Detective Mike Nash thought that moving back to Yorkshire from London would give him a quieter life. Little did he know . . .
The burglar has a rule: before he leaves, he empties the freezer. Tonight, in the utility room of the Old Manor House, he lifts the lid — and finds a young woman wrapped in a travel rug. Shot dead. Twenty-four hours later, he picks up a burner phone and calls the police.
Detective Mike Nash is already investigating a man found shot through the chest in a hire car, at the end of a quiet country lane that goes nowhere. No wallet. No phone. No match on any database. Now a nameless woman lies on a mortuary slab . . . waiting to thaw.
Nash can’t name either victim. He can’t say if it’s the same killer. All he knows is that bad luck comes in threes.
The gang they call The Snatchers have their orders. And this time their target is on Nash’s patch . . .
Bill Kitson was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire. His father, a wool merchant, was a fan of crime books giving Bill access to his diverse thriller collection from a young age.
Educated at Ashville College, Bill worked in the family business before spending over thirty years as a bank executive. A keen cricketer and sportsman, the highlight of his career came when he umpired a one-day international at Lords.
He and his wife now live in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, where he writes crime, romance, and general fiction.
Bill’s interests include Cricket, Crime, Crete, Cookery, Cryptic crosswords – and also Alliteration.
My thoughts: This is such a good series, the characters are well written, the crimes are often shocking but also realistic and the cops always get their man or woman. I enjoyed seeing Mike’s teenage son Daniel take on more of a role in this story – he’s shaping up to get his own series I reckon.
The various cases the team get this time eventually weave into one and allow them to identify the victims and tighten the net around the suspect. There are bodies abandoned in cars, on rural estates and wrapped up in a rug in a freezer, a missing child and a burglar with the taste for fine dining.
It’s all very well done and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Excellent crime fiction.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
