This 5th installment in the DCI Craig Gillard crime thriller series is the best yet -- and I've read them all. There is so much going on in the Surrey Police with a complicated case that starts slowly and then builds to an incredible climax with lots of suspense and tension until the chilling conclusion.
The story begins with a missing woman -- a 25-year-old German-born student at London's Royal College of Music goes missing and doesn't show up for a scheduled performance. Gillard is a bit irritated as the woman hadn't even been missing for 24 hours. He then discovers that she's the daughter of Germany's Minister of Justice and suddenly the case is high profile and they throw all available resources into the search. But, there are problems tracing Beatrice Ulbricht's last known locations and even such a large team can't figure out what happened. But the investigation really turns bizarre when the body of a 15-year-old girl turns up in a car found floating in a flooded river -- the shocker is that it turns out to be someone who had been missing for 37 years! How can this even be possible? The crazy stuff just keeps happening and everyone is working on trying to figure out what is going on. There's so much more that I can't say because -- NO SPOILERS.
You'll just have to read this one! Such a complicated police procedural that requires so much work and involves so many different experts in various criminology fields. I really enjoyed the methodical approach and the details needed for the Surrey Police et al to solve this. The characters are well known to me from reading the previous books and they have grown on me over time. Gillard is the protagonist but others on the team have significant roles as well. The writing is excellent and this was a hard one to put down. I'm looking forward to the next installment due out later this year.
Thank you to NetGalley and Canelo for this e-book ARC to read, review and recommend. I am sure you would be OK to read this as a standalone, but I feel that you'd appreciate it more if you had all the background from the previous books.
This is the 5th book in the series and I recommend reading them all from the beginning, in order.
Genre -- police procedural/crime thriller
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