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- Sep 6, 2019
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The Fourth Victim - John Mead

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"THREE deaths, TWO grieving families ONE murder investigation team.....How Many KILLERS?....."

Synopsis

Whitechapel is being gentrified.

The many green spaces of the area, which typify London as a capital city, give the illusion of tranquility and clean air but are also places to find drug dealers, sexual encounters and murder…

Detective Sergeant Julie Lukula doesn’t dislike Inspector Matthew Merry but he has hardly set the world of the Murder Investigation Team East alight.

And, it looks as if the inspector is already putting the death of the young female jogger, found in the park with fatal head injuries, down to a mugging gone wrong.

The victim deserves more.

However, the inspector isn’t ruling anything out - the evidence will, eventually, lead him to an answer

My Review

This was a fantastic read! an absolutely brilliant police procedural.

Everything about the story felt so real This is down to the fantastic writing of which I cannot wait to read more of, the Whitechapel area, the characters and the situations I just felt like I was there!

The story story follows the murders of three girls with no apparent link to each other. Merry and his team are tasked with solving this case and with the twists and turns involved this case could turn in to the most complex of his career

This story pulled me in and gripped me and my attention until the very last page. If you enjoy police procedural s or just reads where everything feels so very real, then this is the next book for you!

Author Bio

John was born in the mid-fifties in East London, on part of the largest council estate ever built, and was the first pupil from his local secondary modern school to attend university.

He has now taken early retirement to write, having spent the first part of his life working in education and the public sector.

He was the director of a college, a senior school inspector for a local authority, and was head of a unit for young people with physical and mental health needs.

He has travelled extensively, from America to Tibet, and he enjoys visiting the theatre, reading and going to the pub.

It is, perhaps, no surprise that he is an avid ‘people watcher’ and loves to find out about people, their lives, culture and history.

When he is not travelling, going to the theatre or the pub; he writes.

Many of the occurrences recounted and the characters found in his novels are based on real incidents and people he has come across.

Although he has allowed himself a wide degree of poetic licence in writing about the main characters, their motivations and the killings that are depicted.

John is currently working on a series of novels set in modern day London. These police procedurals examine the darker side of modern life in the East End of the city.