From there it was a roller coaster ride (in that it made a lot of people feel decidedly unwell) from web designer to web manager, lead programmer, team lead and other assorted technical bollocks with three different companies, eventually ending up as a project manager for a global IT company. Anyway, there were also parts of this book that made me wonder if I'd lost my mind so look out for that. One thing is for sure, once you get over the initial shock, it’s a wild ride, very original and definitely edgy, but will you applaud or jeer at the end?

In the mix is old case where a young boy murdered a homeless person, he been released from prison and seeks out McVeigh for help.As an author myself, I love deconstructing the plot lines and following the different strands through. For the first two thirds of this book, I was in 5-star territory and then, for a while, it felt like I was on a roller-coaster and the plot went a little haywire.

I hope it may be the start of a series - there were certainly story lines there which could be followed up. Released after serving 16 years in prison he is now seeking help from Lucy but is adamant he still won't give up the name of his accomplice. He’s now 27 and has recently been released back into the community, but he claims that ‘They’ are after him, whoever ‘They’ may be.Next up was an elongated spell in Westhill -- a small suburb seven miles west of Aberdeen -- where I embarked upon a mediocre academic career, hindered by a complete inability to spell and an attention span the length of a gnat's doodad. It is made clear that MacVeigh has a traumatic past, she is suffering from PTSD, for which she is forced to see her no good therapist, we do eventually learn the details of the 'event', something she is not allowed to forget about, with Sarah Black hellbent on ensuring she continues to pay. There are genuine moments of chill as you’d expect from this author and it looks like it’s shaping up for a jaw dropping ending. The Dunk is a humorous character, dressed all in black like an international man of mystery, yet scarily unfit when it comes to climbing stairs. The Bloodsmith has been on the rampage for seventeen months and the police are no nearer figuring out who he is or how he selects his victims.

We honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' continuous connection to Country, waters, skies and communities. It has been 17 months since The Bloodsmith killed his last victim, but there have been no leads whatsoever, and with the torrid media coverage, the police hierarchy are washing their hands of Operation Maypole and the stench of failure associated with it.

And if this not enough already, Lucy is tormented by her own memories, including the loss of her parents and her best friend after an event so gruesome she doesn’t want to think about it anymore. However, the book is very long, it’s quite random at times and feels very disconnected, then chuck in a lot of characters, add in some very silly, juvenile dialogue that doesn’t match the very dark events then you begin to get the picture.