Tuesday, December 31, 2019

The Mermaid's Scream

DCI Gerry Heffernan and DI Wesley Peterson have been called out to a caravan site where a couple have taken their own lives.  It all seems straight forward; a double suicide.  Peterson isn’t sure it was suicide, and when he examines the foil from a champagne bottle, which the couple had consumed his feelings are confirmed.

A few days later Peterson has to handle the case of a farmer accidentally killed by his own shotgun.  It’s the same farmer who owned the caravan site.  Coincidence or otherwise?

It’s at this time that Peterson’s son Michael and his friend find a body in the woods.  The friend convinces Michael to not call the police, but Michael’s mother, Pam has suspicions and brings in Peterson to confront the lad.  Can evidence found with this body lead them to a killer?

Author Kate Ellis has written a very twisted plot that causes confusion for the reader, so that the reader doesn’t know who is responsible for what killing until the final pages.  A good quick read.

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