narrated by Elizabeth Knowelden
Unabridged audio (10:22)
2018 Thomas & Mercer
344 pgs.
Adult Murder Mystery/Serial Killer
Finished 1/11/2020
Goodreads rating: 4.27 - 7121 ratings
My rating: 3.5/4
Setting: contemporary Great Britain
First line/s: "1986: It was the scratching noise that brought Poppy down to the place where she wasn't allowed to go."
My comments: Throughout the reading of this entire book I had a jittery, nervous, uncomfortable feeling. I guess I was just incredibly pput off the the loathsomeness of Lillian Grimes. And it looks like her presence will be front and center in future books in the series, so I'm reluctant to continue. Creep, disconcerting feeling. I can't say that the protagonist is one of my favorites, either. The story twists and turns as it twines a current day kidnapping with the scandalous serial murders of the Grimes family years previously. The kicker is that the smart, dedicated copy, Amy Winters, is the youngest daughter of these killers, a fact that she doesn't remember and hasn't been told...until the beginning of this book, when she receives a letter from her birth mother from prison. A wild ride.
Goodreads synopsis: Meet Amy Winter: Detective Inspector, daughter of a serial killer.
DI Amy Winter is hoping to follow in the footsteps of her highly respected police officer father. But when a letter arrives from the prison cell of Lillian Grimes, one half of a notorious husband-and-wife serial-killer team, it contains a revelation that will tear her life apart.
Responsible for a string of heinous killings decades ago, Lillian is pure evil. A psychopathic murderer. And Amy’s biological mother. Now, she is ready to reveal the location of three of her victims—but only if Amy plays along with her twisted game.
While her fellow detectives frantically search for a young girl taken from her mother’s doorstep, Amy must confront her own dark past. Haunted by blurred memories of a sister who sacrificed herself to save her, Amy faces a race against time to uncover the missing bodies.
But what if, from behind bars, Grimes has been pulling the strings even tighter than Amy thought? And can she overcome her demons to prevent another murder?
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