Linda Davies: Something Wild

By MICHELE HEWITSON

"She felt disturbed as she drove, the tendrils of trauma curled around her heart."

And, "How many times did death have to stalk her before it claimed her?

"She had survived so far, in a life strewn with bodies."

Golly. All this before page four. It's what you might call the laying-it-on-with-a-trowel approach to thriller writing.

Sarah Jensen, the hot shot city trader turned, ludicrously, MI6 agent and first met in Davies' Nest of Vipers, is back. This time she's hiding something in the attic: her baby son.

Skint, although she's earned millions of bucks in the past, she has to squeeze herself into her pre-pregnancy city suits and get out there and hussle for work. She takes a freelance job (in-between breastfeeding and worrying that her brains have turned to baby food) investigating a client for an investment bank. At the first board meeting the client walks into the room and turns out to be the father of her child. It's going to be a struggle to pull this one off. It sure is.

Get this: "Something Wild is the story of a woman who was once tough, but is now vulnerable, her skills blunted by motherhood. A woman at bay." Sometimes the blurb really does say it all.

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