhere near children, or people, in general.
There are a lot of POVs in this book - we have Maya’s chapters, her assisting detective Dan and then we also saw chapters in the POV of a teacher called Steve who found the original body. While I liked Steve, I don’t think his chapters were altogether necessary bar the first one. It may have even heightened the suspense if we didn’t have some of his chapters and suspected him as the killer.
I definitely didn’t guess who the killer was but this book had such a large cast of characters, it was always going to be a hard one but that’s a good thing. I will most likely pick up the next book in this series to follow along with Rahman, and see what she has to investigate next.
DI Maya Rahman is still dealing with the death of her beloved brother when she’s called in to investigate the suspicious death of the head teacher of her old school. When a second body shows up, it’s obvious they are connected, and they need to find the killer before it’s too late for the next person on the list.
Turn a Blind Eye was a really quick read which was great because it was what I wanted, and was lovely for a day out enjoying the sun. This is going to be an ongoing detective series following Maya Rahman so we immediately get a lot of glimpses into her personal life from the prologue where she is attending her brother’s burial (one we could have skipped in my opinion as I don’t think it added anything).
This book is not own voices but really represents how multi-cultural the UK, and particularly London is, and it contained a huge amount of characters of colours with different backgrounds and belief systems. Many of these beliefs come into play in the novel from arranged marriages, Muslim clothing, societal expectations within different cultures and religions, and then we also see a lot of sexism and misogyny - some of it stemming from archaic cultural beliefs - aimed at Rahman and other women in the book. There are characters in this book that definitely drove me mad because of how they acted to Rahman but also just in general like Asad Farnam who was just a horrible person and shouldn’t have been allowed anywhere near children, or people, in general.
There are a lot of POVs in this book - we have Maya’s chapters, her assisting detective Dan and then we also saw chapters in the POV of a teacher called Steve who found the original body. While I liked Steve, I don’t think his chapters were altogether necessary bar the first one. It may have even heightened the suspense if we didn’t have some of his chapters and suspected him as the killer.
I definitely didn’t guess who the killer was but this book had such a large cast of characters, it was always going to be a hard one but that’s a good thing. I will most likely pick up the next book in this series to follow along with Rahman, and see what she has to investigate next.