THE INTRUSIONS

BY STAV SHEREZ FABER & FABER OUT NOW

By JAKE KERRIDGE

Stav Sherez’s DI Jack Carrigan is one of those fictional cops so dogged by bad luck that one imagines them followed around by their own personal black rainclouds, like Calamity James in The Beano. In this third outing (it follows A Dark Redemption and Eleven Days) for Carrigan and his spunky sidekick DS Geneva Miller, the detective’s enemies are engaged in a devious campaign to get him chucked off the force, he’s having to work alongside his dead wife’s ex-lover, and his mother is dying in hospital. As always, Sherez laces his thrills and spills with a hefty dose of ontological reflection: “In the room there was just him and his mother and the circling array of machines that did what once only God and prayers could.” Sherez really is…

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