Wednesday 17 October 2018




The Fifth to Die - JD Barker-
If you like a fast paced thriller then this could be the book for you. A girl has been found
under the ice not only murdered but not wearing her own clothes. Also there are
anomalies as to the time she has been under and the formation of the ice.
Another girl is missing. Detective Porter and the team have their work cut out.
There are similarities to 4MK but also things that don’t quite add up. Is this him
or a copy cat- or even both? Porter takes his own route whilst the rest of the crew
knuckle down to basics which then leaves Porter in hot water. This is the second
in the MK series and really needs to be read as such. It could stand alone but more
is to be gained having read the first one, and why miss out on a brilliant read
( I rated the first one- The Fourth Monkey 5*)  Fast paced, short snappy chapters
keep the pace flowing which in a longish book is quite a feat. Told from around
three different points of view from the police teams working the different parts ,
the descriptions are excellent and not too long to hold back the plot.
An intriguing case, cleverly written and one to be continued.
I very much look forward to the next instalment.
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The Fifth To Die (4MK Thriller #2)

by
J.D. Barker (Goodreads Author)
 4.54  ·   Rating details ·  80 Ratings  ·  60 Reviews
In the thrilling sequel to The Fourth Monkey, a new serial killer stalks the streets of Chicago, 
while Detective Porter delves deeper into the dark past of the Four Monkey Killer.

Detective Porter and the team have been pulled from the hunt for Anson Bishop, the Four 
Monkey Killer, by the feds. When the body of a young girl is found beneath the frozen waters
 of Jackson Park Lagoon, she is quickly identified as Ella Reynolds, missing three weeks.
 But how did she get there? The lagoon froze months earlier. More baffling? She’s found 
wearing the clothes of another girl, missing less than two days. While the detectives of 
Chicago Metro try to make sense of the quickly developing case, Porter secretly continues 
his pursuit of 4MK, knowing the best way to find Bishop is to track down his mother. 
When the captain finds out about Porter’s activities, he’s suspended, leaving his partners 
Clair and Nash to continue the search for the new killer alone.

Obsessed with catching Bishop, Porter follows a single grainy photograph from Chicago 
to the streets of New Orleans and stumbles into a world darker than he could have possibly
 imagined, where he quickly realizes that the only place more frightening than the mind 
of a serial killer is the mind of the mother from which he came. 



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