Old Dogs

If you enjoy a good read with humour, believable characters and plot then this is the book for you.

The plot is both tight and unpredictable which made reading this a real charm. As for Donna Moore’s characters well I am sure we all know them, maybe someone you work with or a neighbour down the street, they are so well characterised that you love and hate them all at various times through the book. None of them behaves in any kind of predictable way, which is what kept this book a real page-turner.

In its simplest form, this book is all about a robbery. The local museum has the chance to display two gold Shih Tzu dogs. With four different groups of people all eager to get their hands on the dogs this becomes one of the busiest museums in Glasgow.

That is the only simple thing about this book, layered with wonderful motives: greed, anger, revenge, desire, and stupidity. As I became more involved with each character, I found myself rooting for each of them to succeed, which was never going to be the outcome. The humour in this book is natural and comes from the situation, there is nothing forced about it and the laughs creep up on you without you seeing them coming.

This book is going to be a huge hit with crime fans and will make waves in the crime-writing world. Something that reads this effortlessly
has had a huge amount of work and creativity put into it and Donna Moore deserves acknowledgment as a brilliant writer.