It looked, for all intents and purposes, like a suicide. But Detective Daniel Riley’s intuition says something is off. And his intuition is normally pretty good. Maybe it was the teddy bear on the bed that gave him a clue. Or perhaps, the lingering whiff of something feminine he got every now and then at the scene.
As clues come up and Daniel realises he is
investigating a murder, he begins to miss Rachel more and more. Rachel was his fiancée
who was killed in a motorbike accident and he has never got over her. No dating
for him since then, as Rachel was the ONE.
Now he has decided to step his toe into the
dating scene again, but it’s hard as everything reminds him of Rachel. Then another
body pops up, staged similar to the first with another teddy bear. As Daniel
figures out the bear connection, he realises time is not on his side. And as
the pieces to the killer’s identity slot into place, he knows he too might be in
danger.
This was a very interesting story that toes
the line between psychopaths coming from nature or nurture, as well as how
trauma and abuse can shape a person’s life. The characters are well-written and
believable and the author has taken the time to connect the dots and go back
and fill in the gaps. Sure there was a section where you had to just accept
what happened, but the book worked very well overall. It would have been
interesting to find out if there were more bodies along the line, seeing as the
perp knew so much about poison dosage.
The style of writing was easy to read and
allowed you to immerse yourself in the story. I had a few issues with punctuation
though as beside small errors like missing quotation marks, the biggest thing
that got to me was the lack of commas in vocative case (commas before/after the
person being addressed in direct speech).
It was a thoroughly gripping read and I
look forward to what Detective Riley is going to get up to next!
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