C'est magnifique! Stav Sherez never, ever disappoints...it's the fourth book I read by him, and the second in the Carrigan-Miller series, and wow...you don't see it coming, you really don't. Won't spoil it and leave you to discover what happens (we have the usual gruesome parts that we all have learnt to love in his books, and the mix with religion in the story which is peculiar for the way it is woven in), but will say that much that the cliffhanger we're left with makes me wish I could have the next book in the series right now on my bedside table to continue reading.
I guess I will have to be a bit patient there... ( )

My first Carrigan & Miller, and I've enjoyed meeting them.

Police procedural double-act, with credible, sympathetic, flawed characters following various leads towards suitably shocking if slightly less credible conclusion.

Sherez is ambitious: we have Eastern European drug barons, Peruvian politics of the 1970s, and the Catholic church at its most devious (though, thankfully, we are spared the by now traditional conspiracy theory). He is also, in places, a memorably good phrase-maker (though he is pleased enough with one or two of his best that he can't resist using them again).

Carrigan leads the case down some not entirely blind alleys, and everything does connect, though not always in the way he (or we) first thought. His mistakes - and his acknowledgement of them - help to flesh out his character and the murky world of morally grey indistinction in which he works.

Relationships between the characters, too, are handled with subtlety and maturity. Many times the reader is relieved that the author manages at the last moment to avoid the apparently imminent cliche. ( )

Second book in the Carrigan and Miller Series.
Having read the first in the series ( A Dark Redemption ) and having been mightily impressed with it despite some of its harrowing scenes, I approached this book with mixed feelings. I need not have worried, however, because the standard set in the first book is clearly maintained.
The death of ten nuns in a convent in London forms the basis of the investigation for Carrigan and Miller, but its connections involve Peru, Albania and a monastery in North Yorkshire. Nothing is quite what it seems to be, and I had no idea who the perpetrator(s) would turn out to be.
Sherez guides us skilfully through various leads that Carrigan and Miller come across, with a tremendous grasp of the English language, some of his descriptions being almost poetic – some of the best modern prose that I have read in a long time. His use of words is both challenging ( I would never have thought of using that word in that situation, but it works!) and intellectually satisfying.
If I am making the book out to be a difficult read, this is absolutely not the case. It is very well written, well-paced and has a surprising and somewhat disturbing conclusion that I never saw coming. His understanding of the workings of the Catholic Church adds to the expertise and research that he displays in this novel.

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Liberation theology comes to Bayswater. This is the second book in the Carrigan / Miller series of police procedural thrillers. The lead characters are developing well and the plotting is intricate and always interesting although the final twist I found a bit clunky. This is definitely worth as read. ( )

www.bostonbibliophile.com/2014/11/book-review-eleven-days-by-stav-sherez.html ( )