DS Jane Bennett takes charge of South London's Lewisham murder squad following the temporary suspension of her boss, DI Mike Lockyer. His involvement with a female witness resulted in her murder. Mike returns to work but he's a shadow of the detective he was a few months before. Bennett gets a desperate call from an old friend to say that her husband, retired colleague Mark Leech, has gone missing. Blood spatters found in the home suggest that she doesn't have long to find him. When Jane is sent to a site in Elmstead Woods ...
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DS Jane Bennett takes charge of South London's Lewisham murder squad following the temporary suspension of her boss, DI Mike Lockyer. His involvement with a female witness resulted in her murder. Mike returns to work but he's a shadow of the detective he was a few months before. Bennett gets a desperate call from an old friend to say that her husband, retired colleague Mark Leech, has gone missing. Blood spatters found in the home suggest that she doesn't have long to find him. When Jane is sent to a site in Elmstead Woods she stumbles upon a sinister murder scene. A tomb has been created, and the body she finds is not Mark's - as she dreaded and suspected - but that of missing university student, Maggie Hungerford. Her killer recorded her last moments, even providing an air supply which was only cut off when the game lost its thrill. Two men admit to having had a sexual relationship with Maggie. Both deny murder. Someone is lying. And Mark is still missing. When another tomb is discovered, an anonymous tip and mounting evidence suggest a disturbing link which threatens to derail both cases and let a murderer walk free. Lockyer is shocked into supporting Bennett in a case which becomes ever more ominous and dangerous as the investigation deepens. They know that their hunt is for a killer with a mind so twisted that he, or she, is likely to stop at nothing.
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More than just a run-of-the-mill police procedural
This is the second book in the Mike Lockyer series. I haven't read the first book and although the author did an excellent job on character development and included some of the history, I did feel that I was at a disadvantage and would definitely recommend reading the first novel if you want to know the whole back story and how Lockyer and Bennett got to where they are. Having said that, I still enjoyed this book very much.
It felt realistic to me with believable characters and portrayal of police work from the forensic to the tedious but essential leg-work down to the interrogation of suspects. I must admit to losing it a bit in the middle though when it seemed to get overly procedural but that didn't last long at all.
The majority of the book is told from DS Bennett's point of view and I particularly enjoyed the parts devoted to her family life and the struggles she goes through juggling trying to solve murder and spending enough time with her autistic son; this made her more than a one-dimensional character and I really felt for her as she was pulled in different directions.
The snippets from the point of view of a victim and her sense of total terror were expertly transferred to me, the reader, and left me feeling chilled especially as being buried alive is a real fear of mine and one of the reasons why I am going to be cremated!
The whole story was written with good pace which kept my interest from start to finish with the last few chapters being particularly exciting and, cliché I know, edge-of-the-seat reading. I have read a lot of thrillers, mystery, crime, etc., books and can usually guess 'whodunnit' quite quickly but must admit that I didn't guess right this time and I just love it when that happens.
This is more than just a run-of-the-mill police procedural crime thriller and I would recommend it to anyone who are fans of this genre or even those who aren't but who enjoy a great story.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher, Pan Macmillan, for my copy in return for an honest review.
