‘Sympathy Between Humans’
by Jodi Compton
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 13 March 2006.
ISBN 0-340-82871-4

Sarah Pribek is a detective working the streets of Minneapolis who is suspected of a murder she didn’t commit. Determined to protect the identity of the true perpetrator, when the stalled investigation is given fresh impetus by a tenacious new DA, she weaves a complex web of lies and evasions that threaten to entrap her. In the meantime, she is engrossed in her usual caseload of missing persons, vice, and violent death.

Sympathy Between Humans has all the detail and tension of a police procedural with the added frisson of a central character who doesn’t hesitate to make moral decisions in the chasm between the law and justice - and for very justifiable reasons. At the core of this book are the lengths to which individuals will go to risk themselves for the sake of others. Jodi Compton draws her characters with depth and imbues them with a humanity that makes them empathetic and their actions very believable. There are plenty of twists and turns as the story unfolds, and one or two shocking surprises along the way. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and highly recommend it.

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Ruth Wade

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