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| Paperback to be published 24 September 2014 No Exit Press Available now on Kindle |
Race to Death, begins
with a suspicious death at York Racecourse, which, for newly promoted DI Ian
Peterson, starts a convoluted crime search. For Peterson, lately transferred to
York CID, not only has to cope with a new detective team, but also with a crime
scene which offers little in the way of clues or explanation. What then follows
is a convoluted and complicated crime story which uses the initial crime scene
as a starting block for other more complicated deaths. For Peterson and his
team, there seems little correlation between the crimes but gradually truths
are exposed and strands start to come together.
I enjoyed the story, it’s an easy
read and yet the twist and turns are complex and well crafted and there are more than enough red herrings to keep you guessing until the end. The
characterisation is particularly well done and I liked the way story started to
piece together with just enough tension to keep the momentum alive. The ending
of the story left everything nicely wrapped up but with the added promise of
more to come from DI Peterson.
There is no doubt that the author
is an accomplished crime writer, she has already had a successful run with her Geraldine
Steel series of crime novels. It is interesting, now, to see her turn her attention to
Ian Peterson who for so long worked in Steel’s shadow as her detective sergeant.
In this, his own series, DI Peterson is newly promoted and transferred from
London to York. His wife Bev, also gets more of a starring role, and as she learns
to cope with living in a new town we get
more of her personality, and start to piece together the dynamics of them as a couple.
This is the second book in the DI
Ian Peterson series, and whilst it is more enjoyable to start the series at the
beginning, it is by no means essential as the author provides enough clues to
able to pick up the finer points of the back story.
My thanks to Real Readers and No
Exit Press for my review copy of Race to Death.
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