Book Synopsis:
DI Eve Hunter is back in the edge-of-your-seat new detective thriller from Deborah Masson, winning author of the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year 2020.
A young man, the son of an influential businessman, is discovered dead in his central Aberdeen apartment.
Hours later, a teenaged girl with no identification is found hanged in a suspected suicide.
As DI Eve Hunter and her team investigate the two cases, they find themselves in a tug-of-war between privilege and poverty; between the elite and those on the fringes of society.
Then an unexpected breakthrough leads them to the shocking conclusion: that those in power have been at the top for too long – and now, someone is going to desperate lengths to bring them down…
Can they stop someone who is dead set on revenge, no matter the cost?
Out For Blood is available in ebook now and in paperbackback on the 10th December 2020. You can purchase or pre-order your copy using the link below or through your local indie bookstore.
My Review:
I was a huge fan of this author’s debut novel so I was incredibly excited to read more from her, though a little nervous as surely she couldn’t write another book as brilliant. Well I pleased to say that yes, yes she can!
DI Hunter is a wonderful main character, a police woman with heart who really cares about getting justice for her victims. This often gets her into trouble with her senior colleagues however, especially when it causes her to lose her temper with members of the public. Her relationship with her team was interesting to read about and I liked the way they worked together. There is a lot of trust and mutual affection there, making it hard when one if the members of the team is asked to spy on Hunter as she leads the investigation. As the story continues we get to learn a little more about the detectives personal lives which I found very interesting as it gave me an insight into why they might be acting the way they are.
One of the things that I most like about this author is that she doesn’t shy away from tough, emotional storylines or about putting her characters in harm’s way which makes the reader unable to guess what’s going to happen. This book is no exception with the harrowing subject of human trafficking being included in the storyline. I found it hard to read about the awful situations that vulnerable people can find themselves in and I often found myself getting quite teary as I read. How people can do that to other human beings is beyond me and I found myself getting quite anxious about their survival, particularly one character who was pregnant but I think that was more to do with person experience making me more sensitive to it. I had to keep reading to find out what would happened to them.
This book does start off a little slowly as the author introduces the reader to the case and we get reacquainted with the characters again but it soon picks up speed after a twist makes things very intriguing indeed. I soon found myself completely absorbed in the story and kept attempting to hide myself in the kitchen away from the kids so I could read a bit more! The ending was brilliant and I can’t wait to read more from this author in the future. I’ll be recommending this book to everyone who liked gripping, emotional and absorbing crime thrillers.
Huge thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me onto the blog tour and to Transworld for my copy of this book via Netgalley.
About The Author:
Deborah Masson was born and bred in Aberdeen, Scotland. Always restless and fighting against being a responsible adult, she worked in several jobs including secretarial, marketing, reporting for the city’s freebie newspaper and a stint as a postie – to name but a few.
Through it all, she always read crime fiction and, when motherhood finally settled her into being an adult (maybe even a responsible one) she turned her hand to writing what she loved. Deborah started with short stories and flash fiction whilst her daughter napped and, when she later welcomed her son into the world, she decided to challenge her writing further through online courses with Professional Writing Academy and Faber Academy. Her debut novel, Hold Your Tongue, is the result of those courses.
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