Blog Tour: The Midnight Killer – Jez Pinfold

While the city sleeps, a killer strikes.

Detective Bec Pope is waiting in Heathrow departures when the call comes in: a body has been found in a quiet Bloomsbury cemetery. Her long-overdue holiday is over before it begins.

It’s no ordinary crime scene. The smartly-dressed young man hasn’t just been murdered. The killer has left a message – a pentagram, brutally carved into the dead man’s chest.

Then a second victim is discovered on a patch of scrubland in Bermondsey. Another young man, killed at midnight, just like the first.
The same five-pointed symbol etched into his flesh.

Bec is on the hunt for a ruthless killer unlike any she’s faced before. If she is to crack the case, she must discover what the symbols mean. And why these victims were targeted.

With the press circling and the entire city on edge, Bec’s running out of time in a case that grows darker by the hour. She needs to stop the killer before midnight strikes – and another life is taken.

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Jez Pinfold taught English and Film Studies in London for twenty years, including eight years as Head of English. Before landing in secondary teaching he had various jobs, including roadie, sound engineer, guitar tutor and teacher of English as a foreign language.
After writing, his other passion is music. He plays guitar in a rowdy covers band currently called The Maverick Detectives, although they frequently change their name to avoid becoming too recognised and succumbing to the trappings of fame.

My thoughts: This is a twisted case, the killer leaving an inverted pentagram carved into the flesh of their victims  – it implies some dark purpose behind their crimes.

Detective Bec Pope and her team can find no connections between the two victims, and they need to work out the person responsible before anyone else comes to harm. Then it takes a very personal turn.

This was a really clever, gripping read, I had no idea where the twists and turns were going and the killer is remorseless, taunting the detectives, especially Bec, with whom they seem to have become a little obsessed.

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