The second book to feature DI Natalie Wood, a middle-aged woman trying desperately to be a good wife, and mother, at the same time as leading a Major Investigation Team.
When the body of a woman is found brutally murdered in her bedroom suspicion is immediately placed on the husband.
The more the team look into him the more lies and untruths are uncovered but are they anything to do with the murder.
The victim was an entitled woman that thrived on playing people off against each other. The husband is an ex-con who has set up a gym in an underprivileged estate.
The investigation is set spinning in circles by the stories told by locals, and by the mixed messages they are receiving about the victim.
With the investigation going down one cul-de-sac after anther the team are getting nowhere. Then another woman is found dead in very similar circumstances and it becomes clear that it’s the same killer.
The investigation is still going nowhere quick until………you’ll have to read the book to find out.
This is a great story. The frustrations of the police are laid bare as they are sent on one false lead after another by people trying to protect their own back, or simply deciding they don’t want to help the Police.
The main character, Natalie, and her team are flat out. Carol Wyer writes about the affect their career has on their relationships better than any other writer at the moment.
She looks at the almost selfish attitude they have towards keeping the investigation going, usually at the cost of their nearest and dearest.
And the transient characters are equally as good
The first murder victim Charlotte is a woman that wants everything everybody else has, then once she’s got it, she gets bored and gets rid of it. The book could easily have been called Marmite Girl, because people in the book either love her or hate her.
Her Husband is a thug that makes it easy for the reader to want him to be guilty. The people he hangs out with are all rouges that think themselves above the law.
It’s not often that a Police Procedural is based around one murder, and although this one isn’t either, it very nearly is. And its brilliant. It allows the characters to be explored fully and develop. I have a feeling that some of them may make appearances in future books.
A great read and I can’t wait for book 3
Pages: 333
Publisher: Bookouture
Publishing date: 7thDecember 2018.
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