This second in the crime thriller series featuring DI Eleanor Raven and her colleagues at the Toronto Police Homicide Division is every bit as action-packed and suspenseful as the first. In this outing, the team is confronted by unusual burnt remains at a local landfill. When questioned, the somewhat handicapped worker and entry grade sanitation officer who lived on site claimed that he thought the body was actually a mannequin.
Eleanor is returning to active duty 6 months after being horrifically injured in a previous case and still undergoing psychiatric evaluation in order to determine her fitness for her job. As she and her partner, Detective Laurence Whitefoot, begin the investigation, they find that the victim was a transsexual who frequented a local bar when she disappeared over 2 years ago. When links are connected to another murdered woman and then a kidnapped boy, Eleanor and the team discover that this killer may actually be trying to preserve his victims with some sort of sick embalming methods. Can the team piece together this extraordinary story in time to stop this disturbed psychopath? NO SPOILERS.
It was great to read this one immediately after the first and I enjoyed it immensely. A very quick read and fast-paced narrative will keep you glued to the pages and you'll want to finish in a single session. I like Eleanor, even though she's as messed up as every other female detective in this genre lately, because she's tormented in a different way. Typical of the trope, she often goes off on her own and has trouble with relationships which ends up putting herself in peril. I hope that future books will see her settling down a bit and that she will find continuing therapy beneficial. I'd like to see more development in the partnership between Eleanor and Lightfoot, and hope to learn more about the other characters as well.
Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for this e-book ARC to read, review, and recommend.
This is the second in a series that should be read in order.
Genre - crime thriller, murder, police procedural
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