-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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