The Art of Death

This book follows DI Grace Archer as she and her team are on the case of a killer in London who displays his victims.

This book I found just average. Saying that I didn't dislike the book just didn't love it.

The story is a police procedure and it's not my favourite genre. Like other books in the genre the story has a very similar pattern, the detective with a past, a likeable sidekick, killer on the loose, killer tries to kill detective.

The plot was ok and something a little different and the story did have a steady pace. There was enough to hold my interest although the killer was easily guessed.

First book by this author for me and if a series were to emerge for me I won't be continuing just because I don't really like police show more procedures.

Thank you to the publisher via Readers First for the opportunity to read the book. show less

I wanted to like it but it just fell flat.
I didn't really get the point of the transphobia - was it to make the character saying it look like a bad person? Cos he did without it anyway.

And the killer reveal was anticlimactic and it had been pretty obvious from the first time that character entered the story that he was going to be someone suspicious. Maybe I'm ruined from reading too much Jane Casey and MW Craven!