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Max Manning‘s crime thriller is a predictable affair with plodding dialogue and which leaves no cliche unturned, relies on the main characters acting idiotically to suit the plot and reduces the female characters to little more than corpses and plot devices. Fenton and Blake are drawn in broad terms while remaining oddly leaden so I couldn‘t empathise with either. This seems to be the first in a planned series but I will not be reading on.

A good action packed psychological crime thriller.
A very convaluted motive for the murders, but a good one, which you don't find out until the last few pages.
I liked the characters even with the 'baggage' of life's cruelty.
A debut novel...I would be happy to read another.

I do love a good murder mystery and this is definitely one of those. The author leads you down many a winding path and I was very happy to follow. An author I will be following