Fatal Games
Mari Hannah
HarperCollins/Witness Impulse, Apr 7 2015, $11.99
ISBN: 9780062387134
On Bambaugh Beach just below the Bambaugh Castle in
Northumberland, a father and child find human bones. Leaving Newcastle with her team, Detective
Chief Inspector Kate Daniels leads the investigation hampered by increasingly
bad weather and the poor terrain.
Forensic anthropologist Abby Hunt says the victims were both females
with one being a teen and the other a tweener.
However every time Kate and Detective Sergeant Hank Gormley believe they
made progress on resolving what happened to the two young girls, more questions
arise especially when more corpses are found; as the case to the chagrin of
everyone involved seems heading to the cold files.
Psychologist Emily McCann returns to work at nearby HMP
Northumberland Category B Prison for the first time since her husband died a
few months ago. Although worried about
her young daughter Rebecca being without her for the first time since she lost
her dad, Emily also fears her fascination with convicted sexual predator Walter
Fearon who will soon be released after his seven year sentence for raping an
elderly woman ends. Emily also is
concerned with Fearon’s return to society.
Clues finally lead the police to diabolically brilliant Fearon at the
prison where Kate’s former lover psychologist Jo Soulsby works.
The fourth Kate Daniels police procedural (see Deadly Deceit,
Settled Blood and The Murder Wall) is a very dark atmospheric mystery. In a cold foreboding background and
character-driven especially by Fearon and the prison staff perhaps even more
than the DCI and her team, subgenre fans will want to read this exhilarating
British whodunit.
Harriet Klausner
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