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Title: The Puppet ShowAuthor: M. W. Craven
Published: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 352
Rating: 3/5
This is the first book in the Washington Poe series.
Summary:
A serial killer is burning people alive in the middle of various stone circles in the Lake District and disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought into the investigation when his name appears on the charred remains of one of the victims.
Review:
This was a gruesome and dark book and I wholly enjoyed it.
The whole story starts off with a bang and I was immediately pulled in. The crimes in here are twisted and horrible, but also intriguing and I was so curious as to what was going on. It's written in a way that's extremely readable and it has a lot of suspense to it.
I liked getting to know our characters in here, but I will say, they felt very stereotypical to me; we've got the disgraced detective who will go to any length to get justice, even if it costs him his career, and he teams up with a genius analyst whose good at computers and math, but socially inept and awkward. I liked them just fine, but I would've preferred them to be a bit more complex, and I think there could've been more depth to the relationships between various characters.
The mystery was the best part of the book for me and I liked how complicated it was. I did manage to figure out who had done it before it was revealed, but I still liked reading about the mind behind the crime and why it had been done, even if I felt like the last part of the book dragged out quite a lot.
My reading enjoyment of this was very high though, high enough to make me want to pick up the next book in this series. If you like police procedurals, I'm sure this is worth giving a go. I will say though, it does get quite graphic in parts, so be prepared for that.
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