This is Book #2 of Detective Anna Gwynne series and my first read by this author.
The character of Anna is well portrayed. She is the Detective Inspector of a cold case unit. Her visits with a killer serving a life sentence are creepy. He looks on her as a daughter and gives her information that the police would not otherwise have had.
This story is mainly involved with the abduction and murder of young girls, and tracking down the person who has abducted another girl. A fast paced and enjoyable read and I look forward to more Detective Anna Gwynne stories.

Blood Runs Cold
by Dylan Young
5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
304 pages
The figure bent over the small grave and lowered in the black bag. Adult bones would have been heavier. Just a few spadefuls of earth and the secret was hidden…On a bright spring morning, walkers find a tattered plastic bag containing human remains half-buried in the rolling hills of Somerset. The bones belong to Rosie Dawson, a little girl who disappeared ten years ago. Detective Anna Gwynne is back at work after a case that nearly cost her her life. The trail is stone cold, but Anna will stop at nothing to find the killer, and escape thoughts of her own dark past.Then another little girl is abducted near a river bank on the hottest day of the year, and her sister can’t remember anything about the man who took her. Nobody thinks the cases are connected, but then Anna finds a photo of her that matches an old one of Rosie. In the same dark room. The same concrete walls. The same stony floor.The killer is bragging.With just two photos and a witness too young to help, can Anna find the killer in time to save a little girl’s life?

⭐ My Review ⭐
Wow what a A heart-pounding thriller . The first thing that drew me to pick this novel up was the title, and then I read the blurb and was intrigued. I’m really glad I read it because now I have a new author to follow. What an amazing very well written story. I loved it so much that i honestly never wanted it to end. Once I started this book, I couldn’t put it down. Blood Runs Cold is an expertly crafted story .The plot is suspenseful and thrilling at all times. It really is a roller coaster of a ride.All of the characters were very well developed, and done in such a way you really care about most of them. As always if you like the book you read please take the time to leave a review for the author in places like goodreads & Amazon. It does not have to be long. Just a few sentences saying you liked the book will do. Authors really appreciate every review they get !Thank you to NetGalley , the publisher and Dylan Young for a e copy of this book to read and review! Opinions are unbiased and entirely my own.

Blood Runs Cold by Dylan Young.

This is the second book in a series featuring Detective Anna Gwynne, who is back after an ordeal that happened to her during her previous case, book one of this police procedural. Although I quite happily jumped into this fast-paced plot, I couldn't help feeling like I was missing out on what happened previously! Nevertheless I raced through this as another girl is abducted in Somerset after the police had just uncovered a bag of bones belonging to a little girl who disappeared ten years earlier - it would appear that the killer is highlighting the fact that he never got caught the first time round!

Totally captivating and had me guessing right until the very last page. I thought it started slow, but the suspense built up fast and had be hooked!

Having really enjoyed Dylan Young's debut the Silent Girls I was really looking forward to reading Blood Runs Cold. Detective Anna Gwynne returns in this book and she is investigating the disappearance of a little girl Rosie Dawson who was abducted and murdered 10 years ago after her bones are found but they are getting nowhere until another girl gets abducted while walking with her sister and a photo links the 2 cases. This was a very fast paced intense read and kept me hooked and trying to guess until the very end.

Thank you to Bookouture, Dylan Young and NetGalley for the arc of Before She Falls my review is honest and unbiased in any way.

BLOOD RUNS COLD is the second book in the Detective Anna Gwynne Series by author Dylan Young. Having really enjoyed book one, I was anxious to start the second novel in the series. This is a killer crime thriller that is sure to please.

The books in the Detective Anna Gwynne Series Include:
The Silent Girls (Book 1)
Blood Runs Cold (Book 2)
Before She Falls (Book 3)

Eleven-year-old Blair Smearton had been kidnapped near a river bank, no-one can trace the man spotted taking her.

Detective Anna Gwynne is back at work with her cold case unit following a brutal attack sustained in book 1, that nearly cost her life. She’s investigating two historical cases, a rape case of a young woman, where a DNA match has identified an offender, and the death of ten-year-old Rosie Dawson, whose bones were found hidden in a hole in the ground ten years ago.

While Anna was working on these two cases, an eleven- year- old girl called Blair is kidnapped with her sister, Kirsty. Kirsty is found alive in the area…but no sign of Blair.

Were Rosie and Blair linked together?

Then a photo is found of Rosie that matches a photo they had of Rosie posted on a chat room online in a dark concrete room.

Anna must pull in her resources, with a contact who is an expert on the dark web, to help her find Blair before it is too late.

Time is running out…

Blood Runs Cold was fast paced with plenty of twists and turns, and an ending I did not see coming.... On to Book 3.

Many thanks to Bookouture via NetGalley for my digital copy.

I am a fan of this author's books so when I saw that this book, has latest release was due out I jumped at the chance to get my hands on a copy of the book!

I enjoyed the plot in this book and I loved meeting the characters again. Blood Runs Cold is the second book in the DI Anna Gwynne series and you are fine to read this one as a stand alone.

The pace is great as it opens brilliantly and the ending is great. I love how the solve the cases and the working relationships between Anna and her colleagues is great - it adds a lot to the storyline.

4.5 stars rounded up to 5 stars on Amazon and Goodreads - very highly recommended!!

Blood Runs Cold provides a promising start to a police procedural series, focusing around the cold case detective Anna Gwynne. While this book represents the second installment, I am sad to say I have not read the first, which is honestly the first time I have ever committed such an atrocity. Nevertheless, everything I needed to know from the first book was summarized within the pages of this book and made it easy to follow the characters' story arcs, so jumping in on book two is perfectly acceptable in this instance. On the other hand, this essentially spoiled everything that happened in the previous volume. 

In this book, the detectives are looking into a cold case involving the disappearance and murder of a young girl. Ten years later, the case is reopened after a photo is discovered of the girl on the darkweb. Another girl has recently gone missing, with a similar photo appearing online. Solving the mystery becomes a race against time in order to save the second girl. Is this an organized crime ring, or the work of one individual? 

I was pleasantly surprised with this book. I normally do not enjoy procedurals, but the cold case aspect drew me in. I wish there was more development revolving around Anna Gwynne (the protagonist and namesake of the series), though I expect that will come as the series progresses. While it was relatively easy to solve the case, I found that the highlight of the book came from the suspense surrounding the chase. There are some pretty upsetting subject matters brought forth in the book, yet nothing is described and it is left to the imagination brilliantly, which heightened my anxiety throughout the latter half of the book.

One of the key aspects that I feel will really bring this series into bloom is the character Hector Shaw, a convicted serial killer that is slowly leading Anna to his many bodies. Hector reminds me a lot of Red from The Blacklist television show, as he is exceedingly clever and calculated, skills which he uses to leverage actions in and out of his prison cell.

The ability of Young to compose such a gut-wrenching, face-paced story has piqued my interest, and I will certainly be reading the third installment in this series.

*I would like to thank the publisher, author, and NetGalley for providing an ARC copy of this book in exchange for an honest review*

This is the second book in the DI Anna Gwynne series, and having just finished book 1, I can honestly say, they do get better!
In this book she has to investigate the disappearance and abduction of a young girl, and soon discover that the child might be part of a larger pedophile ring.
Highly recommended!!

I seem to have read an awful lot of kidnapping stories lately, and as good as this was, it was lacking that ‘edge’ for me in comparison. However... I absolutely love the main character Anna Gwynne. Her character has developed a lot since book 1 (The silent girls), although I think the rest of her team kind of fade into the background in that you don’t really remember them afterwards. I would love to see the next book or two focus a bit more on them.

I will be recommending Dylan Young, I’m hopeful for book 3.

3.5 rounded up to 4 stars

Thanks to Bookouture for allowing me to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

I've never heard of Dylan Young, but I have every intention of reading all his books now. This was the second book in a series of murder mysteries involving DCI Anna Gwynne, and her crew. I have already bought the first book, and hope to get to it soon. Anna has an "in" with a locked up serial murderer. He helps her, and...actually, it's all kinds of messed up. No wonder Anna suffers from nightmares. The whodunit was great. Even better, just slightly was the locations. Wales, Southwest England. Lovely, and slightly scary. I'm ready for more of this, so bring it on! My thanks to Bookoutre, and Netgalley for allowing me to read this ARC for the price of a measly review!

I enjoyed the first book featuring Anna Gwynne and I was keen to see how she went forward following the events of the last book that left her severely injured.

In Blood Runs Cold, Anna returns to her job as part of the Major Crimes Review Task Force. Although this section deals with cold cases Anna spots a connection between a picture of a child who was abducted years ago and the resemblance to Blair, a girl who has recently gone missing in Edinburgh.

Against her better judgement to goes to see Hector Shaw- a 'lifer' imprisoned for murder but who seems to have a unique view on things as well as snippets of information he parts with like precious jewels.

Anna finds it hard at first to get back into the swing of things- especially as she has been saddled with a very gung-ho Detective Sergeant whose methods are light years away from her own. Regardless of staffing problems she races against time to save Blair before it's too late.

Having enjoyed the first in the series I was keen to read the second one. I thought this was even better than the first & am eagerly awaiting Book 3!

Thanks to Netgalley & the publisher for letting me read & review this book- five stars for me!

Picking up after Anna’s recovery from the events in the first series, The Silent Girls. Now she is tasked with solving a cold case of a young girl who disappeared and whose bones have been found by walkers. Meanwhile at the other end of the country a little girl goes missing.
Anna has her team around her including a new member, and you can always trust the police can’t you,? Colleagues past & present.
Great plot, good subplot development and Shaw is back too just to make things more interesting
You know it’s going to be a series you love when you give it its own collection on your Kindle
Great addition to the series, already looking forward to number 3

This second book in the DI Anna Gwynne with the MCRTF at Avon and Somerset is an abosrbing and well-written police procedural. Along with other members of her team, specifically DCs Justin Holder and Ryia Khosa, their unit looks at cold cases hoping that some fresh insight will bring closure. The old case they are working on is a child murder; Rosie Dawson had been kidnapped in 2008 when she was 10 years old. When her bones were found demonstrating a horrific murder story, the squad can't help but wonder if a recent abduction, that of Blair Smeaton from Ediburgh, could be related.

Although I typically like to read book of series in order, there is quite a bit of backstory within so that you could read it as a standalone if you like. In fact, I'd actually forgotten much of the first book anyway by the time I got to this one, and I was able to follow along just fine. The details of the investigation take the reader along as the squad reinterviews witnesses and reviews specifics about Rosie Dawson's case. Once they find that, indeed, there is a tenuous link between the old and new, the action gears up as suspects and persons of interest are examined. This particular story involves crimes against children involving the Dark Net and pay per view torture so not for the squeamish.
Again, Anna has an unlikely colleage in the imprisoned Harvey Shaw -- who seems to know the mind of a serial killer. And, could it be, that there is romance in the making for Anna?

Great characters (that I want to know more about) and lots of interesting information about the detestable underbelly of the Dark Web make this one that any fan of police procedurals won't want to miss. I can't wait for #3 in the series! Anna is growing on me, though some things about her I still find rather annoying!

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for this e-book ARC to read and review.

For me, this was a mixed bag. I enjoyed it, but not as much as I was expecting to. I enjoyed the character but the plot was a bit meh...

As I thoroughly enjoyed Dylan Young's first thriller, THE SILENT GIRLS, I knew that this was a book I simply had to read. BLOOD RUNS COLD is the second title in the Detective Anna Gwynne series. I liked Anna as a character as she had the baggage that comes with real life, and like the rest of the characters here, is realistic and well developed. I look forward to learning more about her in future books.

This is an intelligent police procedural that requires a little bit of thought, which I appreciate in my fiction from time to time. The plot draws you in with plenty twists in the tale and the ending which most people will not predict. There are three threads that merge to create the finale.

I would like to thank Dylan Young, Bookouture, and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Absolutely brilliant! Blood Runs Cold by Dylan Young was. This is my first book I have read in this Detective Anna Gwynne series. The first book was The Silent Girls and I will be purchasing this book to read as I enjoyed Blood Runs Cold
I loved Detective Anna Gwynne character and her team. I am looking forward reading more of her in this series and looking forward to Book 3. I found the ending of this book WoW, truly gripping and wanting more.

With thanks to Netgalley and Bookoutre for this ARC in exchange for an open and honest review.

This is the second book in the DI Anna Gwynne series, and while I eventually enjoyed the first one, this was a much more accomplished thriller, that kept me hooked from the start.

Set six months after the events of The Silent Girls, Anna has recently returned to work after recovering from the injuries sustained during that case. The task force are using new DNA and cyber evidence to review old cases, including that of a child abducted and murdered nearby nine years earlier. Meanwhile, in Edinburgh, 11 year old Blair has been abducted while walking on the street with her sister, the case all over the news. Anna has a new sergeant, the ambitious, pig-headed and arrogant Dave Woakes, whose lack of self discipline and bull in a china shop approach is winding everyone else up. Meeting one of the suspects in the earlier murder, a young emergency doctor, Anna has to decide if he is really the killer, or can she trust his personal theories as to what has been going on. And in the background lurks the fascinating Hector Shaw, taunting her with the promise of other buried victims, if she agrees to his demands.

There was quite a lot going on here, but I found it well paced and completely clear who was who. It was fairly obvious who the baddie was, but again, that didn’t matter to me. One criticism I did have is that the author completely spoils his first book by revealing, early and repeatedly, the identity of the first books killer, which may well put off any readers inspired to go back and read it if they found this first. I think he could have concealed it and still been able to reference the earlier cases. It didn’t matter for me as I read it very recently, in anticipation of this one.

I really like Anna as a character, and while her other team members are not yet well developed, feel there is plenty more to be revealed in future books. Her complex relationship with Hector raised my interest, I found the ending truly gripping, and the epilogue left me eagerly awaiting book three. I will however be taking a break from child abduction stories for some time, having read far too many recently.

Many thanks to Bookouture and NetGalley for the ARC.

Wow, what a read! This is the second book in the series featuring Detective Anna Gwynne. It can be read as a standalone book but if you have read Silent Girls you will be reunited with characters from that book, and adds to the enjoyment. Anna is back at work after nearly losing her life in her last case. The bones of a young girl who went missing 10 years ago are found and then another girl is abducted. Anna finds a photo that seems to connect both these cases. Can she solve the case before the second girl is murdered? This book will have you hooked. It is a gripping read and I can’t wait for book number 3 in the series.
Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.

A really good crime thriller and book 2 in the series. I loved the writing and the characters as well as the plot. I would recommend reading this by Dylan Young if you enjoy thrillers. The second book did not disappoint but read The Silent Girls first. Anna Gwynne is shaping up to be a formidable character. Thanks to Net Galley for my copy. I reviewed on Goodreads and Facebook. Amazon would not permit me to publish my review.

Love this series so much. I am excited for more books. I always fear that the second will not be as good as the first, or good enough to make me want to go on to the third and I'm happy to say that's not the case here.

Thanks to Netgalley for a copy in exchange for an honest review.