A brutal double murder. A traumatised little boy.
Detective Jack MacIntosh tackles his most impossible case yet.
Detective Jack is standing at the graveside of his old friend and mentor, DCI Frank
Tyler, when the call comes in. ‘Boss – we need you NOW!’
He arrives at a smart Richmond townhouse to a scene of unspeakable horror. There’s blood everywhere – soaking through the thick-pile rug, slashed across the curtains, sprayed across the ceiling. Two bodies lie side-by-side, next to the king-sized bed.
They’re not fresh. They’ve been there at least two weeks.
Nothing adds up. A frenzied attack, yet meticulously executed. Carefully planned. No forced entry.
Then the most chilling discovery of all.
A six-year-old boy, hiding in the study. Clothes stiff with dried blood. Eyes blank.
Silent.
Joshua is the only witness. And whatever he saw has trapped him deep inside himself.
Now Jack is in a race against time to unlock the little boy’s memories and coax out the truth – before the killer returns to silence Joshua for good.
Michelle Kidd is a crime fiction author best known for the DI Jack MacIntosh and DI
Nicki Hardcastle series. Michelle qualified as a legal executive in the early 1990s,
spending ten years practising civil and criminal litigation.
But the dream to write was never far from her mind and in 2008 she began writing the first book in what would later become the DI Jack MacIntosh series.
Michelle now works full time for the NHS and lives in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
She enjoys reading, wine and cats — not necessarily in that order.
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My thoughts: Michelle writes smart, cleverly plotted crime fiction. Her Detective Jack MacIntosh is a complicated character, he’s a good investigator and leader, but he has secrets and complications that could endanger his career. He’s working on an investigation of his own alongside his official cases.
This one is shocking, two people brutally murdered, and their six year old son has been alone in the house with his parents’ bodies for some time. Did he see what happened? He’s not talking and it will take a skilled psychologist to get him to open up.
The couple’s family are in Jack’s sights, the dead man’s brothers are evasive and quick to complain but not to help. Joshua seems afraid of them too.
As the team dig into the family’s secrets and hope for Joshua to start talking, Jack’s distracted by his secret case, and worried about the implications of dealing with a dangerous gangster.
The case is full of twists and the killer is a surprise, I certainly didn’t guess it right up until the last second. Excellent stuff.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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