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Our two protagonists are in trouble. Michael 'Digger' Digson has arrested a fellow-officer for driving (and killing someone) while under the influence of alcohol and that doesn't sit well with some of his colleagues. Miss Stanislaus shot and killed her own personal Nemesis and faces prosecution. Then murders start to accumulate quickly. Are all these events connected? Can Digger and Miss Stanislaus save their careers (and lives)?
Almost immediately I felt myself drawn into the story and the Caribbean. It was like standing in the central nave of the Notre-Dame de Paris looking at the circular rose window on a cloudy day. And then, quite suddenly, the sun breaks through the clouds and sparkles through the stained multi-coloured glass of the rose window. That sort of feeling.
Jacob Ross clearly has a deep love for his native Granada, a Caribbean island that features as Camaho in the story. Poverty is endemic. Poverty begets crime, crime begets greed, and greed begets murder. This sequence of events attracts evil, and evil begets fear. Both strands circle around each other forming an invisible double helix. This is life and living on an island with an inept police force, where only a few officers have the will and backbone to try to make a difference.
Suffice to say that 'Black Rain Falling' is a superbly written mystery. Every sentence is a small work of art. Together they create an image that Jacob Ross is a true poet and not 'just' a writer of thrillers.
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