4 Stars from me
Despite knowing from the beginning that Maddie ends up being interviewed in jail, I read this hoping all the while that she would get away with her crimes 🤦♀️
Maddie Reid has had one hell of a childhood – now finding herself completely unaware of the every day things that most people take for granted. The book flits between her being out and tracking down ‘fleas’ to eradicate, and the interviews in prison with a visitor aiming to publish a book about her. I enjoyed both parts equally, and had my suspicious about who her mysterious prison visitor might be.
There are several characters with potential to be the Manchester Maniac, but can Maddie find out who he is before the police manage to track her down?
Great thriller, with a side order of retribution, what’s not to like?
My thanks to Netgalley, the author and Avon Books UK for an ARC in return for an honest review.
Blurb: There’s no smoke without fire…
As someone who has suffered abuse at the hands of men, Maddie protects women by murdering those who attack them – men she calls ‘fleas’. Fleas are men who follow women home. Abusive husbands who refuse to walk away. And then there’s the Manchester Maniac: a serial killer stalking the streets, determined to murder people like her.
But Maddie can’t get away with it forever. Years later, in the interview room of her prison, she comes face-to-face with a very important visitor. Someone she’s going to tell all to, about how she caught one of the UK’s most prolific serial killers, and how she got caught as one herself…
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