Book Review - Redline by Dave Rigby (Review by Clair Wright)
Redline is the second "Harry Vos Investigation". Set in Belgium, the novel begins with the discovery of a body - identity unknown - and takes us, and Vos, into the worlds of tattooing, nuclear waste and fracking. I caught up with author Dave Rigby to chat about the book, Belgium and the business of writing. What inspired you to write about environmental issues and shady land dealings? I’ve always had an interest in environmental issues and specific concerns about nuclear power and more recently, fracking. There’s been an increasing need for storage sites for nuclear waste, particularly with problems around reprocessing of nuclear fuel, the decommissioning of older power stations and recent proposals for building new ones. Likewise, there’s been a lot of interest from companies wishing to develop sites for fracking, another area of activity which has serious environmental implications. (Although fracking is not currently permitted in Belgium, there’s an a...