Edit: 2/3/22: recycling an old BCID (from a book that has gone to the Great Library in the Sky) for the first in the DCI Andrew Fenwick series. Have enjoyed later books so am sure will like this too.

Blurb is as follows: Someone had wanted her to die and had brought her to a twisted, broken death. Now he would kill for her - once, twice, three times - as many times as proved necessary - to avenge her death and finally let her rest in peace.

Twenty years earlier a young woman falls tragically to her death. The only people with her are four schoolfriends. One - or maybe all of them - is responsible. And there's someone intent on letting them have their just desserts.

DCI Andrew Fenwick is soon caught up in a desperate race against time to find the murderer before he completes his bloody vendetta. As the death toll mounts, Fenwick stares failure in the face - unless he can draw the predator out of the shadows and into an unconventional and highly dangerous trap with the ultimate bait.

A good read, the first in the DCI Fenwick series & one which sees Fenwick & his trusty DS trying to track a killer as he tries to pick off four women who may... or may not... have been "involved" in the death of a schoolfriend some twenty years before.

The story follows the killers planning, abductions & murders of the women & of course, the endeavours of Fenwick & co to bring him to justice. Things move pretty steadily throughout, it's not an action packed murder mystery & while it builds to a reasonable climax it isn't of the nail biting, heart-thumping variety.

Overall, it's a good, fairly solid tale with characters that give scope for development & will potentially grow on you. My only criticism is, like the later books (yes, I've been reading out of order yet again!), it is a bit on the long side, although it didn't feel padded out unnecessarily. Book 4 is already sat on TBR mountain waiting to be read.....

Added to Flutterbie9's "Crime/Mystery" Bookbox
Relased as part of the 2022 SEEKING SEPTADS CHALLENGE (#7)

Oooooh, new blood!