Whole Life Sentence by Lynda La Plante

Detective Inspector Jane Tennison is a dedicated and intuitive detective. She was transferred from Bromley on promotion to DCI and requested a posting to the AMIT (Area Major Incident Teams) team. AMIT is one of the toughest units in the Met and handles serious major crimes. 

Her first case is to investigate a cold case of a missing college student from five years ago. That was in 1986. Brittany Hall was 17 years old when her mother reported her missing. This means the whole plot is set in the early 1990s. However, the author is trying to keep it up-to-date, I guess. 😬

Three boys from the same college were the last people to see Brittany. The information and statements were gathered, and Jane had to prove they were involved in Brittany's disappearance. It's so easy to jump to a conclusion without a second thought. 

Jane knew her boss was giving her an unsolvable cold case to waste her time and keep her out of sight. She feels undervalued and patronized by her male colleagues. But that only made her more determined to find out what happened to Brittany. She had proven she deserved to be on the AMIT. 

It's a slow-paced story, not a groundbreaking piece. The ending was too rushed and not impactful enough when it reached the part where the crime unfolds. Jane survives her ordeal, though. This is the final book in the Tennison series and could be read as a standalone thriller.

Pusat Terapi Al-Nur

Kalau balik kampung memang inilah tempat yang mesti pergi. Mana nak cari tempat urut yang murah lagikan?

Urat yang tersimpul rapi memang terus jadi lega. Aku rasa macam nak tercabut rambut tadi punyalah kuat dia urut kepala tu kan. 

Selain dari tu ada juga servis lain yang diaorang buat seperti bekam, akupuntur, bunyi²kan badan/ cracking knuckles pun boleh. Pekerja²nya pun baik. 

*Ini bukan iklan berbayar

 

Dialog

Seperti yang kita belajar di sekolah dulu kalau nak buat dialog, mesti guna perenggan baru bersama dengan pembuka dan penutup kata. 

Tapi bila baca buku bahasa Inggeris semua tu tak penting dah. Ada berbagai jenis cara yang boleh dikategorikan sebagai dialog. Macam contoh di atas, penulis guna dash sahaja. Sebelum ni aku pernah baca, mereka guna italic tanpa perenggan baru. Contoh:

Bukan saya tak suka dia bang. Cuma dia tu suka sangat mengungkit hal-hal lama saya. Luahan Ahmad kepada abangnya.

Pada aku, aku ok je. Semakin banyak kita membaca, banyak jenis karya yang boleh kita pelajari. Tapi aku tak rasa editor di Malaysia bersetuju dengan dua cara di atas.