Today I’m joining the blog tour for His Next Angel. My review is written with thanks to Zoe O’Farrell for inviting me on the blog tour and to the author for my copy of the book.
Blurb:
When evidence is found next to the battered body of a nineteen-year-old girl, Detective Inspector Gemma Reign is convinced she’ll have the killer behind bars in no time. However, the rugged North Devon coastal town of Combe Helen is shaken when another member of their community is found dead – another battered body and another clue. DI Reign and her team soon realise things are not as they seem as they follow the killer’s deadly trail.
When the next victim on the killer’s hit list is revealed, it becomes a race against time to stop him striking again. DI Reign is struggling with her own personal loss and with the pressure mounting, she’s scared she’s failing the local community and the woman she’s sworn to keep safe – the woman who’s next to die.
Review:
Although His Next Angel is written under a different name, I’ve enjoyed everything JL Brooke has written previously and I was excited to see her turn her hand to a police procedural novel. Detective Inspector Gemma Reign is definitely a character with potential: she’s determined but compassionate and there is a vulnerable side to her which JL Brooke is not afraid to show us. Her back story is really interesting and I’m looking forward to discovering how this develops as the series continues. Gemma has a really supportive team who all work well together and I’m keen to learn more about them as the series continues too.
His Next Angel is set in the fictional town of Combe Helen in Devon. It has a very close knit community and this means there are several connections between the victims and suspects, and sometimes the police officers too! These connections mean that there could be a lot of suspects for the detectives to wade through and this makes it interesting to try and guess what had happened.
As there are several victims and suspects, it did take some time for each one to be investigated. His Next Angel is therefore not as fast paced as some of the other police procedural I have read, and this means that the tension dissipates slightly, particularly towards the middle of the novel. However, this is restored towards the end as the story reaches it’s climax.
The novel ends on a cliffhanger so I am excited to see what happens in the next instalment!
His Next Angel is available from Amazon.
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