Two women are found murdered in the trench of a building site. Both were killed by a single gun shot. One of them is identified as a local nurse, Agnes Moore. She's said to have been an angel to young women from the streets who were in distress. The other body is about 2 months older and the police have no leads on who she is or why she was killed. In addition, a teenaged girl on the run is hiding from some very bad people and she may have vital information for DCI Rachel King and her team. There's some evidence of people trafficking through a local seedy club and additional violence ensues as detectives start getting closer to the black heart at the source. NO SPOILERS.
I am really enjoying this fast-paced police procedural/crime thriller series. In this second book, we see more of the same Rachel King with her incredible work ethic and her continued personal issues involving her family life and her past history with local criminal turned profitable businessman, Jed McAteer. Not much more has come out to let us get to know the various other characters any better but this case was quite complicated and interesting. I like when the details and clues are painstakingly found through tedious investigation along with forensic examination and are slowly revealed as they'd be in a real police case. Some of the revelations were surprising. I'm looking forward to reading the third book in this compelling series.
Thank you to NetGalley and Joffe Books for this e-book ARC to read and review.
This is the second book in the series that I suggest be read in order.
Genre -- police procedural, crime thriller, female detective
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