4.5 Stars from me
The body count is rising fast in Edinburgh and Dr Connie Woolwine ‘Wooly’ and Brodie Baarda are enlisted to bring their particular style of investigation to catch the killer.
Dr Beth Waterfall is grieving for a daughter – a beautiful and unique spirit who suffered a brutal regime of stalking and personal attacks before losing her life. Understandly, Beth Waterful a surgeon at the local hospital, finds her world is rocked to the core and struggles massively to rebuild a life worth living.
There are some deeply unsettling characters in Watching You, Helen Fields breaths life into some of the most disturbed and depraved individuals – and also pens the bonkers Dr Connie Woolwine whose methods in this book are more out there than ever. Actually felt really quite sorry for Brodie Baarda in this one, he felt more like a taken for granted accessory.
The main policing team are great too, some really likeable characters among them and I enjoyed following Salter, Lively and Overbeck who set a balanced pathway alongside Connie Woolwine’s more unconventional one.
There is A LOT packed into this book, with twists and turns that didn’t see coming.
Blurb: On the dark streets of Edinburgh, a killer is waiting. When a body is found, it is only the beginning. Soon there will be seven more. In the city’s hospital, renowned surgeon Beth Waterfall is grieving. Her beloved only daughter fell prey to a vicious stalker a year previously – and now he’s coming for her too. Edinburgh’s police are desperate. After one body comes another, and then another. The brutal deaths are all seemingly unconnected, yet DS Lively and forensic profiler Dr Connie Woolwine know they are dealing with a serial killer – they just need to prove it. But time is running out, and Beth Waterfall already looks set to be the next victim…
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