Forensic investigator Reilly Steel, Quantico-trained and California-born and bred, imagined Dublin to be a far cry from bustling San Francisco, a sleepy backwater where she can lay past ghosts to rest and start anew.

She's arrived in Ireland to drag the Irish crime lab into the 21st century, plus keep tabs on her Irish-born father who's increasingly seeking solace in the bottle after a past family tragedy. But a brutal serial killer soon puts paid to that. When a young man and woman are found dead in an apartment, the gunshot wounds on their naked bodies suggest a suicide pact.

But Reilly's instincts are screaming that something's seriously amiss, and as more bodies are discovered, the team soon realises that a twisted murderer is at work, one who seeks to upset society's norms in the most sickening way imaginable...

A first thriller co-written by Melissa Hill and her husband Kevin, it’s definitely a far cry from Melissa’s other novels and I must say she has made the switch very well. After reading this hair raising story you would not think for one minute it is the work of one of Ireland’s finest ‘Chick Lit’ writers.

Although I enjoyed the read I was not completely hooked until over half way through the book and then I was at a point of no return, I could not put it down!

There is a major twist in this story which makes you realise that the start is not slow but more of a dramatic build up and the writers are careful not to give the game away.

It is definitely not for the faint hearted and will keep you guessing the whole way through. I am very much looking forward to reading more of Reilly’s adventures.

Review by Laura Hodge

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