The Murder Mile- Lesley McEvoy- crime/police psychological/procedural

Wow! One of the most interesting reads I have had for a long time. Jo McCready is a

forensic psychologist. Her friend and one time colleague Callum calls her when they

receive a call about a body having been found on a canal towpath. This is the second

one of its type recently and Callum knows Jo will give him a true picture, more so than

the psychologist that the force have on their books and no one likes. When Jo receives

a strange phone call at home and is then called in to see a particular patient by one of

her colleagues and they turn out to be one and the same person, she gets rather more

than she anticipated. Martha’s alter personality she claims is Jack the Ripper.

This is a very well researched novel from two perspectives. One of Jack the Ripper

and the other being the psychological angle. I was totally gripped with this and

devoured it page by page. this is my first book by Lesley and certainly won’t be my last.

5** - for books that have that special quality and this one deserves it in spades.

 A truly stunning read.

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The Murder Mile blurb Forensic Psychologist, Jo McCready is assisting DCI Callum Ferguson on a murder inquiry, when one of her patients is found brutally murdered. Jo was the last person to see Martha Scott alive. She was helping Martha unlock a repressed memory. But during the session Jo unlocked more than she bargained for. An alter personality introduces himself as the reincarnation of Jack the Ripper – and thanks Jo for setting him free to kill again. As Ferguson’s team race to find Martha’s killer, a series of copycat killings begin, replicating ‘The Autumn of Terror’ in 1888. But if Jack is just a construct of Martha’s damaged mind, who killed her? As the body count rises, Jo must construct a profile to stop the murderer re-creating the terror of the most infamous serial killer of all time. But not everyone is on Jo’s side. The police Intelligence Unit have their own profiler, Liz Taylor-Caine, who resents Jo’s involvement as a contributing expert in the case. Suspicion about Jo’s involvement in the killings increases when someone close to the team becomes one of Jack’s victims. And as the anniversary of the final and most gruesome of all the killings looms, Jo discovers that the killer has one murder on his mind far closer to home…

LESLEY McEVOY biography Lesley McEvoy was born and bred in Yorkshire and has had a passion for writing in one form or another all her life. The writing took a backseat as Lesley developed her career as a Behavioural Analyst and Psychotherapist – setting up her own Consultancy business and therapy practice. She has written and presented extensively around the world for over 25 years specialising in behavioural and attitudinal management, with a wide variety of organisations. The corporate world provided unexpected sources of writing material when, as Lesley said – she found more psychopaths in business than in prison! Lesley’s work in some of the UK’s toughest prisons was where she met people whose lives had been characterised by drugs and violence and whose experiences have informed the themes she now writes about. Deciding in 2017 to concentrate on her writing again, Lesley produced her debut novel, due to be published by Bloodhound Books in May 2019. These days she lives in Cheshire with her partner but still manages to lure her two grown up sons across the Pennines with her other passion - cooking family feasts.