Sunday, 7 February 2021

High Rise Mystery by Sharha Jackson

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A murder mystery for “younger readers” - it is an engaging whodunit, driven forward by dialogue, with the sisters Nik and Norva able to bounce their thoughts and ideas off one another.


I probably can’t really comment on whether their vernacular is authentic but it had a natural feel to it – whether that risks dating it to too specific a moment (along with some of the references to technology – will uploading something to YouTube be unforgivably old-fashioned in 5 years time?)


Although there is not a huge amount on description of place, the high rise estate setting is one your own imagination as able to take you to.

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