Reviews for One Under

The average rating for One Under based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-09-18 00:00:00 Jason Mosiman Well enough written; two parallel cases of men dead or missing, presumed dead. In one case the police haul in the usual suspects in Portsmouth, even though they are pretty sure it isn't the drug dealer's style. A man was left chained to a train track in a tunnel, and the parallels are also clear to the method of killing discovered in the second case. Joe Faraday is more clean cut and I was sad to read about him knowing what happens in a later book. I still don't believe that incident, given how much this man enjoys birdwatching and his own company. Paul Winter is an older and less politically correct copper, I don't much like him but there is an equivalent in just about every police series. He has recently survived a brain tumour operation. Here he rather stupidly denies having talked with Baz McKenzie the drug lord when half the town saw them sit down in a restaurant. Again, I know where this leads, and could see the set up coming. Winter spends more time working alone than seems feasible but we do learn about the co-operation given by phone firms. Not for the squeamish, but we know the difference between police procedurals and village cosies. I found the many names get thrown at us rather as labels and if you put the book down for a few days you will be confused as to which character is part of which investigation and why. I presume the author works with name cards on a corkboard, or similar, as he writes. This is an unbiased review.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-02-27 00:00:00 Harvey Singer Enjoyed this entry in the series set in Portsmouth, UK. DI Joe Faraday is back, investigating a possible suicide of a man on the railroad tracks in a tunnel. Further investigation indicates that he had to have had help...and thus, more likely a murder. But by whom? There was not really enough left of the person for ID by typical means--they can only hope to match missing persons' DNA to the bits left. Faraday gets DC Paul Winter in on the Intelligence portion of the investigation, trying to figure out who he can be. One of the other missing persons he looks into piques Winter's interest and he ends up going off in another direction that leads to a whole new major investigation. The appeal of the series aside from the strong writing, is that there is just the right mixture of the main characters' personal lives with police procedure and detective work. The mix of action is perfectly balanced with introspection and thought. It's one of those books that once started, tends to keep me up too late reading "one more chapter."