I have to say, to begn with, that this is not my cup of tea. I have read all the crime classics, but now, a book in this genre should have something really special, or be fabulously well-written to call my attention. To kill (he, he) the surprise, this novel is not that special. It is a run of the mill mystery crime, within the subgenre of psychopathic killer.

The same night a local hero saved two people from the burning Marineland resort in Southend, a young woman was raped and murdered minutes from the scene of the fire. It is the last and most recent crime in a very long list of brutal rapes which has never been solved. The killer of this specific case was never found.

Twenty-five years on, new DNA techniques have blown the cold case open. DI Grace Fisher relishes the prospect of finally catching the culprit, but when the evidence doesn’t point to one clear suspect, she must reconstruct the original investigation.

Grace finds her investigation shadowed by a young true-crime podcaster backed by veteran crime reporter Ivo Sweatman. As pressure mounts she knows that a cold-blooded killer is slowly being backed into a corner, and a cornered predator is often the most dangerous of all…