5 Stars from me ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Love, love, LOVE the DCI John Barton series and I am always genuinely thrilled when I hear that Ross Greenwood has penned a new one.
Things I want to know – can I get an invite to the Barton family Christmas dinner?
Can I become friends with Barton’s wife (I don’t mind dog sitting)?
Can I join Barton’s team?
What do you mean none of it is real?!
Anyway, the book, the author has found yet another depraved and tortured individual who is hell bent on offing as many people as possible, at what should be a magical time of the year. Not ideal.
But as followers of this series will know, there might be less of Barton’s belly these days but the instincts remain and Barton is a seasoned hand at flushing out dark and dastardly killers and it isn’t long before he is hot on the heels of The Christmas Killer, albeit a little too close for comfort at times.
As the death toll rises, the clues drop into place and it soon becomes a race against time to catch the killer before he strikes again.
For as long as Ross Greenwood writes them, I’ll be here to read them – and if you’ve enjoyed the DCI Barton series then I am sure you’ll love the equally superb Norfolk Murders too.
Blurb: A new, twists-galore DI Barton thriller from bestselling author Ross Greenwood.
The winter holidays finally look set to bring a white Christmas, but the beautiful snow hides horrors beneath. When a man is found cruelly tortured and murdered, the Major Crimes team is already stretched thin through illness and stunned by an internal corruption investigation.
DCI John Barton hesitantly leaves his sabbatical to take the case, immediately confronting the same dark secrets that forced him away. The dead man was a loner and the perfect target, but when there is another savage murder, Barton begins to suspect that the killer is delving into the victims’ pasts for a very specific, terrifying reason. And time is running out.
As the blizzard isolates the city, Barton realises they aren’t pursuing a festive fanatic; they are hunting something far worse. With the department gripped by ice and paranoia, Barton knows he is getting closer to the truth, but will he be fast enough?
Because if he isn’t, not everyone will make it home for Christmas.
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