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Falling into Crime Kindle Edition

by Penny Grubb (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Falling into Crime is a trilogy comprising the first three Annie Raymond Private Investigator books by Penny Grubb.

The re-edited books chart Annie’s fledging steps into a profession that has been her goal since her earliest memories; taking her through the struggles of her first proper job to her emergence as an experienced investigator who is unexpectedly brought face to face with her motives for pursuing this course in life. A fundamental re-evaluation is long overdue, but the push comes from an unwelcome source that threatens far more than her peace of mind.

The trilogy includes the winner of the 2004 international Crime Writers’ Association Dagger, The Doll Makers, along with John Creasy Dagger nominee, Like False Money, and The Jawbone Gang.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07TBX5BGG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fantastic Books Publishing (July 14, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 14, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2.9 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 798 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1912053934
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Penny Grubb

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Penny is a scientist, a crime writer and an academic who worked in Engineering, Social Science and Health Health Sciences. She was Chair of the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society for six years to 2013.

A writer all her life, she penned her first story at age 4 and won her first writing competition at age 9. In 2004 she won the Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger for her book, The Doll Makers. Her crime novels are published in the UK, USA and Canada.

She has worked in a variety of jobs, having been on the inside of pathology labs, operating theatres and medical schools across Europe. Home is with her husband and a transient population of family members and animals in an old farmhouse in a small East Yorkshire village.

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  • carl brookins
    5.0 out of 5 stars Three excellent novels explore PI Annie Raymond's PI life
    Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2020
    Here’s a fascinating trilogy of stories that follow the burgeoning career of a fledgling private investigator in the United Kingdom. Annie Raymond is a sharp young girl out of a small town not far from the Scottish border, who looks at her contemporaries and yearns for something more. Now she’s in Hull, a small city just south of Scotland on the Eastern side of the U.K.
    Her dad is a local cop and Annie’s desire is to have a career as a private investigator. She’s been recruited to a job in a tiny agency in Hull. It will be her introduction to life as an investigator and her training ground. This story is called “Like False Money,” the second which takes place several years later with a different cast of characters is called “The Jawbone Gang,” and the third, set in a later time after Annie has moved to a larger agency in London, is called “The Doll Makers.”
    Even though the three stories cover a span of many years, nearly all the action takes place in and around Hull. Annie Raymond interacts in meaningful and logical ways with youngsters, adults and even some on the verge of conclusions to their long lives. The crimes she investigates and solves are varied and unusual. There’s a lot of description of people and places in this book, all adeptly handled such that it adds to tension and the narrative pace. Never will you find characters misplaced or misread, the writing is strong, consistent and enthralling.
    Annie Raymond is a fine investigator, and an excellent protagonist. There are additional volumes to her life and career and her stories are attractive and addicting. I have no hesitation strongly recommending Annie Raymond as a private investigator readers will enjoy coming to know and follow.
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  • Stuart Aken
    5.0 out of 5 stars Tripple the Tension, Three Times the Thrill.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 19, 2020
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    This collection of three crime novels puts together the first three books in the Annie Raymond series: Like False Money, The Doll Makers, and The Jawbone Gang. For those unfamiliar with the writing of Penny Grubb, I will simply say, ‘You’re missing out on some very good crime writing.’
    Having read all three of these books when they were first published, I was intrigued to see what the author had done in presenting them as a set. The slight additional editing and fillers have enhanced the experience of reading them again. I was every bit as engaged the second time as I was the first, in spite of knowing what happened in each story.
    I feel I can best complete this review by adding here the separate reviews I wrote for those first reads, since the words I then wrote apply equally today.

    Like False Money:
    Some crime novels are intriguing puzzles begging for solution, some are sensitive character studies describing the relationship of investigator to crime and perpetrator, and some are fast-paced action stories packed with incident and threat. Penny Grubb, in Like False Money, has blended all three in one fascinating novel.
    The heroine, Annie, a woman with balls, takes on her first cases with few expectations, learning she has been employed more as nursemaid than private investigator. The complex web of relationships surrounding the agency weave through the story, forming obstacles that Annie could do without as her investigations reveal convolutions she only suspects at first.
    Penny lays plenty of traps for her heroine and for the reader, feeding the fascination. Only at the denouement does all become clear, exactly as it should in such fiction. But this is no Poirot-like disposition. Annie has to work out the twists and turns and make sense of the misinformation, lies, half-truths and tricks as she wrestles to save her life.
    The victims, witnesses, clients, agency staff and police contacts are all very real people. Some you would meet on the streets of the city of Hull every day, some in the villages and on the coast of rural East Yorkshire, some you would hope never to meet face to face. The locations are as much members of the cast as the people in this story of self-discovery, murder, deception and misunderstanding.
    Penny supplies the reader with facts, theories and puzzles, slowly revealing the plot with clues for those astute enough to spot them. But the solutions to the interwoven mysteries are unexpected and, in the case of the murder, breath-taking and ultimately inevitable.
    The novel starts with gentle intrigues, in-fighting and political games played by those with hidden motives, but develops into a cliff-hanger, almost literally.
    Contrasting the urban environment with the rural, Penny explores motives, sub-texts and ambitions to show that location need not be the formative influence it is often considered. Here, it is the people and their personalities that direct cause and effect, acting out their parts sometimes despite their whereabouts. This novel surprises, entertains, scares and satisfies in equal measure and I heartily recommend it.

    The Doll Makers:
    I met the wonderfully idiosyncratic heroine, Annie Raymond, in Penny’s first detective novel, Like False Money, and enjoyed her doubts, courage and intelligence there. In The Doll Makers, Annie travels from her new post in London to visit her father in Scotland, and Penny Grubb highlights the contrasts between the noise and claustrophobia of the capital and the space and relative peace of a small Scottish loch-side town.
    The story holds the reader’s interest from the start and keeps a tight grip on it to the last word. Penny has a way of getting inside the heads and hearts of her characters to bring them to life. Even her villains carry characteristics that make the reader care what happens. But it is Annie who we really empathise with, despite her faults, irritabilities, occasional snap judgements and chaotic domestic lifestyle, or maybe because of these. Her quick wits, intelligence, bravery and determination drive the story, with its multiple threads, racing us from chapter to chapter, anxious to know what happens next and eager to identify the real villains amongst the panoply of potential candidates.
    There are surprises, shocks and moments of sudden illumination in the twists and turns of the plot so that it becomes difficult to put the book down. I was forced by circumstances to read the book in two sessions but would have read from beginning to end without interruption had it been possible. Such is the developing pace of the story that the reader becomes emotionally engaged in the ever more complex puzzles that lead Annie into great peril.
    The reader is given clues denied the detective and this makes for tension as we see her stepping toward dangers we know of but to which she is blind. Clues are scattered throughout the narrative for the reader to solve the puzzles, but the solution is not easy and I was surprised by the denouement, though it was, in the end, the only possible outcome.
    Penny handles scenes of danger particularly well, injecting feelings of fear, anxiety and doubt into the story so that the reader is drawn into the created world. Her meticulous research takes us inside real buildings with Annie, along real streets and into real woodland with her, to perilous drops where we hold our breath and into peaceful glades, where we rest for a while as she ruminates.
    The Doll Makers is not simply a damned good read, it is an experience shared with the indomitable Annie as she moves through curiosity, incomprehension, disappointment, betrayal and growing enlightenment to a conclusion that is scary, intense and inevitable. If you enjoy your crime spiced with a mixture of gritty realism, humour, human failings and intelligence, this is definitely a book for you. I don’t read much crime fiction, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book and heartily recommend it.

    The Jawbone Gang:
    The Jawbone Gang, the third crime novel by Penny Grubb to feature her P.I, Annie, brings more insight into the complex character of this Scot, working in the city of Hull and the surrounding East Riding of Yorkshire for this story. Penny’s familiarity with the area and some of its less well-known parts, adds detail to the text, as she has her sleuth investigate, work and relax.
    The plot of the novel takes on unexpected twists, with secondary characters and events weaving complexity into the story.
    Penny deals with real life issues in her detective series, eschewing gloss and glamour to give her readers insights into experiences closer to home. Her descriptions entertain with their detailed vibrancy and her characters leave the page as real people. She builds tension convincingly and the air of menace that prevails on her protagonist at key moments is skilfully contrasted with more basic daily worries assailing Annie as she attempts to modernise the agency despite the complacency and indolence of her bosses.
    The denouement is expertly handled, with the near chaos of a local event acting as both background and pivot to a conclusion that has the reader turning the pages to discover the outcome.
    If you haven’t read any of Penny’s crime novels, I urge you to do so. And, if you have, you’ll find The Jawbone Gang as intriguing and enthralling as the other two.
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  • Mark Henderson
    5.0 out of 5 stars If you start reading this book, forget all other demands on your time!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 25, 2020
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    Three engaging crime stories in one volume... All these novels are very well-written and hard to put down. The writing is clear and well-paced, the protagonist (Annie Richmond, private investigator) is a credible character blessed with intuition, the settings are presented vividly and with affection, and the twists and turns of the plots are as engaging as you can hope to find in a crime thriller. There are moments (such as the ladder-climbing scene on the tower block in the first story) that actually made my palms sweat as I was reading, and the denouements are gratifyingly dramatic. One particularly engaging feature of these stories is that we know from the outset that Annie's childhood was trauma-burdened, but we don't learn why until the third book; and by then we like Annie so much that the gradual revelation is genuinely shocking. These are books to read and - something I seldom say of novels - to re-read. Highly recommended.
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  • Linda Acaster
    5.0 out of 5 stars Three Riveting Realistic Reads
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 10, 2019
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    There’s no feeling of separation here as there can be with so many Crime box sets, but a definite timeline. The first three novels in the Annie Raymond series see her grow from being desperate to do well, to outstripping her somewhat laid-back mentors, to emerging as a full professional working in the true, strictly-regulated world in which PIs operate in the UK. The gritty realism drew me in, and the depth of characterisation slowly being pared away to reveal motivation and fears kept me reading in a kind of fascinated enthralment.

    The crimes tend to start slow-burn and are intricately woven, with seeming trivialities taking on major importance as plot-threads tighten. These are not stories to read when tired as all faculties need to be primed. They are certainly worth their Awards, and if you are looking for a new Crime series, not quite hard-boiled, not quite noir, I highly recommend them.
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  • Dee
    5.0 out of 5 stars What a good idea to create a trilogy!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 9, 2020
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    I was so pleased when I got to the end of the first book - Like False Money - that I could go straight into the next one because Annie Raymond had really grabbed me! And now, having finished all three of the books, I want to read more of the Annie Raymond story, because it keeps growing as you read more of her cases, it’s like another book running alongside all the others. Penny Grubb manages to write real WhoDunnits, and you are kept guessing to the very end. She is also brilliant at building tension into the plots that has your heart banging in your chest as you read faster and faster. I had to re-read several bits over to satisfy myself of the action! I’m not sure how many Annie Raymond books there are but I’m going to look for another one now.
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  • Pauline White
    5.0 out of 5 stars Superb crime fiction with fascinating clues
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 6, 2020
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    Loved this series, especially on a second reading. The writing is so visual, you can almost see Hull and then the other locations take shape. The characters are concisely and cleverly described but best of all is our heroine, a very non gendered heroine, who can fix cars, sneak into buildings, uses muscular metaphors and finds it difficult to commit in her love relationships. She's so independent, she's inspiring. You watch her grow from a rookie to a pro, almost every step of her intuition and psychological knowledge is detailed, so you feel as though you are becoming a a PI too.

    I couldn't wait to finish the last book as it was so exciting and scary, but was the first one to introduce us to Annie's home life and background, giving us insight into her character. Wonderful.
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