My copy expired before I'd finished it but by that stage I knew who did it and why, although not if he was caught and his fate. Quite a good plot in the way the murders were linked which wasn't obvious but not sure about some of the characters in the story. Locations were mostly fictious in Lancashire and I prefer real locations, so I've marked it down. ( )

Good, speedy story, packed with plenty of excitement and gore. Not up to Neil White's other offerings however as it was a bit too predictable (although I may be reading too many of his books - perhaps it is time for a change). ( )

An enjoyable, gritty murder story set in the fictitious town of Backley in Yorkshire. It starts with the apparently motiveless murder of Jane Roberts, a young attractive woman, though it later transpires that her father is the local underworld boss. It also quickly becomes apparent that this murder matches an earlier one in which the daughter of a police officer from the same town had been killed.
The police investigation is led by the lugubrious and splenetic Inspector Carson, assisted by Sergeant Laura McGanity. Things are complicated by the fact that she lives with Jack Garrett, leading reporter for the local paper.
As more attacks are reported, the local underworld boss has his thugs out looking for revenge. Can the police find their man before he is "offed" by local hoodlums? Can Garrett get a story without compromising McGanity?
Neil White manages the multiple plot streams admirably, and the reader's attention never flags. ( )