The first chapter in this book was absolutely brilliant and sucked me in! It gave me a real feel of what the book was going to be like.
It is so hard to do reviews for these type of book without giving spoilers! 'Never Say Goodbye' is a gripping read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is a really well put together story with interesting characters.
This is the first book in the series and if the rest of series as good as this one, I cant wait until they are published to see where the story goes.

Interesting novel but not sure how well I liked the main detective. He was solid just didn't feel that I liked him thinking him to be a man who doesn't seem to make friends.

Story was great and kept me on my toes as I tried to piece together just what was happening.

Loved this book. I'm a sucker for a good murder mystery/police procedural and really enjoyed Richard Parker's first Tom Fabian book. I thought Tom was a believable character, I liked the pacing which kept me reading and although I thought I figured out who the murderer was, I was wrong! (which is always good from the reader's perspective!
A ripping read and highly recommended. I'll be looking out for Tom Fabian!!!
Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to review another great book.

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I would like to thank Netgalley and Bookouture for an advance copy of Never Say Goodbye, the first novel to feature DI Tom Fabian of The Met.

Fabian is relegated to no hope cases until an incident leaves him in charge of the ongoing investigation into four fatal stabbings. With no forensics or consistent victimology the case has been going nowhere until he makes an overlooked link. The hunt is now on but with the killer accelerating his schedule it becomes a race against time.

I enjoyed Never Say Goodbye which is a solid, if unspectacular, procedural, full of blind alleys and red herrings. It kept me turning the pages right to the end, which includes a teaser for the next novel in the series. It ticks all the boxes required for the genre, lonely detective who lives for his work, heartache in his private life, uneasy relationship with most of his colleagues, a fair few likely suspects with secrets and a chase scene. The author chooses to deviate from his straightforward third person narrative to insert the killing of some of the victims and I'm not sure that it adds anything except the randomness of the victims, albeit chosen randomness. Still, despite this, Mr Parker does an excellent job of concealing both the perpetrator and the motive which is decided bonus when, too often, both are easy to guess.

Never Say Goodbye is a good start to a new series. 3.5*

After an excellent experience with the author's previous work, I just HAD to try out his new detective series. My experience with Richard Parker's thrillers has shown that he writes them to be dark, disturbing and lightning fast, so I might have set my expectations a tad too high. There is no doubt that Murder Map was a very interesting start of a new detective series, and I had a great time figuring out the who and why. BUT. I was expecting something with a little more impact to actually be able to blow my socks off. It was fast, it had a creepy serial killer, it had twists and disturbing moments, but overall there was just something about the story that didn't quite hit the mark for me. It might just have been that I've read one too many detective series already, but the new detective didn't really stand out for me. It's not that the character development is bad, and I guess there is a strong base for the future books, but I'm not sure detective Tom Fabian and his team stood out from other detective teams so far. The case was an interesting one though, and I liked the idea of the murder map and the different streets in London. It's weird to say this as the murders are quite gruesome, but I would have liked a little more focus on them and/or more disturbing details to add more suspense? I guess Murder Map didn't manage to creep me out as much as I thought it would, but again this could have been just me having different expectations after his previous books. That said, I'm definitely curious about the next book after that cliffhanger ending.

Sometimes your brain makes the wrong conclusion. This can take you on a very dark path...

This story was so fast paced that I was expecting to get a ticket for speeding any minute. I really like it that way. It felt like an invisible hand popped out of the book, picked me up by the collar and immersed me into it.

it was simply unputdownable and when you thought it was all over, the epilogue makes the little hairs on your neck stand on end ...

Thank you, Richard Parker, Bookouture and Netgalley

I am a massive fan of this author’s works so when I saw that he had a new release coming out I was really looking forward to it and I will be honest - I’d read the book completely within a few hours of it arriving on my Kindle!

His last couple of releases had been ones that completely hooked me and I am so pleased so say that this one was just the same!! I find that Parker has a writing style that completely captivates me and I didn’t want to put the book down, the whole think flowed very well and it made for a highly entertaining and very enjoyable story.

I loved the characters and their fight to try and get the case resolved. The twists and turns were great and until the last few chapters I wasn’t sure who was actually responsible – I love a good ending and this one was excellent – definitely a shocker!

Another 5 stars read for me – very, very highly recommended and I am really looking forward to seeing what he releases next!!