This is a good crime thriller series and I thoroughly enjoyed this well written and well plotted mystery
Recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine

I would like to thank Netgalley and Joffe Books for an advance copy of The Lingfield Point Killings, the third novel to feature DIs Max Byrd and Orion Tanzy, set in Darlington.

A case of arson kills Danny Walters, his wife and two sons. Byrd and Tanzy are struggling for a motive, but know it’s not good when a video of the fire is posted on the internet. Then they learn that an unconscious women is balanced on the balcony rail of an upper storey flat and have to watch as she falls. At the same time the team are investigating the disappearance of four young women.

I thoroughly enjoyed The Lingfield Point Killings, which is a tense, action packed read with several twists and turns. The plotting is imaginative, that’s my way of saying no realism involved, but who cares when it’s exciting and compulsive? In fact, I was taken aback by some of the developments, while some of them were more guessable. The author is taking no prisoners in this novel, so it should be noted that there is a high level of cruelty in the novel, not necessarily explicit, but certainly implicit.

The novel is told from various points of view, Byrd and Tanzy obviously, but also the four missing women and their abductors. There is little from the murderer except the videos and some messages, no hint of his thoughts or motive. I liked that as it gives the reader something to chew on. Surprisingly he is identified early on in the novel, but finding him, working out what he will do next and catching him are much more difficult. The plot is all about the twists and they’re great, keeping the reader on the edge of their seat, making them want to read more and gasping at the audacity of some of them.

The Lingfield Point Killings is a good read that I have no hesitation in recommending.