Blog Tour: The Putney Bridge Killer – Biba Pearce

A brutal murder. A deadly secret. A killer who’s done this before . . .

DCI Rob Miller is called to a murder scene in the early hours of the morning. A young woman’s body has been discovered under Putney Bridge.
There are clear signs this was a brutal attack. The crime scene is especially unnerving for DCI Miller. It mirrors the victims of the Surrey Stalker — a sadistic predator Miller took down five
years ago.
But the Surrey Stalker is dead.

This killer isn’t just copying the past — They know things only the original murderer could have known. They know police secrets and crime scene details that were withheld from the press.
With the media circling and a mole inside the force leaking information, Miller must untangle a deadly web of deception before the killer strikes again.

But as the body count rises and the noose tightens, one question haunts him: Did he catch the wrong man all those years ago?

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Biba Pearce is a crime writer and author of the DCI Rob Miller, Kenzie Gilmore and Shrap Nelson series. Her books have been shortlisted for the Feathered Quill and the CWA Debut Dagger awards, and The Marlow Murders was voted best crime fiction book in the Indie Excellence Book Awards.
Biba lives in leafy Surrey with her family and when she isn’t writing, can be found walking along the Thames River path – near to where many of her books are set – or rambling through the countryside.

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My thoughts: Putney’s a nice little place, but even nice places can attract terrible people. When a body is found by the river, the first officer on the scene wonders if it washed up from somewhere else, but instead it appears as if the killer has risen from the dead. The woman was killed in exactly the same way as five years before.

DCI Miller and his team have a copy cat on their hands, but more troublingly this killer seems to know details the police withheld from the public. There’s also someone inside the investigation leaking information to the press. Something they really don’t need. The pressure is coming from all directions. Can they catch this killer before he kills as many as the Surrey Stalker did before and prove they were right back then too?

Smart police investigation fiction with a likeable team of officers, a gruesome killer and some pretty clever twists.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own