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Brilliantly written, kept me on the edge of my seat guessing what was going to happen next and continuously had my coming up with my own theories. Had a small handful of mentions to the past book, but nothing which had me too confused and meant I could read this one without having read the first.

Was very enjoyable to have a crime novel written from an outsiders POV as opposed to someone within the police force, I really enjoyed the conflict.

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adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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3.0

Megan Carver is missing. By the time David Raker finds out the teenager is gone, months have elapsed. Still, as someone who is adept at finding lost people, he agrees to take the case. He gleans whatever amount of information he can from her distraught parents and from friends, and then he digs deeper and finds that Megan was both a brilliant student and pregnant at the time of her disappearance. Her mother had an inkling that she was pregnant but refused to believe it. He learns that Megan and her school friends used to attend a youth club every now and then, and he visits the place and obtains security camera videos. He scans it closely and finds one individual in the club who takes an inordinately high interest in Megan. As he digs deeper, David learns there are other young women missing as well. He begins to draw a connection among them. They seem to link somehow to the life of a despicable serial killer who captured and killed young women in London a hundred years earlier.

But of course, that's not even possible. What if a modern-day serial killer were attempting to pattern his work after the one from a century ago? The author draws you into this book and keeps you moving forward without wanting to stop. This is one of those books that you need to pay attention to, but only because the action is relatively speedy, and you can't allow your mind to wander much lest you miss something important. The chapters are snappy and short, and many of them end with either wonderful cliffhangers or fascinating revelations.

Weaver has created some graphically violent scenes here. If you are squeamish about violence done by one human to another, this may be a book you'll want to let pass without downloading it. I reviewed the first book in the series on or around March 23rd of this year, and I feel bad that it has taken this long for me to read the second book. I enjoy this series enough that my visit with the next book should come sooner than the time between the first two.

I am still dictating these reviews, so please accept my sincere apology if there are errors that distract you or cause you any difficulty. I tried diligently to find those and uproot them, but I can't promise perfection.

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4.0

I managed to miss the 1st of this series of books but the author didn't give to much away to stop me reading it later. I liked this very much, another book I found difficult to put down. A couple of reviews I have read said that it was difficult to warm to the lead character David Raker but I found him to be quite likeable. At times it was creepy and I definitely wouldn't go into the woods. Looking forward to reading more.

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4.0

A one day read.

I truly don't remember reading book #1 but apparently I did. I enjoyed this one a lot, with lots of twists and a satisfying ending.

And then I went and put the rest of the series on my TBR list.

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