Published by Michael Joseph,
18 May 2017.
ISBN: 978-0-718-18585-1(HB)
18 May 2017.
ISBN: 978-0-718-18585-1(HB)
Driving to work in Southampton Sonia Smalling is
tricked into stopping and is then shot and killed. Helen Grace a police officer
recently freed from prison after being wrongly convicted of murder, comes
across Sonia's body in the road.
Helen wonders why she was killed as
her credit cards and cash were not touched, although her car had been taken. On
interviewing Sonia's husband Helen gets no nearer the truth. She does however
discover that she was a probation officer and in spite of the fact that she is
assured by Sonia's colleagues that all the youngsters she dealt with loved her,
Helen wonders if it could be someone with a grievance against her.
Alerts are put out for the car and
it is found parked by a shopping precinct. This time a pharmacist is murdered
and drugs and cash are taken. Helen and armed response are rushed to the scene
but the perpetrators escape out the back. Thanks to a witness Helen and the
team manage to identify the culprits but are still puzzled as to what is
driving them. Do the murders have any connection to each other and how many
more are likely to be committed? Are they random or is there a deeper motive?
At the same time, a journalist
Emelia Garanita starts to make her own enquiries and keeps coming across images
of a serpent eating its own tail. What can be the significance of these?
It becomes a race against time for
Helen and her officers to get one step ahead and prevent any more murders, a
seemingly impossible task.
What a page turner! This really is
a book that kept me on the edge of my seat. I like the way the author has used
very short chapters especially as all the action takes place in one day, it
seems to add to the urgency of solving the crimes and staying ahead of the
murderers.
Highly recommended, but a warning,
don't start reading this book at night, you wont be able to put it down!
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Reviewer: Tricia Chappell
Tricia Chappell. I have a
great love of books and reading, especially crime and thrillers. I play the
occasional game of golf (when I am not reading). My great love is
cruising especially to far flung places, when there are long days at sea for
plenty more reading! I am really enjoying reviewing books and have found lots
of great new authors.
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