Published
by Quercus, 15 January 2015.
ISBN: 978-1-84916-339-2
After a heavy
night’s drinking which ended in bed with a woman he had just met, DI Mark
Tartaglia is awakened by Constable Nick
Minderedes banging on his door. Struggling
to get himself together as they speed away, Tartaglia enquires as to their
destination. “The hotel Dillon in London’s
West End, a woman has been found dead in a hotel room”. Tartaglia groans
silently, he only left there a few hours ago.
Although,
he quickly establishes that the dead woman is not the same woman he spend the
night with, his relief is short-lived when he realises that he knows the dead
girl.
His
investigation brings a former member of his team, Sam Donovan back into his
life.
As
he absorbs the fact that someone he knew has been murdered, he receives the DNA
results of a homeless man found dead in a burnt out car. But the results are far from straightforward
as the corpse has been assembled from the body parts of four different people.
Handling
two murders takes some juggling and soon Tartaglia is under pressure from all
sides to catch the jigsaw killer before he strikes again.
This
is a page-turner. With the emotional murder hunt for the killer of someone he
knew to the macabre but engrossing search for a serial killer for which
initially they have no clues, just a desperate need to identify the individual
body parts in the hope that they can find some connection. With great characterisation both
investigations are fascinating reading,.
I
have enjoyed all the earlier books in this series, and heartily recommend this
one.
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Reviewer: Lizzie
Hayes
Elena Forbes was born in London, and grew up in London in a
family of writers and actors. She attended the University of Bristol. The
protagonist of her novels so far is Detective Inspector Mark Tartaglia of the
Barnes Murder Squad.
She
still lives central London – a city she loves. Place is very important to her
in terms of her writing and sets her novels in and around London as it offers a
wealth of character, variety and history, which never ceases to inspire.
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