This is the second book in the DS Regan Carter series, and as brilliant as it is, it come with a but…….you have to read book 1 A Random Kill first.
It’s not often I say a book can’t be read as a standalone but this really does feel like a continuation of the last, and without reading Random Kill you would be thoroughly confused.
That said, this is a fantastic story. Carter has not only annoyed a deranged gang leader, Bradshaw, she has identified his mole in the Police, or at least one of them.
So with Bradshaw still missing a significant drug package, and a good few thousand pounds, he is really miffed with Carter.
His crew has a loose cannon that’s too unpredictable, unreliable, and utterly violent, who is fixated on Carter. So the best thing Bradshaw can do is set him out to get her and fix his biggest problem.
Meanwhile Bradshaw has come up with a plan to get rich quick, the way he does it is not original, but the scale of the effect it has is massive, and also totally realistic and believable.
Carter is heading-up one avenue of the investigation, whilst her boss starts looking at the person Carter identified as the leak.
What follows is an intriguing story. Carter is out for Bradshaw. Bradshaw knows this and sets psycho Eric after her.
However Eric proves to be a burden and Bradshaw decides he’s too much of a risk and sets him up to fail.
The dance that follows is as good as anything on Strictly.
The suspense contained in the chapters is palpable. At times I had to tell myself to breath
The end of the book, just like the first, leaves the door, not only wide open, but knocked off its hinges, for the continuation in book three.
I really wish I hadn’t found this series until it was complete. I only had a couple of weeks wait between finishing A Random Kill before this one was published. Now I’ll have to wait months for the next instalment.
It would have been a massive book, if it’s only a trilogy, but Galbraith (Rowling) gets away with 1000 page books, so I think this would have been an epic, but brilliant, one book story.
Pages: 328. Publisher: The Ink Foundry
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