Today I’m joining the blog tour for A Soul For A Soul. My review is written with thanks to Zoe O’Farrell for inviting me on the tour and to the publisher for my copy of the book.

Blurb:

The syndicate have taken everything from her. It’s time to take them down—or die trying.

DCI Kate Young never meant to shoot Superintendent John Dickson at the reservoir that night—even if, as a scheming corrupt cop and head of the shady syndicate, he probably had it coming. But now Kate has photographic evidence that someone else knows her terrible secret…

Tormented by guilt and the voices of the dead, Kate is desperate to unmask the rest of the corrupt officers before her own sins catch up with her. When DI Harriet Khatri, awaiting trial for the murder of Kate’s mentor, claims she was framed by Dickson’s syndicate, Kate reluctantly agrees to help in the hope of finding answers.

Meanwhile, DI Emma Donaldson finds herself on the hunt for a double murderer—a man who incapacitates his victims with a powerful narcotic called Devil’s Breath. Desperate to measure up to her role-model boss, Emma finds herself hurled into the deep end in more ways than one…

While Kate’s grip on reality wavers and the syndicate closes in, and with the mystery killer taking a special interest in Emma, could this be the case that defeats both detectives?

Review:

I have absolutely loved this series from the beginning and A Soul For A Soul does nothing to change that. In this novel, Kate Young is now a Detective Chief Inspector, and whilst that means she’s not at the coal face of the juicy investigations so much, it does give her the opportunity to focus on the investigation that’s been running through the whole series, and that’s arguably more tense and exciting than the murder investigation in this novel. However, this means that this novel is unsuitable to be read as a standalone, but you should absolutely go back and start the series from the beginning because it’s fantastic.

The detectives who were previously members of her team, Emma Donaldson and Morgan Meredith, are now acting Detective Inspectors and I loved the opportunity to see how they managed their own team and flourished as a result of being mentored by Kate. Emma and Morgan’s relationship has also developed over the series and I was interested to see how this would work out too.

With every novel Carol Wyer writes, the plotting becomes more complex and intelligent, and although it keeps me on my toes, I absolutely love it as I try and work out the answers before the detectives. The investigation in A Soul For A Soul showcases a particularly unusual method and I was really gripped by it. The underlying plot is also complex, especially as Carol Wyer includes the voices in Kate’s head as part of the narrative, more so in this instalment than previous ones, and I really hoped that Kate would be able to resolve this.

If you read my blog regularly, you will know that I absolutely love a twist and A Soul For A Soul has one that made my head spin!

A Soul For A Soul is available from Amazon.

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