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A review by faysieh
Snakes and Ladders by Victoria Selman
5.0
I thoroughly enjoyed this thriller. It got me up twice in the middle of the night to read on which is usually a sure sign a reader is hooked!
I hadn't read the two books in the series prior to this offering and although I will now want to read the other books, it did not prevent me from enjoying the efforts of Ziba MacKenzie as a standalone story.
Yet again this female protagonist is a tough woman, a profiler working for Scotland Yard who has lost her husband to a shooting and now is wary about getting too close to Jack Wolf, a newspaper journalist. But as a profiler she doesn't work quite the same way as the Police do and it is fascinating how she pieces together information about the Pink Rose Killer using behavioural analysis.
The plot was sinister, chilling but not too gruesome. Initially I thought this book would be too scary to read, but it really isn't!
There are so many characters whose motives seem suspicious and as a consequence the reader is left desperately trying to guess who the perpetrator is and what further mind games Dr Vernon Sange, a notorious serial killer currently residing in a high security prison, is going to play next.
Some of the 'clues' in terms of the literary references went a bit over my head and I am not sure I would have ever suddenly made the leap Ziba did into knowing who the killer was and their connection to Sange, but nevertheless this is a thriller I thoroughly enjoyed.
With no neat ending I am hoping there will be a fourth book in this series!
I hadn't read the two books in the series prior to this offering and although I will now want to read the other books, it did not prevent me from enjoying the efforts of Ziba MacKenzie as a standalone story.
Yet again this female protagonist is a tough woman, a profiler working for Scotland Yard who has lost her husband to a shooting and now is wary about getting too close to Jack Wolf, a newspaper journalist. But as a profiler she doesn't work quite the same way as the Police do and it is fascinating how she pieces together information about the Pink Rose Killer using behavioural analysis.
The plot was sinister, chilling but not too gruesome. Initially I thought this book would be too scary to read, but it really isn't!
There are so many characters whose motives seem suspicious and as a consequence the reader is left desperately trying to guess who the perpetrator is and what further mind games Dr Vernon Sange, a notorious serial killer currently residing in a high security prison, is going to play next.
Some of the 'clues' in terms of the literary references went a bit over my head and I am not sure I would have ever suddenly made the leap Ziba did into knowing who the killer was and their connection to Sange, but nevertheless this is a thriller I thoroughly enjoyed.
With no neat ending I am hoping there will be a fourth book in this series!