British noir. Love the stuff. It was at its best in this book by Luke Delaney.
Detective Inspector Sean Corrigan and his murder crime unit are assigned to the case of a young man found brutally murdered in his London flat. The scene is completely clean. Not a clue, hair or even DNA is found. Cause of death is a blow to the head, but the victim was carefully stabbed with an ice pick mutable times all over his body. Then another murder, and another, but the killer changes his MO at each crime scene.
DI Corrigan has a past that makes him strangely able to sense things about the killer and the crime scene. This ability is respected by his fellow investigators. This ability, and his past, haunt Corrigan. He desperately tries to keep his home life separate from both.
The killer narrates from his point of view, giving few clues and this keeps you guessing as to who the real killer is, despite a suspect. Very tense. Chilling at times. Extremely hard to put down.
I thought I had figured this one out - but then I wasn't so sure.
This is Delaney's first book. Excellent crime fiction. I can not wait for the second to be available for Kindle!
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