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Title: Unsafe Convictions by Alison Taylor, Steve Hodson ISBN: 0-7540-0558-5 Publisher: Chivers Audio Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 10 List Price(USD): $84.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: A long wait for nothing
Comment: Alison Taylor (aka Alison G. Taylor) is in the top three of my favorite mystery writers, but like so many of them, the quality of her writing drops off sharply in this book. In Simeon's Bride, I felt as though I were there-inside the book. In Unsafe Convictions, I wished I were anywhere else and wound up just thumbing through the final chapters, not really caring what happened or who did it. The book is very wordy, and other than the initial fire, totally without action. The graphic description of the fire victim is not necessary to the plot and just wastes pages. The characters are not fleshed out, as they were so very well in her other novels. McKenna is disappointingly wooden and emotionless, a true departure from the other novels. I was hoping we would be given more insights into his life and coping with his divorce, as well as Janet's coming to terms with her abortion. We aren't given much resolution. It's a "whodunnit" and that's about all.

Rating: 4
Summary: The Dark Corners of the the Human Heart
Comment: I went to a bit of trouble to get this book. As far as I know, it has never been released in the US which is a dead shame, because Alison Taylor writes the type of hard edged detective stories that there are not enough of in the US.

First, this is not her best book. The one I enjoyed the most was Simeon's Bride.

Second, I enjoyed this book immensely.

Dominated by the scenery of the moors north of Manchester, the same scenery that supposedly inspired Ian Brady and Myra Hindley to murder, the small village of Haughton is rocked when the body of young woman is found in her burning house. Her brutally abusive ex-husband is convicted of the murder and sent to prison. Then evidence appears that does not just suggest that her husband was innocent, but which implicates the police in a frame up of the convicted man.

Michael Mckenna and his group and brought in to investigate the police who are implicated in this miscarriage of justice. But was it a miscarriage? From the reporter who is more interested in selling papers than relating the truth, to the town's reformed bad girl who just wants to put her past behind her to the charismatic, handsome priest who is a major witness, the characters are riveting. The author has been a social worker and her knowledge of the dark corners of human society is obvious here.

The focus in this story is not so much on McKenna and his group who mainly act as a catalyst, but on the inhabitants of Haughton and the pain they inflict on one another and themselves.