Publisher: Bantam Press
Pages: 384
Format: DRC
ISBN-10: 0593080491
ISBN-13: 9780593080498
Series: Harry Virdee #3
Publisher: eBook | Hardcover | Paperback | Audiobook
It is an ordinary Yorkshire morning, cold and miserable.
The streets are not yet busy. Police cars hurriedly pull up in the centre of town, but none of their lights are flashing and the sirens are silent.
A body has been found, elaborately and painstakingly positioned to send a message. But what message? And to who?
It’s DI Harry Virdee’s job to find out. But Harry doesn’t know that the killer is watching him, that the killer is coming for him.
Because this is personal.
This is the third instalment of the series but can be read as a stand alone. I have not been following this series and did not get the feeling I missed important things that would be of influence on this book.
I enjoyed the political and religious aspects in this book. There are a lot of interesting details about the habits of the Indian Sikh and Paki Muslim's. The tension between these two groups were very obvious on paper.
What I had a harder time believing was the things Harry got away with in his job. I cannot imagine that a detective can still work the case when he is so obviously a target. It did cause a lot of excitement for the story.
It is possible to puzzle along with this book and there are a lot of possibilities. I did come up with the endgame but it was surely not the only option until the true outcome was revealed. Do keep in mind that this book is not really for the faint hearted. Some of the crime scenes are very visual in description.
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