Crime inamoratos, settle in your favourite niche, have food
and drink to hand, open this book and you`re away! Set in the city of
Philadelphia in the grip of a severe winter, a city which once had a church on
nearly every street but whose previously religious-minded population has
abandoned those streets and churches to poverty and
neglect, this is a book which is charged with horror, fear and electrifying
emotion.
“One God, seven
churches.” ” You will find the first of the dead at….”. The chilling call taken
by detective Jessica Balzano at Police HQ begins the nightmare. She and her
partner Kevin Byrne are on the trail of a ruthless killer who uses the
basements of the city`s abandoned
Catholic churches as killing rooms.
Each murder is different: an ex-policeman wrapped in barbed wire and kept alive
for 10 days: the second victim frozen in a block of ice….. The list goes on,
shocking the citizens of the city. The Press, and in particular television reporter Shane Adams, whose methods of
discovering the dirt on people are, to say the least, unscrupulous, are
desperate to supply their own reasons for what is going on but are as baffled
as the investigators. Jessica, Kevin and eventually their whole team are
involved with the case - a killer who leaves pointers: missals with each body,
the differing m.o.s of the crimes: are there perhaps clues in the Bible, in
particular in the Book of Revelations as to motive and means? Is there
something in the perpetrators` past leading them to do this?
The reader is confronted with brilliantly conceived twists
to the story – characters appear who lead us to develop, rightly or wrongly,
our own possible solutions and adding further to the excruciating suspense.
What kind of a person would do this and why?
Excellent read. I could not put the book down! I would
highly recommend this author and look forward to reading more of his work.
Reviewed by Liz.Thank you to Sphere for sending us a copy to review.
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