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Now You See by Max Manning
Sep. 19th, 2021 09:52 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
Will you look her in the eyes, just before she dies?
I, Killer has posted two photos of his first victim online - Before Death and After Death. They’ve gone viral before DCI Fenton’s team even discovers the body.
Soon, another victim’s photo is similarly posted … and so begins the killer’s following.
DCI Fenton is determined to discover the identity of I, Killer. Then the murderer makes the hunt personal, and Fenton’s search becomes a matter of life of death for him and his daughter.
But as I, Killer’s body-count rises, his number of online followers is growing - and he loves to give his fans what they want …
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Max Manning’s crime thriller is a predictable affair with plodding dialogue and which leaves no cliche unturned, relies on the main characters acting idiotically to suit the plot and reduces the female characters to little more than corpses and plot devices. Fenton and Blake are drawn in broad terms while remaining oddly leaden so I couldn’t empathise with either. This seems to be the first in a planned series but I will not be reading on.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
I, Killer has posted two photos of his first victim online - Before Death and After Death. They’ve gone viral before DCI Fenton’s team even discovers the body.
Soon, another victim’s photo is similarly posted … and so begins the killer’s following.
DCI Fenton is determined to discover the identity of I, Killer. Then the murderer makes the hunt personal, and Fenton’s search becomes a matter of life of death for him and his daughter.
But as I, Killer’s body-count rises, his number of online followers is growing - and he loves to give his fans what they want …
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Max Manning’s crime thriller is a predictable affair with plodding dialogue and which leaves no cliche unturned, relies on the main characters acting idiotically to suit the plot and reduces the female characters to little more than corpses and plot devices. Fenton and Blake are drawn in broad terms while remaining oddly leaden so I couldn’t empathise with either. This seems to be the first in a planned series but I will not be reading on.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
