ShortBookandScribes #BookReview – The Negotiator by Brooke Robinson #BlogTour – Brief Guide and Scribes

It’s my cease on the weblog tour for The Negotiator by Brooke Robinson which was revealed by Harvill Secker on twentieth June 2024 in hardcover, eBook and audiobook. My because of the publishers for the assessment copy and to Tracy Fenton of Compulsive Readers for the place on the tour.

SHE’S MEANT TO SAVE LIVES. NOT DESTROY THEM.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF BLOCKBUSTER DEBUT THE INTERPRETER, COMES A PROPULSIVE, EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT THRILLER THAT ASKS: CAN YOU EVER FREE YOURSELF FROM YOUR PAST?

Former police officer Tia stop the Met years in the past when she failed her examination to develop into a negotiator, her dream job. However when a peaceable local weather protest at a London museum turns lethal, and one of many radicalised group members takes Tia and others hostage, she realises that is her likelihood to lastly show she has what it takes.

Solely not everybody will get out of the siege alive.

Three years later, Tia discovers that the surviving hostages are being harassed and threatened by an nameless particular person, main one in all them to take their very own life. Refusing to have one other dying on her conscience, Tia begins to research.

However Tia was a hostage that day too… and now she’s a goal.

For followers of Clare Waterproof coat’s Hostage, Adrian McKinty’s The Chain and Sunday Occasions bestseller Gillian McAllister.

I’ve been wanting ahead to studying The Negotiator since I learn Brooke Robinson’s first novel, The Interpreter, and I actually loved it. The Negotiator is the story of then and now – then, when Tia was caught in the course of a siege in a museum that Asher was concerned with, and now, when Asher has simply been launched from jail and Tia is requested to look into threats in opposition to a number of the hostages.

The day of the siege was significantly onerous for Tia as a result of she actually needed to develop into a police negotiator and had failed her exams, and this underpins the complete story with a give attention to what went incorrect that day and all the things that led as much as it.

I favored how this novel unfolded fairly step by step throughout the 2 timelines. The plotting is executed significantly effectively, giving simply sufficient to maneuver the story on with out giving an excessive amount of away. The characters are sympathetic and I felt I received to know them rather well. Tia’s causes for eager to develop into a negotiator and Asher’s motivation behind his half within the siege, plus his difficulties on launch and attempting to combine again right into a society that he doesn’t really feel aligned with, make for an absorbing storyline. While not a massively fast-paced thriller, it’s such a gripping learn, one which I actually received caught into each time I picked it up. I liked the ending too – hopeful and heartbreaking all on the similar time, with an excellent final line.

The Negotiator is one other glorious guide from Robinson. I hope she’s going to write extra of this kind of emotive and thought-provoking learn.

Brooke Robinson grew up in Sydney and as a playwright, has had quite a few performs commissioned and produced in her native Australia. Within the UK, her work has been proven on the Previous Vic theatre and London’s Vault Competition. She studied drama at RADA (The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts) and Metropolis, College of London. The Interpreter was her debut novel.