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A gripping crime thriller for all fans of Stuart McBride, Peter James and Mark Billingham
Driving Dead
‘With horror, she felt all the muscles in her body cramp, as her body went into an uncontrollable spasm her right foot hit the accelerator pedal and lay there like a brick’
When a woman is killed and her family seriously injured in a road collision, Jake Jordan and his team of road policing officers are called in to investigate.
Discovering a water bottle laced with a substance which causes drivers to have seizures and die while driving, Jordan enlists the help of Kirsty Kingsfield and her long time microbiologist friend Dr Tanya Nicholls.
The police find themselves with an abduction of one of their own and a near fatal accident, following an aborted sting operation by new Detective Inspector, Fletcher Randall.
But Jordan & Kirsty’s race to uncover the killer leads the team closer to home. Will Jordan and Kirsty uncover the killer before it’s too late?
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I’m not a regular reader of crime novels but this was recommended to me and I’m glad it was. Great plot twists and turns and a gripping story that keeps up the pace and interest. Recommended.
S. Wilshire - Amazon
This long-awaited sequel to Blind Murder definitely does not disappoint. It’s every bit as dense as the first book and every bit as creepy as Collier mixes the relatively bland and comical police jargon together with ghastly, gory, violent death. As you read on you begin to understand why police and the other emergency services need to speak in light-hearted jargon as a means of coping with the sheer evil that’s out there.
One thing I would say about Driving Dead is that to enjoy it to the full, it helps if you already have read Blind Murder. Although the main plots in both books are completely standalone, the background stories and narrative will come alive for you better if you already know what they are about and what happened.
Many of the characters from the first book reappear in this one, and we share Collier’s very sensitive portrayal of the recently widowed Dr Kirsty Kingfield coping with the horrors of her job, her grief at the loss of her husband, and the early rumblings of emotional and romantic recovery.
At nearly 400 pages it’s a long book and there are many different characters and sub-plots to keep up with, so make sure you allow it plenty of time! It’s worth every minute, too.
Suzan St Maur - Amazon