Kingfisher
Vulture and Kingfisher are the latest adventures of Brighton DC and top-class runner Caz Flood who is surely one of the best female characters to be penned by a male writer.
Vulture sees Caz investigating a series of sexual assaults on female athletes while Kingfisher is focussed on the mysterious disappearance and reappearance of another female runner.
Keegan is an excellent writer and, as a top-thirty veteran runner, he obviously knows the athletics business and can make it interesting even to those who get puffed taking the dog for a walk.
Plots and sub-plots are excellently paced. After Kingfisher, the bridges of Brighton will never appear the same. However, a word of caution. These two titles are best appreciated if you have first read Cuckoo, Caz’s first adventure, which sets the scene for much of what happens thereafter.
This is a series I can see TV producers fighting for.
SHOTS in the DARK (Crime Magazine)
Keegan neatly weaves together his themes of sexual harassment, the ‘no means no’ debate and the ambiguous area surrounding accusations of date-rape. As a male author, he was stepping into a minefield here, but he seems to have pulled it off, producing a thoroughly entertaining crime novel well worth a second reading for its deeper comments on the (sex) games people play.
The Hype Report
Keegan writes with wit and energy; Caz is a lively, sympathetic and believable character. It all adds up to an exceedingly good detective story.
London Evening Standard
The final act is violently successful with a well-managed twist in the tail. Keegan still rates as one of the brightest recent recruits to crime fiction.
Birmingham Mail
One notch in realism above the average female investigator
Time Out
Caz Flood is the liveliest new detective to have appeared for years.
Birmingham Mail
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