However, I found that it was very repetitive, I found that I was reading the same lines over and over, which is why I didn't give it 5.

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With the return of some of her best-loved characters and lashings of her usual grit, Cole fans will lap this up' Heat DCI Kate Burrows might be retired, but when the bodies of missing schoolgirls start turning up in Grantley, she's the first person DCI Annie Carr calls for help. Joseph/Bella and Christina – I am not going to say too much about these except I found Joseph to be a bit weak in his inability to be a man and make a choice. Bella is one crazy b*tch! Loved how that storyline panned out! 😱 and poor Christine – right place, wrong time in life….that is all I am going to say about that! The side plot is as uninspired as it is meaningless. It's obvious who the author wants you to feel sorry for in the affair...but, I'm not buying it. It just comes across like misandry dressed up as drama. officialmartinacole - I want the next one, as soon as humanly possible please!! ...And don't even think about changing narrators!!!

A serial killer is in town and the race is on for DCI Kate Burrows. Stop the killer before more innocent girls die... Wow! The killer is one messed up mofo! Nothing will sway the killer’s view that what they do is for all the right reasons- everyone else’s fault – the victim’s are “asking for it” SCARY!! I loved Cole's earlier books, particularly Burrows and the whole taboo of a copper hooking up with a criminal. Now Burrows is out of the police business and Pat is mostly retired things are going well when Pat has a chap claiming to be his son. Pat is shrewd and suspicious of course but the idea of a family brings it's own happiness and problems.

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Not sure what anyone else has been reading, but there was no suspense, no drama, and anyone should be able to work out who the perpetrator is by about half way through the book. The actual reveal is comical beyond belief and it simply felt as though Martina had run out of any ideas on how to actually finish the book. I started by liking this book. I thought it had potential. A good little investigation. Oh! I was wrong.But please be advised, the following extract contains strong language which may cause offence and is not suitable for children. Wow. I live in a world where people read this, and then give it 5 stars. We're all doomed I tell you. Doomed ! As a massive fan of Martina Cole books and having read/loved the previous Kate Burrow books 1 to 3, I couldn't read to lose myself into this fourth story featuring DI Kate Burrows.