Published: Nov. 29, 2011
Words: 114210 (approximate)
Language: English

Short description

DCI Rose Huntingford fantasises about a proper job where she'd get a decent night's sleep and never have to look at another body. Maybe that would sort her personal life out too, because it's the pits. Then identical twins start dying and Rose must find what links the victims, apart from a monozygotic conception. Dangerous work when those responsible have no intention of being apprehended.

Extended description

Fat, Forties, Frustrated and in a going-nowhere relationship, DCI Rose Huntingford is thinking more and more about throwing in the towel to reclaim her life before it’s too late. She fantasises about a proper job, where she could vegetate between coffee and lunch breaks and never again have to view a corpse or be rudely awoken by a phone call well before dawn.
Then two sadistic murders are committed within hours – very different methods of dispatch, but both victims are identical twins. Rose, herself a fraternal twin, faces an uphill struggle to convince her colleagues the cases are connected. Having proved her point, she and her team are exposed to a regime of deceit, death and danger, where few people are who or what they seem.
Vital clues lay buried in the past and when a young member of her squad is kidnapped, it becomes a race against time for Rose to identify the pivotal motive behind an ever-increasing body count – and to ensure that count does not increase. An intern... (Read more) Fat, Forties, Frustrated and in a going-nowhere relationship, DCI Rose Huntingford is thinking more and more about throwing in the towel to reclaim her life before it’s too late. She fantasises about a proper job, where she could vegetate between coffee and lunch breaks and never again have to view a corpse or be rudely awoken by a phone call well before dawn.
Then two sadistic murders are committed within hours – very different methods of dispatch, but both victims are identical twins. Rose, herself a fraternal twin, faces an uphill struggle to convince her colleagues the cases are connected. Having proved her point, she and her team are exposed to a regime of deceit, death and danger, where few people are who or what they seem.
Vital clues lay buried in the past and when a young member of her squad is kidnapped, it becomes a race against time for Rose to identify the pivotal motive behind an ever-increasing body count – and to ensure that count does not increase. An international network trading lucratively in human lives want Rose dead and don’t much care who gets in the way, but - wary on all levels of whom she can trust - she is willing to risk everything, including her life, to rescue the girl and close the case.
The chief perpetrator under lock and key, Rose faces a disciplinary board - but is at least content in the knowledge that justice has been done and all loose ends are tied up.
How wrong she is.
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psychological killer, women detective crime, romance and murder

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Review by: Gordon Tatler on May 05, 2012 : (no rating)
Really good plot - if you can keep up with it. For my taste there are too many characters to remember them all, but a grea read. Do get her other book. They are jus as good.
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Review by: diana russell on Dec. 17, 2011 :
good plot and characters but drop all the british slang the book would be mo readable
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Review by: Nanette on Dec. 01, 2011 :
Good book. I really liked some of the characters, though I got a little lost in the plot. I couldn't figure out who was dead, why they were dead, who killed them, who was supposed to be dead and wasn't, why anyone was dead at all, who some of the investigators were and, oh, a few other things about the book.

But the story moved along, it was fun to read and I finished it in no time, hoping all would be answered at the end, and some of it even was! I like DCI Huntingford, so I look forward to reading more works with her in them.

One thing, though. It may be different there, but in the US, at least, it is grisly, not grizzly. Here, grizzly is a bear.
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