-The Killing Choice by Will Shindler- crime/police procedural
OMG what an opening! “ Leave your daughter with me or I will kill you both”.
A man and his grown up daughter meet to go for dinner as they often do.
They take a walk through a park and are confronted by a man in a mask
who then says the line above. Karl is torn between protecting his
daughter and saving his own skin and possibly hers too. Leah then tells
him to go as that way they could both be saved. What transpires next
is everyone's worst nightmare and DI Alex Finn and DC Mattie Paulson
have little to go on- it was dark in a park with lots of ways out and little
evidence. The skill and experience of a scriptwriter stands out
immediately and there is something more about this than “just another
crime novel”. The torment of a father feeling he has let down both his
daughter and his wife who is struggling to come to terms with what
he did, let alone what happened. When there are other similar murders
the team think they have a link- albeit a very tenuous one. This is the
second in the series but happily stands alone (I hadn’t read the first
one and didn't feel as if I was missing anything). A tense,gripping
read with very vivid characterisations and suspense to put you at
the heart of the scene. A brilliantly written, page turning thriller of a read
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