I absolutely love this series! This is Book 11 in the DS Maeve Kerrigan series – and it’s yet another brilliant, tense and precisely-plotted police procedural. You’ll want to clear the diary for this one as you won’t easily put it down.
The story opens with Maeve being called to what seems to be a murder-suicide of an older couple, the Marshalls. However, things don’t quite make sense at the crime scene and the investigation soon becomes a double murder. This would be tragic enough, until the couple’s links to a child’s disappearance 16 years previously are uncovered – and it seems that the motives for the double murder lie in the earlier tragic event. It’s up to Maeve to unravel the truth about the Marshalls and the cold-case of the missing child – as the answers are inextricably joined.
As has become the norm with the series, there’s more of the ‘will-they-won’t-they’ sexual tension between Maeve and DI Josh Derwent. I’ll admit that I was getting a bit frustrated at Josh’s endless personal crises keeping them apart (something that continues in this book), but there is some progression so let’s take that as a bit of a win.
However, simmering sexual tension aside, this mystery is fantastic. There were twists I didn’t see coming, lots of misdirection and some real shocks. I found myself wanting to just read the next chapter…and the next one…and the next…and, yes, I’ve got to get up for work in not many hours, but I need to keep reading!
If you love the Maeve Kerrigan series, you’ll adore this latest instalment. If you haven’t yet met Maeve, start right back at Book 1 – you’ve got some catching up to do but you won’t regret it. Either way, this is a clever and exciting murder mystery with a really rather unique premise – I read a lot of murder mysteries and felt this offered something a bit extra!
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