OMG! What a fabulous book. What I love about John Mars is his unpredictablity.. there is no way you can see what is coming.. a fantastic fifth book..a must read!

BOOM! John has done it again. This is another book that will reel you in and keep you turning the pages.

Although it's a bit darker than his others it's still very emotive.

I found myself feeling anger, sadness and also a sense of loss when it finished.

I don't want to spoil the story so I can't mention too much but I felt for Becca who lost so much and for Maisie but felt nothing but contempt from the start for Dominic.

As you can probably tell I absolutely loved this book and wouldn't hesitate to recommend to everyone.

DS Becca Vincent has caught the case of her career and it’s up to her to stop a dangerous predator, but even with the help of modern policing methods, she finds herself finds herself struggling. Will she and her colleagues be able to unmask a killer before it’s too late? Marrs is a writer familiar with police policy and investigation and it shows in his work, making this a believable and exciting mystery

So, with much excitement I started John Marrs 5th book having loved the previous 4 and ‘The One’ being one of my favourite books EVER!....one of the things I love about this author is his ability to surprise and the different writing styles he adopts and with that the range of stories he tells, never predictable and this book is completely different to any of his others...
The story is set around ( and I don’t want to give too much away) a man on a killing spree to ‘right a set of perceived wrongs’ and the characters who are tasked to find him....the killer is no ordinary killer ( if there is such a thing!!! ) but has gone to great lengths to make ‘the punishment fit the crime’ and what a set of punishments he has decided on!!!! The killer has zero remorse and his only focus is the job in hand, he is chilling, ruthless, scary and fascinating!
The Police who have the unenviable task to catch him include Joe a ‘super recogniser’, a little known dept of the Met who work with facial recognition and Becca a young DS trying to make her mark in the Met, both come with their problems and ‘pasts’ and both back stories are well integrated into the main story, I loved them both and their quirkiness and zeal! ( great word )
I enjoyed the London setting and especially the fact London was going through a heatwave in the book!!!
As with all John Marrs’ books their is a wide range of people woven into the story, and they all have revelations to make about their lives, no one is quite as they seem!!!
The story is fast paced and generous in its twists, turns and OOOOOOO moments and the ending, well in this books case, various endings were tense, sad and touching
So I guess you can tell although this was a very different read as I started by saying its a great read and is hard to define as it could come under thriller, mystery, psychological, suspense, action, drama and police procedural but take all that, shake it up and start to read and it all comes out as one fantastic read that had me from page one
Lovers of John’s previous books will again love this and I think a whole new set of readers will come to appreciate one of our finest story tellers
10/10 5 Stars