review written & read live on the bookshow by Brian Lowen 16th Oct 2014
I bought this book
from the charity shop but when I got home I realised that I had read another
book by this author - In The Dark – which I never finished as I could not get
into it.
However, I
persevered, and found it was quite good.
It is one of a
series featuring Detective Inspector Tom Thorne, who has now been demoted to
Detective Sergeant for some indiscretion he committed – what it was we are not
told but I assume it was in a previous book in the series.
Tom is convinced
that a series of suicides committed in the previous weeks are somehow linked
because all the victims were perfectly happy and had no reason to kill
themselves.
He starts picking
up one or two clues and is convinced there is a serial killer at large, possibly seeking revenge for something that happened years
ago. He tries to convince his bosses that the suicides should be investigated
further, but they don’t agree with him, so he sets out to track the killer down
on his own, getting limited help from some of his friendly colleagues.
He has recently
started a relationship with Helen who works in Social Services and has a young
son, Alfie. Tom’s obsession with this case and the extra hours he puts in
investigating it causes some friction with their budding affair.
When he has
amassed quite a lot of information leading to the killer he still goes on
alone, rather than presenting the facts to his superiors, presumably to try and
get promotion to his former rank of Inspector.
Whilst I enjoyed
the story, I found the telling of it rather disjointed and sometimes hard to
follow. The ending was rather left up in the air – presumably to try to get you
to buy the next book in the series I expect, but I won’t be tempted.
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