Detective Sergeant Alex Brady is the unpopular new boy at Moorford police station. His sudden arrival following a personal, tragedy and professional misjudgment, leading to demotion, doesn’t help him settle into this new workplace. Despite the difficult relationship with most of his colleagues, the experience from a career in the tough areas of Manchester becomes an asset. A series of gruesome murders gets underway within and near the town soon after Brady’s arrival, it is then the value of Brady’s experience and sharp intellect show their worth. The murder investigation is complicated by a persistent unknown stalker, terrorising a woman living alone. Solving the murders seems a near-impossible task. Although the murders appear to follow the pattern of earlier unresolved events, no clues, are left behind by the perpetrator to these or the earlier murders.
The characters are well drawn and believable; the plot is intricate but accessible, the balance in terms of description and information is for me exactly right. I enjoyed this book immensely reading it very quickly and I found it difficult to put down. I shall seek out more books from Mr Devine.
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