Today is the final stop on the Chris Carter blogathon. My review of The Death Watcher is written with thanks to Tracy Fenton for inviting me on the tour.

Blurb:

When a routine autopsy on what looked like a straightforward hit-and-run leads the LA Chief Medical Examiner, Dr Carolyn Hove, to discover some puzzling inconsistencies, she calls in Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD Ultra Violent Crimes Unit. Not only did Dr Hove discover that the death wasn’t caused by a hit-and-run, but she also found indications that the victim had been severely tortured prior to death.

What no one realises is that what Dr Hove has stumbled upon is just the tip of the iceberg and it will lead Hunter and his partner, Carlos Garcia, on the trail of a twisted and clever killer who hides in plain sight. A serial killer no one even knew existed – a killer who has always operated under the radar, expertly disguising every gruesome murder as an accidental death.

But with no leads as to why the victim was targeted, the investigation comes to a standstill, until another body is discovered with an alternative cause of death.

What becomes clear is that this serial killer isn’t going to stop – unless Hunter and Garcia can get to him.

But how do you investigate a murder when you have no victims? How do you catch a killer who leaves behind no crime scene? How do you stop a ghost who no one can prove even exists?

Review:

I can’t believe I am reviewing the final book in the blogathon already! I have loved every single page of it, and The Death Watcher is no different. Once again, Chris Carter has written a really creative story with incredibly vivid descriptions that kept me hooked the whole way through.

The characters of Robert Hunter and Carlos Garcia are very well developed and I’ve enjoyed getting to know them better as the series has progressed. Both their working relationship and their friendship is portrayed with care, and it makes me really want to root for them and urge them to catch the perpetrators of the crimes in the series.

As always, Hunter and Garcia are dealing with some very depraved individuals, and the descriptions of the crimes are often very shocking. This obviously won’t be for everyone, but for me, I like the way this makes it really clear what is happening and brings the reader into it.

The investigation leads Hunter and Garcia down some interesting paths which were fascinating to me for personal reasons, and I couldn’t wait to find out how Chris Carter resolved the situations in which the detectives found themselves. There is always a sense of danger, which kept me on my toes, and always made me want to keep reading.

Chris Carter has become one of my favourite authors and I can’t wait to read his next work!

The Death Watcher is available from Amazon.

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